Taigan, a highly edited collection of online shops, continues to create online shopping experiences with the rollout of new interactive style blog TaiganFinds

Nashville, TN – February 14, 2011 –Taigan recently launched the redesign of TaiganFinds.com style, fashion and shopping blog. The latest stages of the revamp include a new homepage and sections such as What’s New, Fashion, Home, Gifts, Heath and Beauty, Food & Drink, Retail Shop Profiles and News and Updates. One of the more popular sections on TaiganFinds is New This Week, a front-page summary highlighting some of the latest arrivals on the specialty retail shopping website. Fashion covers interesting exposés on Investment pieces worth the splurge to How to travel in style from shoes to toiletries.

Known for its hand-picked collection of shops, designers and purveyors offering limited production specialty items in fashion, home, gourmet food, boutique wineries and more, the specialty online marketplace launched in 2009 and now represents more than 80 boutique shops and designers/purveyors in 11 different categories. The TaiganFinds blog is the second editorial blog for Taigan, which also publishes Julia Reed’s Fetch – a magazine-style collection of musings from famed tastemakers, lifestyle mavens and the always thought-provoking Reed.

The TaiganFinds blog new design mirrors the shopping website’s commitment to building community through a fresh interpretation of the fashion, lifestyle, interior design and foodie worlds.

“Providing meaningful editorial content is another way to engage the Taigan community and connect the independent voices of our shoppers, designers, retailers, fashion bloggers and industry elite.Online shopping can be oversaturated with content – we improved TaiganFinds to curate online shopping and celebrate the independent small shop owner, designer and purveyor,” said Taigan VP of Marketing, Gretchen Howell.

Visually, TaiganFinds is a fashion-forward style-sheet blog offeringvivid imagery and is fresh, easy to navigate, and extraordinarily engaging. The content — with tiers of editorial expertise, links, video, call-outs, socialmedia streams— is compelling to every type of online user: the shopper, contributor, and editorial retail world.

Many Taigan shops and their collections cannot be found anywhere else online. Fashion, gourmet food, wine, decor, art, jewelry and beauty- it’s all in one place, Taigan.com.

About

Editorially noted in InStyle, Departures, Elle Décor, winner of the Retailer of Excellence Award in the Internet Innovation category and named Technology Start-up of the Year, Taigan is recognized as the online shopping destination for a highly curated collection of boutiques, designers and purveyors.  Showcasing specialty retailers of women and men’s fashion, home décor, art, antiques, jewelry, gourmet food and wine and fine gifts, bringing the best shops to your fingertips. For the shopper, the collector, the epicure…  delivering an extraordinary and ever-expanding collection of shops and purveyors.  Creative Director Julia Reed delivers a collection of Elusive Finds, facts and profiles in Taigan’s fetch, online lifestyle magazine. Shopping is free, guests are asked to provide their email address to use the site’s messaging service with shops.

Stylists, editors, models and the rock elite celebrate the creations from Michael Spirito’s fashion-forward, timeless jewelry collection, now available on Taigan.com.

Michael Spirito has launched a new shop on Taigan.com.  Seen on the covers of Elle, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan and Lucky Magazine, jewelry designer Michael Spirito has crafted edgy, futuristic pieces for the biggest and brightest stars in music and film, including Beyonce, Gwen Stefani, Britney Spears, Jessica Alba, Sigourney Weaver, and Cher.

Ranging from edgy serpents and scorpions to fine jewelry creations, Spirito’s vibrant, wearable works are ambitious and elegant at the same time. Combinations of oxidized sterling silver melded with pure gold, a melange of colored sapphires, diamonds, rubies, vibrant Tsavorite, Fire Opals and Rainbow Moonstones give the pieces an inner glow that seemingly lights the jewelry from within.

Spirito is famous for his regal, rock-inspired pieces. He meticulously hand-makes his works of art at his studio in NYC, ensuring the work remains wholly unique and exceedingly special, enhancing the personal style of all whom it adorns.

Michael Spirito is the most recent in a long line of designers and specialty retailers who have discovered the online shopping community. Taigan is a sophisticated shopping portal seeking special, unique and hard-to-find items from jewelry to apparel, boutique wineries, gourmet food and home décor and more.

For more Taigan Finds, subscribe to the Taigan Finds blog, stay connected on Taigan’s Facebook Fan Page or Follow us on Twitter @TaiganFinds.

About Michael Spirito

Since his first collection won the Gen Art Design Vision award in 2001, Michael Spirito has been considered a vanguard of jewelry design. His legendary store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, ‘Exhibitionist’, was a haven for stylists, editors, models and the rock elite. Formally accepted by the mainstream with his induction into the CFDA in 2007, Michael’s work has integrated edgy futuristic jewelry into society’s visual conscious. His work has graced the necks and fingers of the biggest and brightest stars in music and film for over a decade.

About Taigan

Editorially noted in InStyle, Departures, Elle Décor, winner of the Retailer of Excellence Award in the Internet Innovation category and named Technology Start-up of the Year, Taigan is recognized as the online shopping destination for a highly curated collection of boutiques, designers and purveyors.  Showcasing specialty retailers of women and men’s fashion, home décor, art, antiques, jewelry, gourmet food and wine and fine gifts, bringing the best shops to your fingertips. For the shopper, the collector, the epicure…  delivering an extraordinary and ever-expanding collection of shops and purveyors.  Creative Director Julia Reed delivers a collection of Elusive Finds, facts and profiles in Taigan’s fetch, online lifestyle magazine. Shopping is free, guests are asked to provide their email address to use the site’s messaging service with shops.