Forty Five Ten is one of the many specialty shops featured on Taigan.com. Founded in 2000, the name reiterates the boutique’s address on McKinney Avenue in Dallas, Texas. But for Taigan.com shoppers, it’s just a click away. The proud owners of this impressive shopping destination are Brian Bolke and Shelly Musselman. With major designer labels in Forty Five Ten, from Comme Des Garcons and Martin Margiela to the late-Alexander McQueen and more, they attract celebrity clientele to their Dallas shop including Oprah, Laura Bush, Gwyneth Paltrow, Melissa Etheridge, Angie Harmon and other noted style mavens.

Taigan shoppers can join this celebrity shopping group by shopping Forty Five Ten online, at Taigan.com. From fashionable apparel, accessories and shoes, to jewelry, sunglasses and bags. You’ll find Alejandro Ingelmo patent platform shoes, Rag and Bone grandpa cardigans, Yigal Azrouel, long sleeve tri-color knit dresses, Rebecca Lankford necklaces, Moschino Sequin dresses and so much more. Shopping at Forty Five Ten means discovering new fashion and apothecary and home accessories, with new items added every week on Taigan.
Perhaps best of all, the owners of Forty Five Ten also believe in giving back to the community. They proudly support The Family Place, the largest family violence service provider in Dallas that reaches out to family violence victims including women and children. Every year they feed over 50 kids every day and provide over 150,000 service hours. Owners Brian Bolke and Shelly Musselman also support amFAR, the foundation for aids research and the Dallas Museum of Art.

Forty Five Ten not only offers current fashion for women, but also for men. Stylish men will find a collection of designer shoes like the Victor and Rolf loafer and the bronze brushed leather lace-up shoe.
For more about Forty Five Ten, visit Taigan and shop a wide collection of style-forward boutiques across the country, finding the latest arrivals, special Taigan promotions and videos from owners and designers. Taigan allows you full access to a huge collection of fashionable shops all on the Internet, so you have access to an even broader range of boutiques and have more chances of buying that one unique piece that no one else will have.

Have a great shopping day!

I had a great experience on this new fashion Website my friend told me about. I was looking for days and days for a dress to wear to a close friend’s wedding. It was going to be in a huge reception hall with so many people, including old friends from high school so I really wanted to look good. Plus, I recently lost some weight and wanted to treat myself to a fashionable something special. But I looked around in my hometown of Jacksonville, Florida and couldn’t find anything that I really liked.

My friend told me about Taigan’s collection of boutique stores online. She told me that they had clothing stores from all over including Dallas, Nashville, New York and a few more places. So I decided it was worth looking into. So on a rainy Saturday afternoon, I became a Taigan member and browsed around the specialty clothing stores online. Kind of like window shopping, except on the Internet.

I visited a few of the different couture boutiques. I started with H. Audrey because my friend told me celebrities shop there. I also checked out the clothing on Gavin Evanston, but those outfits were more casual like skinny jeans, tees and blouses. I was looking more for a dress, something that will make a statement but still comfortable. The Mimi boutique on Taigan had more of what I was looking for. More upscale dresses, with nice silhouettes and quality materials. Plus, Mimi also carries designers so I browsed around the Michael Kors jersey dresses, the Kevan Hall dresses, the Marc Bouwer gowns until I landed on a must-have Herve Leger red band-aid stunner of a dress. It was more than I expected to pay, but it was gorgeous and I had to have it. So I pulled all my savings together and ordered it. Let me tell you, it fit perfectly, totally showed off my new figure and was a success at the wedding. I felt comfortable in my own skin and that was totally worth it.

I recommend visiting Taigan’s Website and becoming a Taigan member. You’ll find so many unique finds and fashionable items to replenish your closet. All online, all the time. Enjoy the shopping spree via the comforts of your home. This testimonial was by Gia C., Jacksonville, Florida.

One of the perks of writing StyleBlueprint is interviewing someone as compelling and funny as Julia Reed, the newly appointed creative director for Taigan. You may know her name from the 20 years she spent at Vogue.  Talk about passion:  it runs through her blood.  Her job is to keep Taigan members interested and coming back for more– can’t think of a better job for Julia. Continue Reading…

Attention all you lovers of the good life. Boy, do we have something for you. Taigan, a masterful, exclusive shopping site featuring unique, tasteful items from boutiques across the nation, has arrived. The brainchild of some well-known Nashvillians, Taigan is named after a tenacious sighthound, famed for its ability to seek and find the best game for its master.

Well, as I am creative director of a new retail website called TAIGAN.com (which the dear and always amazing Liz Smith so generously announced in her wOw column a few weeks ago), I am very high on online shopping right now.

Taigan differs from most online shopping sites in that it is not a retailer itself — it collects wonderful, one-of-a-kind boutiques that are already known for having great merchandise and great customer service and steers the shopper directly to them. It’s like being on the most well-edited, fabulous shopping street in the world (containing purveyors of everything from estate jewelry to cured meats and coffee), and once you are on it, you’re taken care of personally by these great visionary retailers and their staffs. Continue Reading…