Take a peek: blogs I love

Here are the links to my five favourite blogs:

http://www.thesartorialist.com/

The pioneer of fashion photography in the blogging arena, Scott Schuman's 'The Sartorialist' is my very favourite fashion blog. In creating this blog, he sought to develop a two-way dialogue about the world of fashion and its relationship with every day life. Most of his images are raw street-photography shots, echoing how the eyes of the fashion industry view everyday trends.

http://www.garancedore.fr/en/

A French illustrator and keen fashionista, Garance Dore's blog began simply as an arena for the display of her drawings and snippets of her daily life in an attempt to connect more directly with readers. It has now grown into an extremely successful site, with her love of fashion at its core. Inspired by The Sartorialist, her focus is now chiefly on fashion photography, shooting international editorials and ad campaigns. Her blog is her source of freedom.

http://www.stylelist.com/

Stylelist is a go-to blog for all things from fashion and celebrities, to journalism and culture. It is a hybrid of photographic pieces, journalistic entries, advice forums, videos, news, design and entertainment. I love how it employs a range of interest areas within which all different voices are heard. It is very socially-aware and it accumulates the knowledge of professionals from every field. Always a good read!

http://elephantine.typepad.com/elephantine/page/1/

I stumbled across Rachel Ball's blog, Elephantine, only recently. However, it has now become a daily fixture in my blog crawl! An endearingly simplistic and 'pretty' blog, she uses her page as a forum for collecting and sharing the things she likes, specifically fashion, accessories, housewares and photography. Her history in design evidences itself in every element of her blog. I love her unique and natural photography, beautifully shot videos, and 'Friday Fiction' - a weekly installation in which she writes very short narratives which are always a pleasure to read.

http://lingeredupon.blogspot.com.au/

I found this blog, Lingered Upon, by clicking on its link which was featured on Elephantine's favourite blog list, and it has become one of my new faves too! Alice Gao, the blog's creator, says the title was taken from one of her favourite T.S. Elliot poems, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". This literary reference immediately had me interested! She said that in this arena the words lend themselves to her lingering upon a moment, a simple reality, and capturing it in photograph form - "photos and accumulations of small realities", she says. Her images are absorbing, her words beautifully crafted and the layout homely and clean.

Jouir!!