September 2011
Less is more when it comes to this online shopping emporium, a collection of carefully chosen high-end shops available at one Web address. House of Lavande vintage jewelry, Ann Koerner Antiques, and Sucre of New Orleans are just a few of the specialty retailers (taigan.com).
Noted e-commerce website TAIGAN.com today launched a new design. The updated online shopping site presents new functionality, design elements and intuitive tools.
Touted as the online destination for a growing collection of hand-selected boutiques, designers and purveyors, Taigan currently hosts over 100 retailers and designers. The site deftly leverages the collective power of its retailers, recently garnering significant media coverage and enjoying a rapidly growing global shopping audience.
The updated website introduces new features and tools for shoppers, facilitating shopping across the 100+ shops and designers currently hosted on the site. For the launch, style icon and Lincoln Center Fashion Director Stephanie Winston Wolkoff selects her essential summer finds. From the homepage, shoppers can also access Taigan’s publications: Fetch Magazine, produced by Taigan’s creative director and celebrated former Vogue alum Julia Reed, and Taigan Finds, a daily style and information blog.
Taigan’s shops represent a premium collection of jewelry, health and beauty products, gourmet food, boutique wines, sporting life accessories, and men’s, women’s and children’s apparel.
ABOUT TAIGAN
Named for the prized breed of hunting dog from Kyrgyzstan that tirelessly hunts for the best game its master desires, Taigan.com is the online shopping destination for a highly curated collection of boutiques, designers and purveyors. Launched in late 2009, the e-commerce website has been celebrated by fashion editors and high-end consumers, and has reported 350% year over year growth. Taigan is touted as the only lifestyle e-commerce site featuring specialty retailers and designers in 11 categories, including women and men’s fashion, home decor, art, antiques, jewelry, sporting life, gourmet food and wine, and fine gifts. For the shopper, the collector, the epicure, Taigan presents an extraordinary and ever-expanding collection of shops and purveyors.
Have you ever traveled to a city and discovered a local boutique or shop that was so good you wished you could shop it online after you headed back home? Well, that may just be possible with shopping site Taigan.com. Get the lowdown and find out why we’re officially obsessed, after the jump!
Originally launched in 2009, Taigan is an online aggregator of the country’s best local boutiques; offering everything from men’s and women’s fashion to food and wine, home decor, antiques, and jewelry.
Shopping the site is fairly easy with the option to shop by category (i.e. apparel, food, health & beauty) or by boutique (easy for seeing if your local fave is present). Once you click on a shop, you’re given a quick rundown of its physical location(s) and contact info, and a “shop now” button that allows you to (you guessed it) start shopping the store’s goodies.
So what are our faves? My personal pick is 100% Capri, a store that I couldn’t get enough of on my honeymoon when I visited the island; now, looking through its e-store is like taking a mini-vacation! Other faves of mine include L.A. boutique Beige, and Miami store Curve Soleil—true STF haunts!
Ok ladies, take a peek around the site and tell us which boutiques are your faves. Is your favorite local store featured? Would you use Taigan to score one-of-a-kind finds?
Source: http://www.glamour.com/fashion/blogs/slaves-to-fashion/2011/06/our-latest-online-shopping-obs.html#ixzz1PM7QWOba
Gourmet chocolate, vintage designer jewelry, romantic poems, luxurious pajamas, rare books, and an escape to heavenly Blackberry Farm can only be found on Taigan.com for Valentine’s Day shopping, your online destination for the best gifts.
It’s the Nicholas Kirkwood for Rodarte—AKA jaw-dropping high heels and the breathtaking circa 1980 Chanel gold hoop earrings that leave a lasting impression…
For the love of shopping, gift giving and Valentine’s Day, Taigan announces its 2011 Valentine’s Day gift ideas for the online boutique shopper. Online shoppers looking for the unique and original turn to Taigan.com, a marketplace of 82 independent specialty and boutique retailers in places like Los Angeles, Aspen, Chicago, Dallas, Nashville, New York—and even Italy!
