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Welcome to # 20 – The Good News

by Mo on October 9, 2008

What’s Going On?

Back to school. Nose to the grindstone. Fall is here and in New England, the home of the Darlings, it is starting to cool off. Finally time to spend some time organizing inside, kiss your flip-flops goodbye for the winter, and pay some attention to your favorite layers and boots that have been hidden away…or hop online and buy anew! Consider Smashing Darling as your connection to boutiques across the country. Maybe a shopping trip to NYC, San Fran, and Chicago just isn’t in the cards for this Fall, but you can find designers from there right here with us. Go explore, and if you don’t have time to, don’t miss the Interviews and Editor’s Picks in the Smashing blog!

Unique belted cape, Erika Hendrix

Playful vintage from Atelier
What’s New
We want to send a big thank you to the crew over at SheFinds. Thanks to them one lucky gal just won a $500 shopping spree to spend here at Smashing Darling. I know we told you all about it, but did you get to check out all the great comments? Go check it out, and here are some of our favorites:
- Catalina K: “Thanks for letting us know that such a special website and store exist.”
- Tammy: “It took me an hour to decide! I love this site and will be back often!”
- Yulonda: “I would like to start by saying that I absolutely love your site and its versatility.”
Coming Soon
Maybe the Fashion Week buzz has died down, but we know the shows go on. Call up your best gals and come enjoy some runway fun this month:
- Next week My It Things narrows down the search for their It Designer, go vote here. The winning designer will be awarded $5,000 toward the production of their Spring 2009 line. If you are near NYC, grab some tickets and come watch the show with us!
- The following week we are happy to head to Jersey City in support of Seam Collective
and their next show, Fenomenon. Just $20 in advance for an extraordinary evening of fashion and music to benefit Women Rising, a non-profit organization that helps Hudson County women in need.

Beautiful bias cut cowl, Kate Boggiano

Hoody Love by Kahri
Smashing Kudos and tidbits
We want to give kudos to a few darling designers who helped spread the good word about our She Finds fun, a quick – rock on!- to…Birdland Creations…Thistle Downs…and, not a Darling, but word also landed over at Fling it Girl…be sure to check out the October Cause a Scene mag and read the Darling column…I love seeing Darling items recommended over at This Next, check it out…and we would love to hear from you, who are your favorites around the Darling world? Send those comments, and any others, our way!
Until next time…
cheers ~ the Darlings

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trish

Editors Picks by Sarah-Jane Editor in Chief of Cause a Scene

by trish on July 18, 2008


With our current Sugar and Spice issue, over at Cause a Scene magazine we’ve gone decidedly girly, and with summer holidays just around the corner, we decided to pink up our packing! This delightfully stylish luggage tag brings a-list bling to drab terminals, whilst this versatile scarf is a beach must… so pout those sugar lips, think fluffy and feminine, and wave bon voyage to beachwear boredom!       post by Sarah-Jane

Sarah-Jane is fabulous and so is Cause a Scene. Don’t forget to join them on Myspace (or Smashing Darling for that matter) When you check out the magazine you can see an intro video from Mandy Murphy. She is doing a video blog for Cause a Scene about her adventures of being a model so keep tuning in to check out new episodes on that. Other monthly shows will include Jamesson, Ethel Hallow, Luke Blake and Tarrie Noir.  Also you can read tips for selling as an indie designer by yours truely every month, as well as PR tips, modeling tips and more in the columns section. You can check out their O-fficial blog and read about all the yummy reviews they have been getting….but most importantly read the magazine it is full of amazing fashion and a lot of it is indie. See you there!

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trish

Fun things going on in the indie fashion community

by trish on July 14, 2008

Do you think you have what it takes to be the next big thing in fashion? If you do, you are going to want to get to the casting call being held by Jack and Bill a New York fashion PR agency. They are holding auditions July 15th & 16th. You can get all the info here (the details are also located in the events section of Smashing Darling). PR Couture got the inside scoop about the company if you want to know more than just the details of the event!

Speaking of PR Couture, we are in good company as monthly contributors to Cause a Scene Magazine. We will be giving tips about selling online. PR Couture will give tips on how to approach fashion media. So stay tuned for those, you aren’t going to want to miss them. Other are fashion trend setting contributors are Trend de la Creme, The Model’s Portal.

Bust Magazine is celebrating their 15th anniversary! It will be held August 12th in NYC. Get all the details and tickets to the concert here.

Reminder: There are only a few days left to subscribe to Venuszine and be in the running for a gift certificate to Smashing Darling. 25 random people will be chosen to receive one of the gift certificates plus other fabulous gifts. You have until July 15th so hurry!

Just waned everyone to be on the look out for the new Smashing Darling’s new badges, buttons and avatars. You will see them popping up all over the place!

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Mo

Welcome to # 17 – The Good News

by Mo on July 10, 2008

What’s Going On

Craziness and joy abound in the Smashing Darling world – welcome all to version 2, we are reborn! This sweet indie gal to the right is a great image for how we feel, hands and arms raised up in a big cheer! Version 2 makes it so much easier to navigate the Darling world; to clearly see all the different categories of indie fashion that hang within our community. Product images are bigger, you can sort, filter, and scroll. We have hand picked some indie standouts for you in the Chic Boutique, created a collaborative home for indie fashion events nationwide (know a designer in your area having an event? add it in!), and created room on our homepage to keep you easily updated on our latest promotional fun (ie: this month Venuszine!).
Girls: Joy from shop.teddahughes

Women: Create your own, Kate Boggiano

What’s New

We love our new look! Please let us know what you think, and certainly if you have any problems – just let us know! Most issues thus far have been solved with a simple clearing of the cache. Computers have a way of remembering how things used to work. Here is how to clear the cache:
If using a PC, you can clear it out by going to Tools > Internet Options > Temporary Internet Files > Delete Files > Delete all offline content. If you are a MAC user, not to worry – you lucky ducks can check a box that says clear cache every time you shut down the computer.

Coming Soon

If you frequent the Darling blog you’ll notice our lovely new look there as well. Enjoy your Friday coffee, lunchtime, or those last few minutes before you run out the office door perusing the Friday Editors Picks. Sometimes it is the Darlings, sometimes a friendly editor we have smashed up with…you’ll just have to check in and see!


Keep your eye out on the weekend too for a bit of Scavenger Hunt fun. Spend some time exploring and I bet you can win…more info soon!

Boys: Round Botton Baby is super-fly!

Men: Dawson for men, the guys get their own

Smashing Kudos and tidbits

Goodness me, did you know we have over 400 designers?…the Darlings have a new column over at Cause a Scene international fashion mag…the Style Observer hearts indie…our new look gets profiled…and CraftStylish is already addicted!…Darling Evlove made it in to the final round at IdeaBlob, check it out, and we’ll keep you posted for the final round of voting!
Don’t forget, we want to see how you wear your indie!
cheers ~ the Darling’s
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