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Mo

Designer Toobox #4

by Mo on May 15, 2008

New Darling Ricardo Tovar

Hats off to Anne De Pasquale

New Darling Bags by Peep

New Darling Beads – Yellowplum

Community News and new darlings

Welcome new darling designers, we are so glad to have you with us! From as nearby as Astoria, Queens and Providence, RI, north to Belfast, Maine, south to Philly, west to Chicago and all the way out to Hawaii…show us your indie – everywhere! To all of our darling designers – get to know us a bit better and read the latest Darling interview at SFindiefashion.com, and be sure to comment and tell us what you think!
Put your hands together for Lara Miller whose eco-friendly designs will be featured on the show Big Ideas for a Small Planet, read more here. Don’t stop clapping yet…Karelle Levy, aka KRELwear just won Style Wars in Tribeca, NYC…be sure to check out NYTimes images here! Go Darlings, go!

New Darling K Flynn

New Darling Yana

how to – SHOUT IT OUT

Change is in the air. We are redesigning Your House for Indie Fashion, and we don’t want you to be lost in your own home! SDv2 is looking mighty fine, and we hope for it to be up and running around the beginning of June. Be sure your store is current and up-to-date! Here is what to expect:
1) Shoppers will be able to shop a new juried section of the site -the best of the best- here are the criteria:
- Minimum of 10 items in the store
- Uploading new items quarterly
- High quality images
- Inventory kept current with available items
- Have a complete profile
Email us if you would like to be considered.

Other new features

2) Bye bye forums and hello Indie Fashion Event Directory. This new feature will make it much easier for you to upload your own indie events (and events in your area). Therefore Darlings everywhere will be creating a comprehensive list of indie fashion events happening across the country – all in one place.

3) Mini blogs!

Okay here is our favorite. Around the time of the launch or shortly after you will have access to a new mini blog right in your account! Very easily you will be able to keep everyone that stops by your store up to date. Darling shoppers and designers will be able to stop buy your store and see what is going on, strike up a convo with you, collaborate with you, and find out what you are up to next. Fabulous!

Some Erhart Menswear

Kitten Miami Knickerbockers

Photo Critiques

Typically we would would be giving you the next round of photo – how to – in this spot. But with all the change happening around Smashing Darling, we want to make sure you are aware of one already happening. Julie Darling has started regular Monday Photo Critiques, simply put, they are really great, and very important. If you haven’t read the first two yet, take a second and do so in the blog. It is great to be having conversations with you all, be sure to leave a comment. Suggest someone’s store to be critiqued next week (or volunteer your own) by emailing: julie[at]smashingdarling[dot]com. We promise to always be nice and offer ideas and suggestions that we genuinely think will help take your photography (and hopefully your sales!) to the next level.

Have any questions? Just let us know:

trishandjulie@smashingdarling.com

cheers ~ the Darlings

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trish

Sundance Channel’s “The Green” Does Fashion

by trish on May 7, 2008

I stumbled across this post while perusing Twitter and thought it was an important topic for our community.
There are a lot of good links and videos to watch.

Written by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg
Writer for Sustainablog
May 6, 2008

After previewing tonight’s episode of the Sundance Channel’s Big Ideas for a Small Planet, I couldn’t help but think that this week’s topic — fashion — tied in very closely with last week’s show on food. After all, we all eat, and we all dress. Our clothes, like our food, generally start off as crops in fields, and the process of transforming those crops into garments typically involves heavy chemical inputs and many miles traveled (especially in this era of globalization). The fashion industry has a heavy environmental footprint, but a number of designers and manufacturers are challenging those norms, and creating clothing that’s both fashionable and sustainable. Take a sneak peak at one of these companies featured in tonight’s episode: Del Forte Denim…

click here to read the full thought provoking post about the impact the fashion industry has on the environment and what companies are doing to change.

Stay tuned for Chicago based smashing designer Lara Miller she will be featured on the show Big Ideas for a Small Planet. The show will now be airing Tuesday June 10, 2008 at 9 pm Eastern.

…also making a difference, designers of Funk Divine are using such fabrics as hemp and organic cotton. Type in eco fashion or recycled to find the many designers in our community doing their part to change the impact of fashion on the environment.

Black Hemp and Organic Cotton Zip-up jacket

We are all in the fashion business, buying or selling, I would love to hear you. What are your thoughts on trying to lessen the damage to the environment. It can be small. It is one small act at a time that can add up to something big. Please share, you may give someone an idea they haven’t thought of already.

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