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Two of our Darling Designers are in the running for Daily Candy’s Sweetest Thing 2008. They need and would greatly appreciate your vote. Take a few seconds, put down your coffee, stop thinking about what else it is you need to do today and VOTE! They would do it for you!
Alison Woodward of Reverie, is up for Sweetest Thing in the category of Everywhere Style.
Karelle Levy of Krelwear is up for Sweetest Thing in the category of Miami Style.
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Help me out…send me your recaps, predictions, well wishes for the 2008/2009. I want to hear from everyone! I hope everyone has a safe and Happy New Year’s Eve!!!!!!!
26. ABlondAndATorch Happy New Year to you too!!! (shop her jewelry)
25. lkr – I predict we will all use the web to connect with vibrant, incredible people all over the world we never would have had the chance to meet! (visit her site Roeder Studios)
24. BlackRose84 - here’s my conclusion before 2009 is here.. I am shedding the old to embrace the new!! WELCOME NEW GOODBYE OLD!!
23. steelcloset - A Happy New Year from the Steel Crew! Keep up the good work! (and the website: Steel Closet)
22. Jil Nelson (Design Patois)- I predict that careful shopping has not even begun. Those of us who haven’t ever thought about prices finally are. I’m not looking for quantity (ok, except in shoes. . . ) but quality.
Wishing Smashing Darling and all of you a Happy New Year! In fact, I’m kicking out 2008.
21. breagrant says: in 2009, people will smile more and be nicer to each other. people will decide to be themselves more. we’ll laugh louder. ( to read her blog: Brea Grant Website)
20. JetSetGirls - I predict Americans will go on a shopping binge come Feb/March. We can only be good for so long! (visit the site Jet Set Girls)
19. Carrie Bell (madcapz) says: Here’s to a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2009!!
18. crosbyhearts (aka PR Couture) say: as many delicious surprises, swirls, fuzzy yurts, kisses and side aching laughter, uncoverings, love notes, and better breaths as can fit
17. M641Brand predicts that there will be an INDIE revolution. Talented individuals and small business will singlehandedly turn this market around! (twitter: M641Brand)
16. Modarling commented saying: This time last year darling babies screamed: “vote for us!” to San fran we went for some fun. Maybe we are toddlers now? 08 change, months of gyspy warmer climates, nyc move. Can’t predict 09, happy to watch it unfold before me.
May you welcome a new year however you please. No matter how, may it be filled with love and gratitude: tonight, tomorrow, and all year long.
15. Bianca Kasurinen is making a 2009 resolution to follow her heart, be healthy, design what she was made to design
14. Designer of Recycled by Hyena – @smashingdarling 2008: difficult but full of learning experiences. 2009: less difficult, more learning? Important : my dad fighting cancer
13. Our friend through Twitter JoeCascio: I predict both my son and I will get some stimulating employment in 2009. (oh, please!)
12. awwwwwww closetcaucus says: 
Happy New Year to you too! Writing a blog entry for Smashing Darling was one of my fav things in 2008!
11. We wishes from charise – All the Best to SmashingDarling and all the Darlings in the New Year! xoxo Charise Let’s get together soon!
10. I can’t forget the video style tips from Style Observer.
9. mikepratt @smashingdarling TYVM – We hope the same for our darlings. the motto for 2009 is “survive and thrive”
8. From our friend on twitter closetcaucus -Good Morning! Challenge for today: Learn about champagne http://tinyurl.com/6o5yn3
7. modbird @smashingdarling hmmm not sure,but would say 2008 was a year of cleansing (purging) unhealthy, dysfunctional things-whether chosen to or not.
6. BlackRose84 the day I decided to move on with my life..
5. Style Observer tells us the new year is the perfect time to organize in style.
4. Final Countdown to 2009 by Jil at Creme de la Creme
3. I have a recap to add, 2008 marked the beginning of My It Things Videos.
2. The Coveted said on Twitter, ’some people will actually die from a chocolate overdose after eating my cake tonight… just a warning y’all’. But also go read her blogpost, My Year Of Beauty
1. This prediction by Shoe Smitten - Super stilettos with platforms and outlandish silhouettes will be even more popular.
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Hanukkah winds down tonight at sunset wrapping up the giving season for 2008, delivering us right to the doorstep of 2009. How can we not think about where we have been all year … where we are headed for next year, and … how are we going to get there? I really try hard to live in the moment, but at this time of the year it is hard to not look back over the past year and wonder what lies ahead in the year to come.
In the next few days I will be moving my design studio. Like 2008, it is full of projects finished and unfinished. Memories of conversations with lots of laughs and sometime tears. There were hugs to remind us all, it is going to be OK, the sun will shine again…it always does. The new studio is a blank slate just like 2009. I can’t help but wonder what is to come in this new space and new year.
Take a moment this week to wonder and dream, the possibilities are limitless. It may spark an idea that will keep you on your path for 2009. I would love to hear about them too. Leave me a comment, email me, DM me on Twitter or write on my wall in Facebook.
