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Open studios make us giddy, especially when a group of designers come together to support each other like the Metal Arts Guild in San Francisco. If you live nearby, go meet some local designers and see where they work. Learn more about the artists involved here, and if you are a jeweler in the community save the date for the upcoming symposium below. As always, thanks for inspiring us San Francisco darlings!
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by Mo on September 16, 2011
Hey Philly darlings! Go support some local fashion tonight, learn more here. Philadelphia Design Initiative … well, you sound smashing! Thanks for supporting independent fashion in your community.
As new fall runway fashions make their way onto the streets, it can be hard to create sartorial singularity. Saving you from the world of copy-cat design, the Philadelphia Design Initiative, a new local-design repping org created by Melanie Gershman and Scott Yesner, is hosting a fashion show called Fresh and Local. The runway extravaganza is meant to showcase the creative forces in style that are springing up locally… (Read full article @ Citypaper)
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Read all about it @ Very Glossy
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We came across a new Tumblr last week: Fuck Yeah Made in USA. We are thankful A Continuous Lean is taking the time and effort to share with us the fact that American-made fashion, though scarce, still exists. Call us crazy (we don’t mind!), but we believe that fashion businesses can be created and sustained right in your own community. Yes, we know there is a whole fashion system out there doing it’s own thing, with it’s own rules. But when places like Frock, a.k.a Darling Headquarters, can thrive … well it proves to us that the local system is working. Have a moment with us in this video tour of of our own happy, home factory and see how Mergirl and Whosiepie are defying odds in Chester, CT.
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Tumblr Love: Fuck Yeah Made In USA
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Please take some time to watch this video and get to know a new fashion collective on the block. It gives us such joy to see fashion incubators and collectives popping up across the country. Why leave the community you love for New York or L.A., when all the resources you need are right at your fingertips? Detroit Fashion Collective and others (see below) hope you will stay put and create your fashion vision from your home locale. They also intend to help in a big way. These organizations are creating a new model, ultimately one that benefits both the designer where they are — be it Detroit, Seattle, Portland, Chicago — as well as the entire community around it. We are thankful to see this happening, the future is bright darlings, just make sure you are looking –and shopping– in the right places. If you know of a fashion incubator near you, please comment and let us know! Happy Friday, stay smashing, and spread the word.
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If you are in the Dallas area tomorrow night please go support independent fashion in that community! Sacred Heart Collections is part of this Shop & Sip event tomorrow night, details below. Like this sparkle you see below? Browse the Sacred Heart Collections boutique on Smashing Darling, or go read how the designer describes the Sacred Heart girl.
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Keep up with Sacred Heart Collections on Facebook
Shop Sacred Heart Collections on Smashing Darling
Ginger Convertible Halter Jumpsuit
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If you live anywhere near Detroit, please get yourself to Pop Up Detroit tomorrow! We want to live vicariously through you. Local artists and independent fashion designers have come together to give their community a fresh look at what is happening there, and on a shoestring budget. Where there’s a will there’s a way. Read more at the Detroit Hub: Pop Into Pop Up Detroit.
Pop Up Detroit is a collaborative effort of young residents of the city to make use of Detroit’s vacant spaces to show case the creative talent that resides in the city.
Kelly Lynne – Fashion Is For You
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Piedmont Avenue Merchants Association
We love seeing communities supporting each other! If you live in San Francisco go stroll the businesses in and around Oakland’s Piedmont Avenue this Thursday evening. The merchants have gathered up and started an Art Walk to take place the third Thursday of every month. Here is a little musical preview of what you will hear if you get over and shop at Fiftyseven-Thirtythree, not to mention a sweet 15% off.
Fiftyseven-Thirtythree, Anna May Wong Rebel Women’s Two Sided Top
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Join us for the second installment of the Piedmont Avenue Art Walk on a beautiful summer night.
15% discount on all fiftyseven-thirtythree merchandise
THURSDAY, JULY 21st
6-9PM
TUNES:
Beats provided by
DJ Bobby Peru (thizz.face.disco)
http://listn.to/bobbyperu
Foniks (Neckbreakers)
http://soundcloud.com/foniks
LIVE PAINTING
Zachary Sweet
REFRESHMENTS:
Wine and Beer provided
Fiftyseven-Thirtythree, Gorilla Cop Cinder Organic Men’s T-Shirt
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We were thrilled to share with you, about a month back, that Darling Deanna Burasco had her designs coming down the runway at the West 18th Street Fashion Show in Kansas City. We love that this show supports local designers and is free to the public. Even better it takes place outside in the heart of the community’s center for art and fashion, taking up the entire block. It’s true, we want to go — (sigh) and someday we will! Here are some images of Deanna’s pieces and the looks they went with below. Click on over the the West 18th Street website for a full slideshow of their favorite looks from the show, and… rock on local darlings everywhere!
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Deanna Burasco Designs on Facebook
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We are always happy to read of new resources popping up for independent fashion designers. Tonight SFFAMA hosts a local fashion designer workshop, and a quick visit over to SF Indie Fashion resulted in examples of even more inspired community action. Take a look below, and thanks to Lorraine for keeping us in the know.
SFFAMA Fashion Mash-Up, get the details here
SF Indie Fashion, The Do List: San Francisco Fashion Events May 16-22
SF Indie Fashion, Runway Recap: Academy of Art University Spring 2011
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We are sending ourselves to Bend, Oregon this weekend in spirit. That’s right, little darling clones are going to go have a fabulous time and finally meet Stuart Breidenstein of Go Robot. We couldn’t be more excited; Stuart was one of the very first designers to open a boutique on Smashing Darling back in 2007! If you want to go back in time, please go read our interview with him here. Of course you are welcome to stay in the here and now and check out this recent piece below, written about him in his own smashing community. Stuart’s studio/gallery -Stuart’s of Bend- lives in the historic Ironworks building in Bend and will be chock full of events this weekend for Last Saturday, details below. If you make it, be sure to weave your way downstairs to Stuart’s for the first ever *clearance sale — oh my. Have fun darlings! Don’t forget: Shop Go Robot on Smashing Darling.
The Source Weekly, Intelligent Design: Stuart Breidenstein
Join featured artist Paula Bullwinkel for a fashion-themed art exhibit with photography and paintings.
And we’ll have a fashion show by local designer Allison Murphy of Utilitu,
Plus a display of some one-of-a-kind, handmade garments and accessories from
Sara Bella Upcycled,
Karen Holm,
Janne Tolentino
and Mai Nguyen!
Plus enjoy live music by Third Seven,
and a dj set by Encounter!
And that’s just what’s going on at Bright Place Gallery!
Don’t miss the (first ever) clearance sale downstairs at Stuart’s… over 50 pieces on clearance starting at 10.00. And for each piece of jewelry sold we’ll donate $10.00 to Save the Children in Japan. (clearance or not.)
Cindercone Clay Center, Weekend Trunk Show, RUUD Gallery and The Sparrow Bakery will all be open and hosting events, so come check out the fun at:
The Old Ironworks District
50 Scott St. Bend, OR 97701
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