Just because Saint Valentine was martyred doesn’t mean shopping for the namesake holiday should be dreaded. Taigan goes beyond the cliché flowers-and-chocolate to celebrate Valentine’s Day by offering unique gift options that express your love all year round.
Taigan’s Valentine’s Day Picks for men:
Aidan Gill Ivory Complete Grooming Set
Taigan’s Valentine’s Day Picks for women:
“Le Temps” Deco Rhinestone Bracelet
Two Night Escape at Blackberry Farm with Taigan Shopping Spree
Pucci Vintage Art Edition (Book)
Tocca Candele de Viaggio Travel Size Candle Set
Irene Neuwirth Rose De France Earring
Empire waisted silk/cotton blend Lux Sleep Dress
For the Love of Chocolate Collection + Perrier Jouet Grand Brut
Stay connected with up-to-date fashion news on TaiganFinds blog, Tweet @TaiganFinds on Twitter and “Like” Taigan on Facebook.
About Taigan
A recent 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 fine gifts, Julia Reed delivers a collection of Elusive Finds, facts and profiles in Taigan’s fetch, Taigan’s online lifestyle magazine. Shopping is free, guests are asked to provide their email address to use the site’s messaging service with shops.
Kids know what they want; and now, thanks to luxury childrenswear designer, Bonnie Young on Taigan, they can get it.
Preteens, unlike their older adolescent counterparts, are more comfortable being their unique selves. Their lives are not yet confused with the stresses of puberty and the need to fit in by assimilating and conforming to trends. On the contrary, they strive to set them.
“I began my company because I understood that children today are moving so quickly,” explained Bonnie Young who was still the senior creative director for the Donna Karan Collection when she launched her eponymous line. “They have their individual tastes, they see more, they are more sophisticated and have a strong desire for the latest fashion trend.”
Donna Karan had given her colleague and friend 600 sq feet of the Donna Karan Collection boutique on Madison Ave to create a Bonnie Young shop-in-shop. However, by the end of 2007, investors saw the potential in Young’s bespoke designs and approached her to open her first freestanding store in Aspen, Colorado.
“At that point I left Donna Karan to focus solely on my brand. Donna was extremely supportive in the decision,” stated Young.
Young admitted she probably would have never started her own clothing line if she hadn’t become a mother. “I never thought of designing for kids until I became a mother and felt there was a space in the market,” she confessed. “I couldn’t find what I wanted for my kids so I made it myself and then organically turned it into a business.”
She also admitted that working so closely with Donna Karan has influenced her both aesthetically and as an individual. “Not only did I work with her for almost 17 years, but we were family: we traveled for business as well as spent holidays together.”
Young stated that there has always been a strong synergy between the two designers; yet, she still approaches fashion quite differently and has a unique perspective in fashion — one that can easily be seen in her designs for Bonnie Young. “For sure, we are inspired by the same things yet our interpretation is different.”
The new major influences in Young’s life may not be recipients of a CFDA Lifetime Achievement Award, but they still seem to know what’s in vogue in the fashionable world of tweens. “My children are very opinionated and I see what they love and want to wear.”
Her studio is attached to her loft so her daughter and son are a very big part of what goes on every afternoon, admitted the designer. “Kids of today are growing up in an age of information: the Internet and computers allow them to no longer be just kids from the town where they live,” she explained. “They are citizens of the world and that is an enormous change from our generation.”
Young’s designs are bringing families together in that both parent and child can finally agree on something. During the period in childhood when truces are rare and battles over uneaten vegetables at the dinner table are commonplace, agreeing on the daily ritual of clothing is a welcome relief. Young’s use of comfortable, child-friendly fabrics and her obvious attention to detail, make both concerned parties happy.
