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One of our darling designers KahriAnne Kerr, is getting ready for fashion week and needs help funding her show. Take a peek at her Kickstarter to watch her video. She needs to raise $5,000 for the project to be backed. Kahri designs and produces her collection from her home base in Brooklyn, NY.
Kahri by KahriAnne Kerr is hip, funky, rocker chic women’s contemporary clothing and accessories! Kahri has been worn by celebrities such as Keri Hilson, Fergie, Paris Hilton, etc. and featured in music videos, and magazines, such as Zink, UsWeekly, Vibe, Essence, Interview, WWD, etc. KahriAnne will also be featured in the upcoming fashion competition reality show “24 Hour Catwalk” with Alexa Chung, airing on January 24th 10/9c on Lifetime! That will be a sneak peak at what’s to come for the new Fall 2012 collection. The theme for Fall 2012 is “Sweet Dreams”. The inspiration for the collection is a mix of Annie Lenox, menswear, Rosie the Riveter, and edgy 40’s style glam.
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The deadline is fast approaching to apply for Charleston Fashion Week’s Emerging Designer Competition East. There is still 2 days left for applications to be accepted, deadline is Oct. 13 2011. In a nutshell, Charleston Fashion Week is giving 20 lucky emerging fashion designer in the east a chance to win a spot on the runway during their spring shows in March 2012. The 20 semi-finalists will compete for the Grand Prize of:
$5000 cash
$10,000 online marketing package.
A professional Lookbook
Free runway show at Charleston Fashion Week® 2013
What are you waiting for, if you think you have what it takes…
Apply Now!
MISSION STATEMENT
Charleston Fashion Week’s® Emerging Designer Competition: East (EDC:E) seeks and supports a community of up-and-coming and undiscovered talent in the realm of fashion. EDC:E believes in the value of spotlighting a new generation of innovative designers in the multiple genres of fashion. The mission of the EDC:E is to offer a platform for aspiring designers living in the Eastern United States to showcase their talent on the runway at Charleston Fashion Week® and gain the attention of national press and buyers.
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This week independent designer Gwen Beloti delivers fashion for social action into her boutique at Smashing Darling. The dress, below, was designed specifically for the Design the Dream philanthropic collaboration and is available for pre-order exclusively online here at Smashing Darling! The dress will also debut live in Gwen Beloti’s spring 2012 collection during New Jersey Fashion Week Oct 9th-13th.
Shop Gwen Beloti @ Smashing Darling
(Don’t miss her Sample Sale)
**All pre-order purchases of the dress will get an automatic 10% off the regular sale price, and will receive an additional 10% online with the following promo code: DTD12AD. In addition, regular orders will be available online and in select stores in spring 2012.
Amanda Seales is featured in an exclusive DTD piece created by Gwen Beloti, a free flowing cocktail dress with sequin trimming and checkered strap back detail. The DTD dress is now available for purchase at Smashing Darling and select boutiques in NYC. A portion of the proceeds will benefit two organizations near and dear to the creators’ hearts; Little Dresses for Africa and Adonai Partners. Both Gwen and Eboyné are passionate beyond measure about this collaboration and project. In keeping with the goal of DTD, these two women want to do their part in helping those in need. Their mission throughout the Design the Dream campaign is to bring awareness to their prospective charities. (Learn more here…)
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…it was an intimate show that felt worlds away from the Fashion Week crazy. Not that it wasn’t a professional, amazing-looking show, but it felt private and special in a way that the FW tents are not.
(Keep reading at The 9 Per Week Project)
Hey NYC fashion lovers! Just a reminder that you have the rest of the month to see NY emerging designers on the runway at LES Runway. See the full schedule and buy tickets at the Grand Opening website (also the darling hosts of the occasion). Don’t forget you can shop those same runway looks in that very space. When there isn’t a runway event the space morphs into a pop-up boutique as well. Most excellent we think! See dates and times below. How about one of these for every city? Sounds good to us…
September 7th – October 2nd
Runway: Thursday, Friday and Saturday (7pm, 8:15pm, 9:30pm)
Pop-up Shop: Tues, Wed and Sun (12pm-7pm), Sat (12pm-6pm)
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We are thrilled to see that local NYC designers have a home at Grand Opening during fashion week. Kicking off on September 7th and running straight through to October 2nd, Grand Opening transforms into LES Runway – a convertible runway/pop-up boutique for local independent designers. We love it! Tickets are on sale now, yes… open to the general public, for three shows a night Thurs-Sat throughout the entire month. Tickets are only $12, drink included – most excellent. See you there darlings!
