The Internet’s best collection of online shops adds a premium membership with savings and privileges. Whether it’s fall fashion trends in boots and purses to art and photography collections to the most unique holiday gift ideas, interior design gems and even luxury pet accessories; Taigan shops have it first.

Nashville, TN — September 30, 2010 – –Taigan.com, a website dedicated to specialty shops, today introduces a premium membership for its growing collection of retail shops, designers and purveyors. In honor of its one-year anniversary, Taigan.com launches “Taigan Gold,” a premium level of membership for its online shopping members. While online shopping on Taigan is always free, Taigan Gold members will enjoy special savings online and in-store, plus invitations to signature events and more.

Taigan Gold membership was introduced today at $30 annually for the first 5,000 members. Taigan Gold members signing up before October 15^th will receive a $30 shopping credit towards their next purchase.

“The Taigan shoppers are an influential group who thrive on discovering and sharing wonderful finds – from fashion to home décor, gourmet food & wine to jewelry and more,” said Gretchen Howell, Taigan VP of Marketing.

The Taigan website goes beyond serving as just a shopping portal, the highly visual website is also matched with Fetch, the online magazine edited by Taigan Creative Director Julia Reed.

“Taigan shoppers are quick to engage with newly introduced shops, and return often to shops providing great customer service.  We wanted to provide a special benefit that recognizes this,” added Howell.

Taigan retailers are known for offering the first and most authoritative edited collections originating in destinations spanning from Aspen to New York to Italy. More than 40 Taigan shops are offering savings online and in-store to Taigan Gold members. To see the most recent benefits, visit http://www.taigan.com/taigan_gold_benefits.

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About Taigan

Named for the famed sight hound known for its keen hunting abilities, Taigan.com is a highly edited collection of the world’s best boutiques, designers and purveyors from across the country and abroad. Showcasing specialty retailers of women, mens and childrens’ fashion, home décor, art, antiques, jewelry, gourmet food and fine gifts, Taigan brings the best shops to your fingertips. Shopping is free, guests are asked to input their email address to be able to communicate directly with Taigan’s retailers.

Taigan.com makes it possible to shop and save at your favorite boutiques in Aspen, Los Angeles, Atlanta and New York under one address.

Looking fabulous, Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry opens up to writer Jonathan Van Meter in the September issue of Vogue. Berry discusses love, life and motherhood in her first lengthy interview in three years.

For the cover, Berry dons an Escada dark-plum velvet dress and Taigan’s own House of Lavande duet clips. House of Lavande is a vintage couture jewelry shop that has countless unique pieces from the 1920s and the 1950s to the 60s to the Studio 54 era and more.

For Lavande’s classic look and artisan standard, jewelry connoisseur Tracy travels the world, combing flea markets from Paris to London, estate sales and private dealer stock from Toronto to Beverly Hills to handpick the definitive bijou that has established House of Lavande as the premier name in vintage collectible costume jewelry.

We love this classic look on the stunning Berry! To see more classic and vintage House of Lavande pieces, visit them on Taigan.

Taigan introduces a new way to follow the best collection of online shops via the iPad. Following @TaiganFinds is a beautiful thing on an iPad via Flipboard, the world’s first personalized social magazine. Inspired by the beauty of print and designed for iPad, Flipboard transforms the social media experience like never before.

“Subscribing to Taiganfinds, best collection of online specialty shops,  via Twitter makes following online shopping from my iPad an easy flip! Julia Reed, 29 by Lydia Mondavi and Sid Mashburn are my new elusive finds on iPad’s Flipboard application,” said Lisa Buyer, Online PR expert from The Buyer Group.

Stay connected with TaiganFinds via Flipboard and see it in action!



Taigan, the highly edited collection of shops online, welcomes Napa Valley’s 29 by Lydia Mondavi to the health and beauty category. 29 by Lydia Mondavi is inspired by the extraordinary beauty of California’s Napa Valley and takes its name from the picturesque road that runs the length of this world-famous region-Highway 29.

Creator Lydia Mondavi innovated beauty and skincare products from the grapes that have long made this area famous. Celebrating the rich color palates and natural age protecting benefits of Napa’s finest grape seeds, 29 by Lydia Mondavi is for the elegant woman who understands the importance of nourishing mind, body and spirit. After all, Knowledge is Beautiful.™

Shop 29 by Lydia Mondavi and the growing collection of the country’s best shops, designers and purveyors, only on Taigan.com.

