by trish on November 9, 2011
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LA peeps who love slow fashion and shopping locally made goods, Thread is coming to town again. Just in time for gift-giving season, THREAD will showcase 100 of the top independent designers in the LA area to ensure attendees find unique and creative gifts. Consider this to be the best The holiday shopping you will do this season. Don’t forget to take you newly purchased handmade gift to the DIY Gift Wrapping Lounge. And because they know friends like to shop together, you and your bff need to hit the themed photo booth together!
Location: The Cooper Design Space
Hours: 11am-5pm
For eight years, THREAD Show has encouraged cities across the country to shop local by presenting a curated showcase of the most skilled and creative designers in each market.
This year, THREAD Show is also announcing a new Premium Ticket, available to the first 300 at the door. Serial shoppers will be granted entry one hour prior to general admission. The shopper who prefers wide open isles and plenty of room to browse will be able to enjoy first access to the holiday collections. This limited availability ticket also comes with a gift bag packed with THREAD Show swag and a complimentary cocktail.
Skip the third-party retailer this season and head to THREAD for a unique holiday shopping experience. The preview hour for each show will be from 11 a.m. to noon. Premium Tickets will be available for $25. Doors open to general admission from noon to 5 p.m. General admission tickets will be available for $5 if attendees pre-register up to 24 hours prior to the show at www.threadshow.com. $10 tickets will be available at the door.
- Shop from loads of trendsetting designers bringing you men’s and women’s clothing, accessories, shoes, jewelry and more!
- Do it yourself (because nobody does it better)at the DIY gift wrapping station
- Sip away on amazing signature cocktails
- Join us for a mini-mani from an hot local nail salon
- Snatch up the designer and sponsor giveaways coming from the DJ booth all day long
- Make it a memory in the THREAD Photo Booth
- Chill out with quick rub down in the THREAD Well Lounge
- Check out the top designer looks at the Fashion Art Installation
- Get styled with a new do and a make-up touch up in the Style Lounge
- Art gallery featuring top local artists
- Snacks, drinks, magazines and loads of free stuff
- Kids 12 & under get in for FREE
by Mo on December 7, 2010
The Good News
We are happy to see more and more designers merging together their workroom and retail into one productive space; we don’t want you to miss stories of these inspiring entrpreneurs in Detroit and Seattle. Do you know designers sharing a workroom/retail space in your community? Please let us know! Or, if you would like to connect with designers in your area, pop us an email and we can see if we can help you make a connection!
New Features
We love watching that designer number click up on the homepage (728!) and seeing all of your gorgeous new uploads on the site! Since it makes us so giddy, we have been highlighting new items in the blog – take a peek!
Soon every item page on Smashing Darling will have it’s own Facebook Like button! Anyone shopping on the site will be able to quickly share your item on Facebook.
More new features to come in the new year darlings….and come February we turn 4! Oh, how time flies!
Curated Holiday Shopping
But regardless of who’s selling it, people want to buy something authentic, made by an individual with a great idea. (WSJ)
We hope you are having a successful season in all the places you sell your designs darlings! Thank you for being a part of our community, and for being on the front lines teaching the world to curate their shopping. Send us a heads up about your holiday events so we can shout them out in the Darling blog. Don’t forget people can also buy e-gift cards at Smashing Darling to shop your collections and over 700 others!
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by Mo on December 11, 2009
What’s Going On
Tis’ the season Darlings! We are sure you are in a tizzy finishing or starting your holiday lists, shopping, and most of all – celebrating! What better way to be all a-glitter than winning a Darling giveaway! MoDarling is just back from spreading the good Darling word at the SCOPE Art Show in Miami. Shoppers loved hearing about Darling designers, TrishDarling’s DOT shirts were a sell out item and NAIK FUR hats were a total hit! We’re about to pull 5 names out of a smashing hat and award some lucky SCOPE shoppers each a $100 Darling e-gift card. Good things happen to Darling friends!
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What’s New
But wait, there’s more. If you are blogging about all the amazing indie designers out there, this one is for you. Bloggers have all of December to enter a post at WHAT Designers.com in their Independent Design BLOG OFF to win some more great ($) Darling prizes! While you are there, vote for your fave little black dress, lots o’ Darlings to vote for there.
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Darling Holiday Events
Darling designers have events happening all over the country as well as online. Keep an eye on the blog for events near you.
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Smashing Kudos and tidbits
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Holiday cheer to all! ~ the Darlings