“I generally tend to use natural fibers, but I do not restrict myself so long as the fabric is comfortable and does not itch,” said Young, sounding more like a mother than a designer. She quickly reaffirmed her fashion prowess with the mention of her love for Indian embroideries and rich materials. “I use luxurious fabrics. My knits are mostly made of cashmere or Alpaca and the wovens are often of cotton or silk.”
But Young’s clothes are not just for the mom who is frustrated over unheeded appeals for her children to wear those matching itchy wool sweaters for the annual family portrait. They also seem to strike a style cord with the fashionista mommy who doesn’t mind spending on designer brands for her children. “If a woman is in Chanel couture, she certainly wants her child wearing something equally as divine and that isn’t easy to find,” stated Young. “So, they come to me to create it for them.”
Since Young’s designs are almost already couture, she is often commissioned for weddings and special occasions, especially in the tween sizes. “It’s just really hard to find beautiful occasion clothes for kids and tweens.”
Anyone who knows anything about the Middle East knows how much the Middle East loves a wedding. So, it should be no surprise that most of Young’s loyal clientele hail from the Arab world. “They love to discover the latest designer. They appreciate rich fabrics, really love fashion and will spend the money to have a superior product,” she said, admitting that the Middle Eastern market differs greatly from its Western counterpart. “However, many of my clients in the West are actually from the Middle East.”
Young regards her Middle Eastern consumers as being the most fashion forward clients in the industry. Perhaps it was this love and praise of the Middle East’s fashion sense that brought the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar and Young together. Last year, she was commissioned to design an exclusive collection for the temporary exhibit, “A Journey into the World of the Ottomans.” She created 12 collectible jelabas cut out of rare antique Ottoman silk textiles, which were part of a wedding dowry she came across in Istanbul. She also designed limited edition necklaces that coordinate with the silks as they are made from 12th century Ottoman coins wrapped in 18k gold.
Young also included a series that was presented later on in December called Scriptures of Hope. “I was inspired in Istanbul by some Ottoman pieces with Quranic scripture,” said Young who initially wanted to directly interpret the scriptures onto the clothes, but discovered it wasn’t feasible for religious reasons.
Instead, Young recreated the aesthetic of the scriptures by commissioning an Islamic calligrapher to write messages of peace, hope and compassion in Arabic calligraphy. “Of course not understanding Arabic writing met with some great challenges,” she confessed. “It has been one of the most challenging projects so far.”
Although she admits the printmaking was a bit arduous, she had no problem with the actual design of the traditional garment. “I am very comfortable designing jelabas and kaftans. I have collected so many over the years and I love to wear them so I felt totally comfortable [when it came to designing].”
Her travels inspire who she is as well as what she creates every moment of her life, claims the designer whose inspiration for the styling of the lookbook of her Fall 2010 collection was a combination from George Lucas’ Star Wars and the incredible architecture and buildings in Qatar.
“I had never seen anything like it in my life: modern glass structures adorned with incredible metals in the middle of the desert. It was very futuristic indeed,” stated Young. “What I felt in Qatar reminded me of Star Wars and being that I have a five-year old son, I have seen every episode at least 10 times.”
Young can’t help but revert back to her kids as a source of inspiration. As a mother and designer, she admits children today are losing their fashion innocence at even earlier ages than ever before. “Our daughter knew who Dolce and Gabanna were at age three. She called them ‘chingabanna’ and wanted to wear ‘chingabanna’ shoes everyday,” she fondly recalled. “Our son is five and loves to wear Y3. He thinks it’s the coolest thing. His dad wears it so he wants to as well. It’s shocking that they have all this knowledge at such a young age.”
Kids are definitely more aware of what they like. Disney character adorned shirts are now being traded for demands of Baby Dior and Kenzo. And, if they see Bonnie Young’s latest collection on Taigan, there’s no doubt about it: they’re probably going to demand that too!
by Kim Gebbia
Over the holiday many shoppers found a way to snag shopping deals without ever setting foot in a store on Cyber Monday.
The sales promotions on the Monday after Thanksgiving got their name from a retail trade group, which promoted the idea that people, upon returning to work, would log onto their computers there and shop.