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As far as independent fashion designers go Krarelle Levy, of Krelwear is a great role model and an inspiration. She keeps her store on Smashing Darling, where she sells exclusively online, very current and always stocked with amazing photographs of her beautiful line. Born in Paris, and raised in Miami, Karelle Levy is as much an artist as she is a designer. As a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, she acquired a BFA in Textile Design. Karelle moved back to Miami and worked as a costume designer for dance and theater productions, and even performed herself. Still drawn to creating fabrics, Karelle began knitting again, and created costumes for her own experimental movement performances. These daring and creatively progressive performances cultivated into the first fashion forward pieces of a ready-to-wear line. Karelle’s fusion of art and fashion has led to the most original and refreshing fashion performance shows that KRELwear is known for.
The one of kind line embraces flaws with no rules at all; enhancing originality through organic methods, let it run, knit. These garments are elegant and funky. Inspiration is found in the process using mixtures of the finest yarns available. “Toobular” design, lets us create pieces with no or very few seams. When the fabric is completed so is the garment. Most pieces can be worn several ways making them interchangeable and convertible. The made to order line follows the same “toobular” philosophy, but are more conservative in comparison. The fabrics are much simpler in their fabric structure. Some of these pieces are also convertible.
KRELwear was recognized as a GenArt “Fresh Faces of Fashion” Among its list of thrilled garment owners are: Alanis Morrisset, Christina Ricci, Carmen Electra, Pink, Cameron Diaz, and Natasha Lyonne. She has been featured in numerous magazines as well you can check them out here. See her lookbook here.
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I took some time off over this passed week and it gave me the chance to reflect back about Smashing Darling and 2007. It has been truely amazing to me. Do you know that the site is still not even 1 year old yet? I believe it went live on Feb. 20th, 2007. What a crazy, amazing 10 months it has been and I look forward to seeing what 2008 is bringing. The new year is already starting off with a bang thanks to all who voted for us on the Mashable Open Web Awards. It is official for those of you that don’t know, we finished second! So on January 9th we, the darlings, are headed out to SF to attend the awards show. We will keep you posted. The big guy with the red suit brought me a video camera. I will be able to post video of Julie, Mo, and I running around the city, catching the sites, meeting people, and looking for great street fashion. Drop a comment if there is a place we must see, do, or eat at while we are there.
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My favorite, Papierdoll, all this week is posting fashion predictions and recapping 2007 for us all. It is great, because they aren’t your run of the mill. The first, expert papierdoll turned to is by Lauren Sherman, fashion writer for Forbes. Sherman’s predictions weigh heavy on the minds of the business intelligentsia as fashion investors might look to her crystal ball statements and double down on fashion companies she deems worthy.[...]So what does Sherman have to say?
Minimalism will be in, in a big way. She uses the example of:
“gray jeans with a lemon yellow belt or an oversize blazer with a sports watch”
The Second, Cathy Horyn’s predictions for 2008. Reading Horyn’s tea leaves is particularly hard since she rarely makes overt mentions or prognostications of what to look forward to in the seasons to come. What I did was take a snapshot of some of her blog quotes to get a read on what she believes will be runway-worthy next year. By no means are these official prognostications from Horyn, it’s a Tim Russert-like effort to use her statements as to what she would like to see in 2008:
In regards to a trip Horyn took to Berlin where she found that certain fashion stores along a street were devoid of advertising displays. December 24, 2007 Horyn says:
We discovered things in nearly every shop we went into, but I can’t remember a name of a single place. These were not big-name stores, anyway.[...]
Today’s Post is about Ten Disappointing Moments in 2007. This is what they are saying: 2007 was a year of change in fashion. Several designers shifted their employment from one house to another, several designers left the scene altogether, and an even larger batch decided to go out on their own. While we abhor top ten lists, we couldn’t resist creating our 10 disappointing fashion moments of 2007. Being the [...]
So keep checking in to see what the rest of the week will bring us from Papierdoll’s recaps and predictions.
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This article is music to my ears. I have been an indie designer doing one-of-a-kinds and small runs of production for 15 years. It is about time that the media start to praise the fact that good things come to those who wait.
By Craig Wilson, USA TODAY
Every year around this time, prognosticators love to tell us what’s going to happen next year.
Not to disappoint, a trend-spotting group at JWT, one of America’s largest ad agencies, already has compiled its list of the 10 new trends it sees popping up in 2008. The growing power of women. Blue (think sky and sea) being the new green when it comes to the environment. Tequila replacing wine as a cheaper, trendier alternative. Just to name a few.
I’ll confess I’m not much good at trend-spotting. Blasphemous, I know, in this hip and happening world, but by the time I recognize a trend, it’s pretty much over. I’m not sure what I’m doing in the meantime, but give me a break. These things happen quickly.
My theory is this: Why get all worked up about something that will be history before my next haircut?
So I was pleased to see the JWT trendmeisters list one trend for the new year that I think might actually be worth investigating. They call it “Rethinking Instant Gratification.”
According to the experts, ” ‘Custom-made and one-of-a-kind’ will rise above the mass-produced din of ‘now.’ Marketers are asking for commitment from consumers who’ve become accustomed to flitting from one product to another for quick fixes.”
Read the rest of the article here.
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