Where would a fashionista be without a crew of style mavens keeping her up to date on the latest fashion trends coming out of the hottest design houses? Jenna Drew of DailyFashionistas.com makes sure today’s stylish femmes never have to find out. Searching high and low on the trendy social networking site, Twitter, she produced a list of 50 must-follow trendsetters with Taigan’s Twitter feed of tantalizing treasures making the cut.
With 34 one-of-kind boutiques under one Web site, Taigan pounds the pavement adding shops featuring unique gifts and fabulous fashion finds that will make any fashionista’s heart flutter. With new merchandise added daily and a trend discovering blog, “fetch”, helmed by Vogue alum Julia Reed, it’s easy to see why the Internet’s favorite fashion blog would count Taigan among the most style-forward to follow.
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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…

Just in time for Santa! Its like shopping the best a chic town has to offer without ever setting foot there. Taigan, a new, highly curated e-commerce boutique shopping site, provides access to stylish finds around the country that are unique to their locale. Under the creative direction of longtime Vogue writer and pro shopper, Julia Reed, Taigan, is named after a treasured hound from Kyrgyzystan. It is said to be a keen hunter and national treasure,as well as an endless seeker. This highly prized dog is their staunch logo. Continue Reading…

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…

It is a boutique shopper’s dream come true. Until now, browsing your favorite local or holiday destination’s stores required a trip uptown or cross-country, but in this very special Advent On the Range post, I am delighted to introduce my dear readers to Taigan…

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After catching up with noted author, professed gourmand and style arbiter Julia Reed, we may have come away loving her newest enterprise, Taigan, just as much as the proprietress herself. A quick perusal of the new members-only Web shopping portal, which just launched in September—with Mrs. Reed on board as Creative Director—reveals many of the penchants that she and AH&L editors share: those for stunning photography, quality writing and the finest that Atlanta has to offer. Continue Reading…

Fetch and Go! Online retailers are a dime a dozen. But when a site offers a carefully curated selection of merch (including several hot ATL boutiques like The Mercantile, Bungalow Classic, Sid Mashburn and Star Provisions), names Vogue writer, author and tastemaker Julia Reed as its creative director and derives its moniker from an exotic hound that hunts by using all of its senses, we take notice. Continue Reading…