Although Belmont sophomore Shannon Murphy had never heard of Cyber Monday before, all it took was opening her email inbox to find out.
“It’s today only, free ground shipping on all orders. 30 percent off if you buy a certain amount of tea. And a free mug if you get a certain dollars worth,” Murphy said as she read the offers.
For many stores, the strategy worked. More than enough people clicked that precious “purchase” button and committed to buy.
Elizabeth Nichols, the CEO for the newly launched Brentwood web site, Taigan, said stores are succeeding at luring online shoppers.
“I think clearly the marketplace is trying to put into the mind of the consumer–this is the day to shop online,” Nichols said. “We’ve offered a free shipping holiday that ends today and interestingly Taigan drives people to make the decision to purchase as opposed to waiting until tomorrow.”
Taigan represents 82 speciality shops with unique items from across Tennessee and the U.S.
Sales over the holiday weekend hit a new high for the site. It plays a role in the estimated $1 billion in online sales happening on Cyber Monday.
For more on Taigan CEO Elizabeth Nichol’s interview click here: http://www.newschannel5.com/story/13579850/cyber-monday-lures-online-shoppers
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Taigan.com introduces Mona Moore, featuring meticulously selected shoes and handbags
Montreal, Canada – December 14, 2010 – Paris, Milan, New York and now Taigan.com are destinations for runway designer shoes and handbags. Canada and California-based luxury shoe and handbag store Mona Moore debuts online at Taigan.com, the Internet’s best shopping district of online specialty shops, designers and purveyors. Offering the most discerning shoppers a place to find their perfect seasonal must-haves, Mona Moore’s collection is carefully curated to represent beauty, elegance, and style, with a consistently avant-garde sophistication.
Mona Moore is where the dream of style, beauty, elegance and the cutting edge coalesces in a collection of shoes and handbags. Shop among the coveted lines of Balenciaga, Dries Can Noten, Marni and Rick Owens, and see why the shop has been featured in The New York Times, Style Magazine, Vogue Daily, Daily Candy, Lucky Magazine, and Elle.
Specialty retailers like Mona Moore are tapping into Taigan’s hand-picked community of the best shops, brands and products online; styled and edited by Creative Director, Julia Reed.
About Mona Moore and Owners Anna Varriano and Lisa Bush
Anna Varriano and Lisa Bush say it’s the shoes and bags that really make the outfit. They describe their sensibility as “unusual beauty with an edge.” Strong advocates of supporting the old fashioned shoe makers of Italy, the two believe that one pair of Italian made leather boots is worth a million mass produced pairs. With boutiques in Montreal and Venice, California, the store first opened on Montreal’s Golden Mile in the fall of 2002. Anna and Lisa travel to Paris, Milan and New York four times a year to purchase a meticulously edited selection of the best styles from the best designers.
About Taigan
A recent 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 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. Julia Reed delivers a collection of Elusive Finds, facts and profiles in Taigan’s fetch, Taigan’s online lifestyle magazine. Shopping is free, guests are asked to provide their email address to use the site’s messaging service with shops.
For more Taigan news, subscribe to the Taigan newsroom, stay connected on Taigan’s Facebook Fan Page or Follow us on Twitter @TaiganFinds.
Cyber Monday was the icing on the cake for Taigan.com’s already record-breaking month of November. The hunt started here for hundreds of specialty retail shoppers looking for holiday gifts this past Cyber Monday.
Taigan was part of what comScore called a “Billion Dollar Bonanza” as Cyber Monday sales surpassed $1 billion. That’s up 16 percent from a year ago and represents the heaviest online spending day in history, with sales passing the billion-dollar mark for the first time.
Taigan has created such a buzz on the specialty retail shopping scene leading up to Cyber Monday that the local print and broadcast media came calling on Taigan CEO, Elizabeth Nichols, looking for her thoughts on the popular online shopping day.
