Taigan, the highly edited online collection of specialty shops, lets you be the fashion editor using Polyvore, the web’s largest fashion community. Take your fashion, interior design and art imagination to a new virtual level to win a $200 Taigan shopping spree.

Nashville, TN – March 15, 2011 – Calling all fashion editors and want-to-be fashion editors! Taigan introduced its first Polyvore Designer #Fashion Competition, a contest for fashion, interior design and art that lets you play personal stylist with Polyvore styling tool and Taigan.com’s collection of 80 specialty shops and designers. Whether you’re sharing runway fashion, your personal style or street style, Taigan wants to celebrate spring in style with Polyvore’s easy-to-use clipping tools and Taigan’s fashion, decor and accessories.

Polyvore is the web’s largest fashion community where people can discover their style and set trends around the world. Create a look using any combination of items from Taigan’s designer shops for an opportunity to win a $200 Taigan shopping spree. Many Taigan specialty shops and their one-of-a-kind collections cannot be found anywhere else online. Fashion, gourmet food, wine, decor, art, jewelry and beauty – it’s all in one place, Taigan.com.

The Taigan Polyvore Stylist rules are as follows:

●      Create an outfit using the very simple Polyvore editor (http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/app)

○      Check out how to use the Polyvore editor in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYzy1Cewbjc

●      All items must be from Taigan.com for your chance to win $200

●      Winner will be featured in the Official Taigan Blog: TaiganFinds.com and Facebook Fan Page

●      Post your ‘set’ to the Taigan Facebook page: http://www.Facebook.com/TaiganFinds

●      There is no limit to entries per person; so let your creative juices flow!

●      The best collection wins!!

Deadline for entry is April 1, 2011. Entries are to be posted on Taigan’s Facebook Fan Page and will be judged by Taigan Creative Director Julia Reed and a panel of editor-judges.

Here are some example collections:

1. http://www.polyvore.com/spring_fling/set?id=28817221
2. http://www.polyvore.com/untitled/set?id=28925601

Award-winning and editorially acclaimed by publications including InStyle and Departures, Taigan brings the small exclusive collections of the best boutiques and designers together in one place, inviting shoppers to access new fashion the moment it arrives in store, and access to items otherwise not available online.

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

About Polyvore

Polyvore’s community of tastemakers engages with millions of products from across the web every day. With 7 million monthly unique visitors, trendsetters and shoppers alike, Polyvore helps the fashion maven discover the hottest brands, products, trends and looks. Its global community has created over 20 million fashion sets that are shared across the site.

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.

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.

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!



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.

Fabulous trays, distinctive serving pieces, elegant cutlery and beautifully crafted serving bowls are part of Taigan’s summer party on the patio according to Julia Reed, Taigan.com’s Creative Director.

Miami, FL – July 6, 2010 - The trends this summer bring dining and entertaining back home al fresco style, according to Julia Reed, Creative Director of Taigan.com. Taigan features dining and entertaining collections by specialty retail shops such as Digs, Hollyhock, Georgia Tapert Living, Revival, Haven, Niba Home and more.

Now serving at Taigan.com are these 7 must haves for summer:

1. Serving Trays! Taigan Digs these trays
Digs’ vibrant green enameled tray and charming rattan tray can be used for carrying serving bowls or as a centerpiece when paired with floral arrangements.

Nashville-based Digs on Taigan.com specializes in antiques, custom lightings home furnishings, great gifts, pottery and lamps.

2. The Dish from South Of Market: Serve in style
South Of Market’s white ceramic rectangular serving dish enclosed in a woven basket adds a classic touch. It’s the perfect choice for serving appetizers or a small entrée. Atlanta-based South of Market is one of Taigan’s specialty stores famous for French and Belgian antiques and gorgeous European finds.

3. The Versatile Clam Shell @ Taigan’s Bungalow Classic
Bungalow Classic’s resin Clam Shell Bowl is best teamed with colorful beverages or filled with fresh seafood for effortless summer entertaining. Bungalow Classic is a Taigan.com retailer known for sophisticated, sensible and timeless finds.

4. Tablescapes via Hollyhock
This 3-pint glass jug is great for serving up some old-fashioned lemonade, fruit juice, water or simply filled with bright-yellow lemons to add an accent to the bar or serve as a centerpiece on the table. Hollyhock, Los Angeles by Suzanne Rheinstein is on Taigan.com and has a reputation for classic lines and custom textiles.

5. Picnic –ready! Throws and Pillows via Revival on Taigan.com
Bright-hued quilted throws available in honey, orange, deep red, olive, green, teal and more teamed with Cotton Utility Pillows by Revival set the mood for a laidback summer picnic in the backyard, a pool party or the lounge. Chattanooga-based Revival on Taigan is a purveyor of uncommon goods noted for crashing the ancient with modern.

6. Blown Away! Glass Urchin Bowl: Niba Home, Miami
The Blown Glass Urchin Serving Bowl (available in yellow and white) can be used as a standalone centerpiece or for serving. Nothing says summer like bright colors and that seems to be the vibe at Niba Home in sunny Miami and on Taigan.

7. Bud Vases, Home-decorator’s Haven on Taigan.com

This Indigo Bud Vase adds splashes of cool and calm teamed with faux or fresh flora. Designed by Judy Jackson, this vase is a part of the Judy Jackson Stoneware collection for Haven. Dallas-based Haven specializes in urban furnishing and decorating trends.

For more on Taigan connect on Taigan’s Facebook Fan Page or Follow us on Twitter @TaiganFinds.

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