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All roads (and shopping) lead to Taigan’s new specialty retailer, Twenty Seven East (27E)  located exclusively in the Hamptons, and now on Taigan!  Named for the roadway that runs through the string of seaside towns in the Hamptons, Twenty Seven East delivers a chic, classic collection of bags, totes and clutches for all occasions. Crafted from such refined materials as alligator, calf, Nile crocodile, and Italian-milled canvas, the Twenty Seven East collection was created to capture the ease and classic style of the Hamptons: A place of exquisite beauty, glamour and natural grace.

Shop 27 E and the growing collection of the country’s best shops, designers and purveyors, only on Taigan.com.

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Specialty retailers tap into turnkey e-commerce solution and create an online community of the best shops and products online; stylized and edited by Creative Director Julia Reed.

Nashville, Tenn. – September 8, 2010 One year, 59 specialty boutique shops, thousands of designer items, 30,000 registered online shoppers from 128 countries later; Taigan.com celebrates its one-year anniversary. Taigan’s first 12 months add up to industry awards, editorial acclaim, online retail growth and international expansion – the exception to the norm in a sluggish bricks and mortar retail year. With 83 percent of consumers shopping online at least once a week, Taigan helps bridge the gap between savvy online shoppers and specialty retailers with an e-commerce solution that is catching the eye of investors, retailers, fashion industry media and shoppers.

A recent winner of the Retailer of Excellence Award in the Internet Innovation category, and a finalist for Technology Start-up of the Year, Taigan’s one year marks a list of milestones. As Reed reports the elusive fashion finds in Taigan’s Fetch, its exclusive online magazine aimed at the curated lifestyle; shoppers continue to find, follow and friend the online retailer on its social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter and multiple blogs.

Launched in September 2009, Taigan quickly grew into an international online shopping hub featuring a highly edited collection of shops in the US and abroad, representing designer apparel, gifts, home decor, gourmet food, wine, cigars and more. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Taigan welcomes shoppers from over 128 countries monthly, adding new shops and thousands of items each month.

From Tuscan olive oil grove in Tuscany to natural skin care and cosmetics like Woo skincare and cosmetics, to children’s designer shops in Aspen to notable menswear designer Sid Mashburn, Taigan gathers an eclectic yet well-heeled collection of talent and their wares.

“Taigan makes it possible for consumers to shop at their favorite boutiques and takes the pain away from retailers setting up individual e-commerce solutions. We’ve connected online shoppers with specialty retailers and designers all over the country and also globally,” said Taigan founder Elizabeth Nichols. “It is so gratifying to see some retailers who weren’t sure if they were going to weather the last yearn, now thriving on Taigan.”

As retailers look toward the rapidly approaching holidays, uptick in spending is predicted— consumers say they will be spending as much or more this holiday season compared to last according to experts at Compete.

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About Taigan

Named for the famed sight hound known for its keen hunting abilities, Taigan.com is a highly edited collection of the world’s best shops from across the country and abroad. Showcasing specialty retailers of women and men’s fashion, home décor, art, antiques, jewelry, gourmet food and fine gifts, Taigan brings the best shops to your fingertips. For the shopper, the collector, the epicure… Taigan delivers an extraordinary and ever-expanding collection of shops and purveyors. Shopping is free, guests are asked to provide their email address to use the site’s messaging service with Taigan shops.

It’s that designer time of year again! Taigan is following, tweeting and posting through Fashion Week. To kick it off, we share Fashion’s Night Out (FNO) 2010 PSA featuring 14 of the industries top models and directed by world renowned photographer Peter Lindbergh. The PSA was shot in locations throughout New York City and promotes not only the celebration on September 10, 2010, but the wonderful charity sale of t-shirts worn in the video benefit: The NYC AIDS Fund in the NY Community Trust.

Models featured include: Lily Donaldson, Jourdan Dunn, Chanel Iman, Liya Kebede, Miranda Kerr, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Karlie Kloss, Doutzen Kroes, Karolina Kurkova, Sasha Pivovarova, Joan Smalls, Lara Stone, Stella Tennant and Caroline Trentini. Follow on Twitter #FNO

Or find fashion coverage on TaiganFinds from feathers to animal prints to boots.