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Mo

Welcome to # 34: Sparkling Indie Fashion – Holiday Giveaways

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!

What’s New

There is a little Darling addiction starting in some lovely spots out there – fabulous. LadyLux shares her Darling picks once a week, and this month she is giving away a $150 Darling shopping spree, go comment and enter yourself to win!

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.

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.

If you’re in Chicago, check out Mountains of the Moon, at the Sustainable Style Soiree. Say hi to Dina Varano at the RISD Alumni Holiday Sale in Providence, RI. In Dallas? Go meet the STATUS gals at the Holiday Bazaar.

LOTS of sample sales on the site right now, and lookie here at this blog and find a promo code for Darling Coco Bourgeoisie!

Smashing Kudos and tidbits

In early 2010 Smashing Darling will be 3! Yahoooo – we can’t believe it! Fun in the works for that birthday…We love seeing Laura Dawson featured in the London Times Style section – congrats Laura!…Everyone needs a pair of Smashing skivvies – congrats to the winner over at The Demoiselles…We like the way they think at the Linkery in San Diego, love for Darling Tib Nelson and more locals….and a great mini interview of Darling Sacred Heart, chock full of inspiration.
Holiday cheer to all! ~ the Darlings

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Mo

Welcome to #30: Emerging Fashion from Across the Country

by Mo on August 13, 2009

What’s Going On

We are all trying to soak up these last weeks of summer – THAT is what’s going on! Need a sassy sundress, tank, or skirt because you are bored with your summer wardrobe? You came to the right place – take a look around this page for inspiration!
Want to win a shopping spree from Darling Evil Kitty? Read more here…
How about tickets to some Fashion Week fun in NYC? Read more here…
Ending your summer in the Hampton’s or Nantucket? Don’t miss this!…


Anavaa Kisasa, Paisley Tier Dress, $50
What’s New

Just another reason to keep your eyes peeled on the Smashing blog. The Pick of the Day gives you all the details about the featured product of the day, from the Chic Boutique, as well as a bit about the designer who created it. If you don’t have time to peruse the site this is a great way to get a glimpse of the Darling world, as well as learn about designers from all over the country.
Coming Soon
Soon New York will go crazy over Spring 2010 collections – are you ready? Stay tuned in the blog as we do our best to support emerging designers showing around the city; don’t forget Darling Fall collections are sure to be arriving here very soon! After all, isn’t that what you need now?
Of course Fashion Week is not only for NYC. Learn about great communities all around the country supporting their local, independent designers – like San Francisco, and Austin; check out the links to more right under the Fashion Week heading in the blog.

Smashing Kudos and tidbits
We think it is just lovely that SF Indie Fashion
added our last Darling update to their news round up last month…thanks a bunch!….Darling Ashes and Empires gets double love from Ashe Mischief and
Miss Malaprop…Darlings show up on Splendicity not once (Darling Fountainhead), not twice (Darling Birdland), but three times (Darling Carolina Soma), most excellent!….Fabulously Broke obsesses over Smashing Darling, her new favorite place to shop and drool over Darling jewels…now that is what we like to hear!

If you hang in Facebook, please be a Darling fan!

cheers ~ the Darlings

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trish

Win A $500 Shopping Spree At Smashing Darling thru SheFinds.com

by trish on September 27, 2008

Smashing Darling has paired up with SheFinds for

Freebie Friday: Win A $500 Shopping Spree At Smashing Darling

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What: $500 to spend anywhere on SmashingDarling.com.

Why: Smashing Darling stocks a seemingly endless collection of jewelry, clothes, and all kinds of accessories from independent designers you definitely won’t see in the mall. There is quite literally something (actually, a whole lot of things) for everyone.

Probably because we’ve been more than a little into Mad Men lately, we like the retro look of this Elleira Couture jacket and the classic vibe of this Kate Boggiano sweater.

