There comes a time in a little websites life when it has to expand and grow.

We’re very happy to announce we’re expanding iBlogFashion to include Australian beauty bloggers under the banner of iBlogBeauty.

• Find out how to take part here.
• Follow @iBlogBeautyAUS on Twitter

And of course, help us spread the word!

Some media outlets choose to ignore the blogger revolution, but not Style.com. The pioneer of up-to-the-minute coverage of international fashion shows, they have paid homage to the international fashion blogging sensations in a pictorial piece entitled: WE WILL NOT BE DELETED, great moments in fashion blogging history

It gives interesting insight into some of the hottest stories in fashion blogging, pre September 2009.

Check it out here.

There was an interestingly biased commentary piece published in Australia’s premier newspaper The Australian last week where Vogue.com.au’s Online Editor Damien Woolnough called fashion bloggers “Nikon-toting bottom feeders on the fashion food chain”.

Needless to say I was less than impressed and was glad when Fairfax journalist Georgina Robinson wrote a piece for Sydney Morning Herald about French fashion blogger Garance Dore and pointed out some of the discrepancies in Woolnough’s attack.

Obviously not all former print media members are open to fashion bloggers, even if they now ply their trade by running a fashion website whose main source of traffic is through their user-generated content on their popular fashion forums.

Canada’s Holt Renfrew honored the likes of The Sartorialist, BryanBoy, Garance Dore, Sea of Shoes, Jak & Jil and I Want I Got with window displays dedicated to their blogs… and locally Sportsgirl have joined in the fashion blogger celebrations with three blogger styled windows this month.

And the lucky bloggers? Hayley Hughes of Fashion Hayley is featured in the Chapel Street store in South Yarra, VIC, Kat George of Style Lines is featured in the Chadstone store in Chadstone, VIC and lastly Alexandra Spencer of 4th and Bleeker received a window in the Paddington store in Paddington, NSW.

All three were able to create a one-off installation in their Sportsgirl window to bring their blog and inspirations to life.

Congratulations ladies!

Before you go and download the form to add/amend your site listing we have few rules we’re putting in place.

• You must be based in Australia and ‘blog fashion’
• All blogs listed in the iBlogFashion Directory must supply a calendar month’s statistics from a reliable source (Google Analytics is preferred)
• At the least, a contact email and state location must be supplied.

That’s all!

Now is that’s all cool with you, download our latest form here (.doc, 54kb) and fill in all your details. The more thorough you are the better!

All forms must be email to me at helen@iblogfashion.com by Friday March 12th, 2010.

Here’s an exciting local ‘article watch‘. We love articles about fashion bloggers and fashion blogging in general, so when we heard Marie Claire Australia’s Mobile Editor, Jade Warne, had written a piece about fashion bloggers for the April 2010 issue we couldn’t wait to get our hands on it. And just as the issue is about to his newsstands tomorrow, we received a copy via email! It features the usual suspects like BryanBoy, Tavi and The Sartorialist, as well as our own Aussie shoe blogger Matt Jordan of Imelda. Pick up your copy of Marie Claire Australia tomorrow – we’ll link to the article as soon it appears on the Marie Claire website!

Learn more about the iSpyStyle Fashion Career Workshop and book online here.

I couldn’t have said it better myself. Thanks @TeenVogue! The iBFcon they are talking about is Independent Fashion Blogger’s Evolving Influence fashion blogger conference held over the weekend in New York City (during New York Fashion Week)

Fashion bloggers are here to stay, and we’re all different.

We don’t all take photos of ourselves or other people’s stylish looks, we don’t all report on the latest runway looks or fashion trends. Take the time to learn a little about us and we will do the same for you. We outlined the different types of fashion bloggers in our launch issue of iBlogFashion. If you missed it you can download it here or read some of it here.

Here’s some interesting articles to take note of:

• The Rise Of The Style Blogger by Forbes.
  “Forget rock stars, models and actresses. Fashion bloggers are today’s style icons.” The article talks about the usuals (BryanBoy, Tavi, The Sartorialist, Jane Aldridge and Garance Dore but also mentions the liks of Ashley Simko, Tiffany Tse, Lucrecia Chan and Nadia Sarwar.
• Young, fat and fabulous by The Guardian
  “Big women have fought back online with fashion blogs that the industry is starting to take notice”
• Bloggers aren’t replacing ‘old school’ journalists on the front row by SASSYBELLA.com
  Despite the rumblings from magazine and newspaper fashion journalists, fashion bloggers aren’t given front row seats at every show. Sometimes it’s about the view from the 7th row or even standing room.

We were asked recently if we would rank all the blogs in the Australian’s Fashion Bloggers Database, our answer was: not right now. But there are plenty of fashion blog rankings around who do the job for you, albeit on an international level – which is not necessarily a bad thing as it gives you an idea of where our Australian fashion blogs stand in the international scene.

• Signature9 launched Style99 last year, with the aim to come up with a list of the most influential style blogs in the world. The top 99 are available for public viewing but if you want the full list of 400+ style blogs, you will have to fork out USD$99 for the list. Blogs are ranked according to a range of factors, including: Yahoo links, PageRank, Unique Domain Links, Alexa Points, Delicious Points and Google Blog Links to come up with the final number. I’m pleased to say that my own SASSYBELLA.com is the only Australian fashion blog to makes the list, scraping in at 98 for the month of January 2010.

• Wikio have recently launched a monthly ranking system for the most widely referenced fashion blogs in the world. Of course the likes of The Sartorialist, Style Rookie and Style.com’s Style File rank highly, but I was very surprised (and pleased) to find that SASSYBELLA.com came in number 18 so far this February.

• If you’re looking for a more local list, we have BlogChicks.com.au who put together a list of Top 100 Australian Women Bloggers. Although it hasn’t been updated since last year, the current rankings judge blogs on their Technorati and Alexa rankings with four iBlogFashion blogs making the list: Karen Cheng’s Snippets of Life (9), SASSYBELLA.com (24), Lady Melbourne (46), Individual Chic (98).