Part fashion showcase, part pop-up shop, LES Runway brings the runway to the downtown scene. It is an opportunity for emerging, local fashion designers to present their work on the catwalk, display the same creations in a pop-up store and interact with the general public in a truly creative and unique fashion setting. Grand Opening will reinvent itself by day as a boutique storefront where patrons will have the chance to purchase select items straight off the runway and by night as the most intimate, interactive runway ever to hit New York.
September 7th – October 2nd
Runway: Thursday, Friday and Saturday (7pm, 8:15pm, 9:30pm)
Pop-up Shop: Tues, Wed and Sun (12pm-7pm), Sat (12pm-6pm)
GET TICKETS HERE.
Thursday September 22, Buy Tickets
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Saturday September 17, Buy Tickets
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Thursday September 22, Buy Tickets
Friday September 9, Buy Tickets
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Are you runway ready? If you haven’t already heard the buzz buzz … Gen Art is alive and kicking and on the hunt for emerging designers in NY and LA. Here are some of the details and requirements below, full information here.
Who can apply?
Fashion designers who have been in business for 1-7 years, will be producing at least 10 looks for their Spring 2012 collection and have shipped and sold to at least one store. Lines that have shown before in a NY or LA runway show cannot be considered.
REQUIREMENTS:
In order to be eligible to participate in Gen Art’s Fresh Faces in Fashion show, applicants must meet the following requirements:
- Designer currently has a full collection to show (at least 10 looks).
- Designer must design under their own label and have been designing under their own name for 1 -7 years.
- Designer must have sold and shipped at least one season for their current label to 2 boutiques or stores, private custom ordered items do not qualify as sales.
- Designer has never shown their label in a runway presentation during New York or Los Angeles fashion weeks.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE NY: JULY 10th SUBMISSION DEADLINE LA: AUG 10th
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We can’t wait to see more from Jasmin Zorlu! While Fashion Week takes a firm hold of NYC, San Francisco does not sleep. Take a look at a few SF indie fashion events happening tonight and on V-day. A fashion show for the lovesick? We love it. Read Jasmin’s post about these shows in her blog.
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Darling designer Adolfo Sanchez is showing his F/W 2011 collection at Nolcha’s Fashion week. Click over to Nolcha to get all the details.
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What’s Going On
We’ve been chatting over on our Facebook page about eco-friendly fashion, sustainability, and independent designers. We don’t have all the answers, but we’d love your input as a supporter of indie designers. Read more…
We believe independent fashion is a niche market that is here to stay, and has nowhere to go but up. But, don’t we all get by with a little help from our friends? You can support indie designers by spreading the word. Please take the next week to let 5 people, shoppers or designers, in your world know that Smashing Darling is here!
What’s New
Fall has definitely set in here in CT and NYC where we type to you from. We’re thinking about new layers to keep us warm. What are your favorites?
Don’t miss the new collections that have been added to Darling boutiques over the past few weeks:
Stacie May serves up some sass, Minna K says it all with silk, and Kristin Hassan… so sweet and flirty! Did we mention we are over 700 designers strong? They’re all just smashing.
Love your Local
If we could hop around from fashion week to fashion week across the country we definitely would. But alas, we need a few more Darlings for that. In the meantime here is a mini round-up of some local fashion inspiration around the U.S. of A.
Tampa Fashion Week: K. Hendrix runway shots, shop the runway collection right here on Smashing Darling – on sale.
Philly Fashion goes mobile!
Portland Fashion Week:
Designer discovery, and recap from Madison Buyer.
Darling Kudos and tidbits
We didn’t mean to leave fab MNFashion out of the above list, we ran out of room! Pale Rider looked like it was a delicious show. A lovely treat to see beautiful Willow Tree in real life and over on Elle.com... We made some new friends at Maker Faire, and last week one lucky BurdaStyle member won $100 to shop here at Smashing Darling! September flew by and now we are ready for Halloween trickery, if your costume needs some couture (of course it does!) Papusza Darling is here to save you – boo!
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