It’s certainly no surprise that consumers looking for specialty retail items swarmed the site on Cyber Monday. Perhaps most encouraging is that the month of October and November were so significantly up for the curated shopping site. “We were thrilled to offer our shoppers free shipping on Cyber Monday. However, we have seen significant shopping throughout the last two months, regardless of promotion – by both loyal and new shoppers..,” says Nichols.
Nichols attributes the buzz to a combination of shopper optimism, the addition of over 30 new shops to the site in the past two months, and to significant recent media attention.
From being named Best of the Web for gifts by InStyle Magazine, to winning the Retailer of Excellence Award in the Internet Innovation category, and recently awarded Technology Start-up of the Year accolade, Taigan is recognized by retailers, consumers and industry media as the online shopping destination for a highly curated collection of boutiques, designers and purveyors.
“With the addition of 30 specialty retailers and designers in the last two months, shoppers now recognize that we continue to locate the best of the best, to showcase on the site,” Nichols explains. “While our retailer standards for acceptance onto Taigan remain especially high, we are being approached by more fantastic retailers and designers every week, and will continue to these great retailers, designers and craftsmen as we find them.”
Early reports claim Taigan’s November sales grew in excess of 200 percent over the previous month, and represent the strongest month in the site’s 13-month history.
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Online Shoppers Looking for Unique or Specialty Gifts Are Shopping at Taigan.com; Named Best of the Web 2010 for Gifts by InStyle Magazine.
Taigan announces its 2010 most unique holiday gift ideas designed to top the list of online boutique shoppers. Online shoppers looking for the unique and original turn to the web address Taigan.com; a marketplace of 88 independent specialty retailers and growing from places across the United States and abroad. Taigan and its shops have been recognized by Elle Décor, Departures magazine and The New York Times.
Taigan celebrates the holidays in style by offering some cost-accessible unique gifts in a variety of categories:
Home/Entertaining:
Match Pewter Martini Glasses: http://www.taigan.com/shops/themercantile/videos/536/items/3774
Speckled Green Glass Wine Cooler: http://www.taigan.com/shops/digs/items/11898
Waylande Gregory Gold Extra Small Zebra Bowl: http://www.taigan.com/shops/elementschicago/items/13131
William Yeoward Country Funnel: http://www.taigan.com/shops/hollyhock/items/2230
Horn and Sterling Silver Salad Servers: http://www.taigan.com/shops/imperiojp/items/12336
Small Orange Lizard Keepsake Box: http://www.taigan.com/shops/nibahome/items/9073
Horn Photo Frame: http://www.taigan.com/shops/nibahome/items/9059
Bamboo Pate Knife: http://www.taigan.com/shops/themercantile/videos/703/items/8801
Food & Wine
The Flock Box Wine Sampler: http://www.taigan.com/shops/blackbirdvineyards/videos/965/items/12844
Very Merry Holiday Macaroons: http://www.taigan.com/shops/sucre/items/2558
Wine For All Gift Set: http://www.taigan.com/shops/wineforall/items/11874
Tea for Two Gift Set: http://www.taigan.com/shops/partnerstea/items/12039
Chocolate and Cheese Gift Set: http://www.taigan.com/shops/stjamescheese/items/12795
Everyday Honey Gift Set: http://www.taigan.com/shops/savannahbee/items/11785
Blackberry Breakfast Gift Box: http://www.taigan.com/shops/blackberryfarm/items/12573
Misc. Gifts
Pink Tweed Dog Coat: http://www.taigan.com/shops/comesitstay/items/10633
Modern Alchemy Candle Gift Set: http://www.taigan.com/shops/sanctuaryofstyle/items/12141
Wooden Horse Ornament: http://www.taigan.com/shops/andgeorge/items/12724
Diptyque John Galliano Paris Candle: http://www.taigan.com/shops/revival/items/4667
Perdomo Habano Toro: http://www.taigan.com/shops/rslipmancigarandsmokeshop/items/9929