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And the jewelry is fabulous too. This elegant-hip necklace from Jennifer King Designs would work well against a solid-colored tee or with a blazer and camisole, and this cool ring from Manic Trout is made from wire and a vintage button. We could go on.

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How: Go to SmashingDarling.com, look around, then come back and comment telling us one or a few of the things you’d buy with $500.
And don’t forget stop by MomFinds for a chance to win a pair of Robeez Mini Shoez.

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1. Post in the comments section at SheFinds.com about what you’d buy at SmashingDarling.com.

2. You must supply us with a valid email address and sign up for the SheFinds newsletter.

3. The contest starts now and entries must be date stamped by our server no later than Friday, October 3rd, 2008 at 11:59 AM Eastern Time to be eligible.

4. One winner will be selected during a random drawing and will be announced in the October 7th SheFinds newsletter. The winner must reply via email as instructed in the newsletter to claim the prize.

5. No prize substitutions.

6. You must be 18 years old or older to enter and a resident of the USA.

7. No purchase necessary.

8. Void where prohibited.

9. Click here for the full rules.

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Mo

Designer Toolbox #3

by Mo on April 17, 2008

Community News and new darlings
We have quite a few new darlings since last month – welcome!- and some lovely new spring wear as well. Lots of safari styles and bright colors to be found to get your senses warmed up. As you read on and learn how to integrate your indie…be sure to let all your peeps know about the Darling shopping spree with Second City Style and Papierdoll.
Other community news on the radar: Trish Darling is blogging over at DIY City mag, go join that community with us! Darling Ahna White has been writing for Jewelry Artist mag, take a peek. Please contact us with any news you would like to share and/or comment away in the blog on things you want to see, things you like/don’t like…fill us in!

New for Spring – Laura Dawson

New for spring – Nichole Angelina Grazioli
how to – SHOUT IT OUT
Smashing Darling was built by designers, for designers. We truly built this community around the needs and wants of an independent clothing designer. Hopefully, with a little help we can get you out there selling your stuff so that it’s the most useful to you and what you have going on. Here are two quick and easy ways to connect your dots online:
1 - Grab a badge/widget out of your account and pop it right into your website, blog, myspace etc. Here is an example at whosiepie.blogspot, (scroll down on your right.) And if you don’t have commerce on your site at all, simply link to Smashing Darling right from your SHOP icon, as KRELwear does, nice ‘n easy!

2 – INVITE your people!

Does everyone on your mailing list know they can purchase from you at Smashing Darling? Let them know! Send them an invitation, it helps you and it introduces them to our community…and so we grow!

1-Go into your store account

2-click on Shout It Out

3-click Invite customers

Simply add in your email contacts (cut and past will be quickest!) and you are done. You can personalize the invite as well, even add a Promo Code…but we will save that lesson for next month!

New darling Kahri

New vintage in the house – 28 Crash!
Foto Finesse – Lesson 3
Exposure

So we taught you a bit about prepping for a photo shoot in the past lessons. The next challenge is making sure that your camera interprets the light in the way that is closest to what your eye sees: this is called exposure. Some cameras may offer very little control over exposure (shooting in what is often called a “fully programmed” mode), but often cameras have a number of choices, usually called exposure modes. Once again, there’s no way around reading the manual here to get the most out of your camera. Check out what exposure modes your camera is capable of, and which matches your situation best.

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There you have it. As always, thanks for being here and SMASHing with us!
cheers ~ the Darling’s
p.s. one more shout it out tip:
Buy a SMASH up tee!

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trish

Get Your Indie On! Chance to win $500 Shopping Spree

by trish on April 3, 2008

Enter to win a $500 Shopping Spree at SmashingDarling.com. Smashing Darling is where you’ll find fabulous designers Leading an Indie Fashion Revolution. Join us, and Let Your Indie Out! Smashing Darling has teamed up with Papierdoll and Second City Style to give one lucky winner this giveaway valued at $500. Click here to enter.

GOOD LUCK!

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