Orla Kiely Laptop Skin: http://www.taigan.com/shops/starprovisions/items/9520
Black Leather Studded iPhone Case: http://www.taigan.com/shops/churchboutique/items/12237
Children’s Pom Pom Hat: http://www.taigan.com/shops/shopodile/items/12927
Glass Egg Ornament: http://www.taigan.com/shops/digs/items/13377
Women’s
Tocca Eau De Parfum Touch: http://www.taigan.com/shops/wooskincareandcosmetics/items/7914
Elizabeth and James Feather Earrings: http://www.taigan.com/shops/elementschicago/items/9817
Sam Edelman Novato Heel: http://www.taigan.com/shops/sanctuaryofstyle/items/12627
Simple Bronze Necklace: http://www.taigan.com/shops/gabrielle/items/13597
Travel Essential Brush Collection: http://www.taigan.com/shops/29cosmetics/items/10105
Trina Turk Jewel Encrusted Ring
http://www.taigan.com/shops/gavin/items/9728
Quill and Hand-Beaded Earrings: http://www.taigan.com/shops/rodeo/items/13658
Men’s
100% Silk Bow Tie: http://www.taigan.com/shops/peterelliot/items/6801
Tortoise Shaving Brush: http://www.taigan.com/shops/aidangill/items/7150
Filson Tan Travel Kit: http://www.taigan.com/shops/sidmashburn/videos/317/items/1810
Brass Oyster Belt Buckle: http://www.taigan.com/shops/sidmashburn/items/3222
Scrabble Cufflinks: http://www.taigan.com/shops/aidangill/items/7230
About Taigan
A recent 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 fine gifts, Julia Reed delivers a collection of Elusive Finds, facts and profiles in Taigan’s fetch, Taigan’s online lifestyle magazine. Shopping is free, guests are asked to provide their email address to use the site’s messaging service with shops.
For more Taigan news, subscribe to the Taigan newsroom, stay connected on Taigan’s Facebook Fan Page or Follow us on Twitter @TaiganFinds.
Chicago’s most charming and chic new destination for children’s wear has a new online shop among Taigan’s carefully curated collection of shops.
Odile Luxury Children’s Boutique, named Chicago Magazine’s “Best New Children’s Boutique” for 2010, is now online at Taigan.com, the Internet’s best shopping district of online specialty shops, designers and purveyors. From its posh location in Chicago’s Gold Coast, Odile has been recognized as the leading source of imported heirloom and classic children’s apparel and accessories from around the world, bringing classic, well-crafted children’s wear back into style. Elegant, simple-yet-luxuriously-produced pieces that will be the signature outfits for your little ones.
With the introduction of Odile’s online store on Taigan, now shoppers can visit a chic new destination for charming children’s wear from the comfort of their own home. Odile’s mantra is to dress children like children, celebrate tradition, quality construction and deliver exceptional customer service.
Specialty retailers like Odile Luxury Children’s Boutique are tapping into Taigan’s turnkey e-commerce solution to be part a hand-picked community of the best shops, brands and products online; styled and edited by Creative Director, Julia Reed.
About Odile Luxury Children’s Boutique and Owner Camille Cozzini
Odile provides a welcoming sanctuary in the heart of Chicago’s posh Gold Coast. Open for only a year, Odile has already cemented itself as the epitome of a high-end children’s clothing store. The perfect place to outfit stylish little ladies and gents in such labels as Le Nouveau, Chupeta and La Stupenderia, it’s easy to see why it was named Chicago Magazine’s “Best New Children’s Boutique” for 2010.
About Taigan
A recent 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 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. Julia Reed delivers a collection of Elusive Finds, facts and profiles in Taigan’s fetch, Taigan’s online lifestyle magazine. Shopping is free, guests are asked to provide their email address to use the site’s messaging service with shops.
For more Taigan news, subscribe to the Taigan newsroom, stay connected on Taigan’s Facebook Fan Page or Follow us on Twitter @TaiganFinds.
