Crazy couple of weeks, and more great news coming

Hello friends!

Well, it has been a somewhat crazy few weeks following the NYFW Cabiria show, and all the press that came around it. I think I had underestimated what a big splash we were making with our little company, relatively brand new and all. But people really understood that Cabiria was making history, and with a groundswell of positive public sentiment as well. It was awe inspiring to watch that recognition happen around the globe, and I'm incredibly proud to have been the emissary.

All that attention meant that I needed to move everything into a factory that would take good care of us, fast! We have as of this week gotten into the perfect sized place for us - not so small as to lose the professional touches, and not so big as to get lost, and best of all, in my beloved Garment Center in New York City!

I will be releasing items in waves this time around, as I didn't make it in time to fulfill regular seasonal delivery, but we've gotten order from around the world, and pre-orders for more. New fabrics, and many of those pieces from the NYFW show, so familiar shapes. Separates, and sumptuous fabrics too, and some surprises up my sleeve for spring!

The next step as a small business is going to be growth. Now I have shown that there's interest and a real market out there, I need to do a more formal round of capital raising to get to the next step. Many challenges are on the horizon, but I know we can do it!

In the meantime, here's some teaser fabrics for the new collection - all silk and high quality wools, of course...

As far as press goes, we hit the jackpot. We were on the front page of the Sunday Style sections of MAJOR papers around the world right after the show, featuring my beautiful plus size models. I'm talking The London Times (UK), Suededeutsche (Germany), Al Jazeera America, and L'Express (Paris). And Yahoo's front page, CNN, Nightline, OMG Insider, and ABC News. And major papers in China and Kenya and Oman and New Zealand and Indonesia.

Then there was a lovely mention by Jimmy Fallon on his late night show (he totally got it), as well as an NPR segment and Howard Stern. Definitely hitting the zeitgeist there. And finally, a standing invitation to go on the new Queen Latifah talk show. I love her!

Because I can't even handle how much press came in, here's a comprehensive list, unless of course I missed a few. Entirely probable, actually. Please forgive me! And enjoy catching up if you like.

All my best, Eden

Beutiful Magazine

AFP footage from the show

The Curvy Fashionista

Nightline

NPR with Audie Cornish and Robin Givhan of The Cut from New York Magazine (comment at 2:47-3:00)

Hello Giggles: Queen of The Day

The Gloss

Fashionista post show article</>

ABC News

Dare Magazine (Canada) page 10)

Zaftig Times

Al Jazeera America

Suedeutsche Stil (Germany)

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (monologue 4:47-5:05)

CNN Erin Burnett OutFront

OMG Insider with Emme

Times of Oman

Explosiv (Germany)

Jezebel

Wondervol (Netherlands)

Curvily

Straits Times (Singapore)

Oman Observer

Capital Kenya (Kenya)

Masque Mag

Sioux City Journal

Grown and Curvy Woman</>

Ozarks First

Houston Chronicle

Style Hs No Size (Netherlands)

Amica (Germany)

Girl Talk HQ

Beautiful Curvy (Italy)

Policymic (China)

Terra TV (Brazil)

Fashionista

DNA Info New York

Break Thru Radio

Paozim de Queijo (Brazil)

Fashion News Live

NY Daily News

Yo Dona (Spain)

ENCA (South Africa)

Grazia (France)

Juromano (Brazil)

Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)

Huffington Post

Yahoo Shine

Fat Chic

Agence France-Presse

Today

Moda and Estilo

Culturebox (France)

Pudelek (Poland)

Yahoo Shine (Canada)

Vogue Italia

L'Express (France)

Yahoo News

UK MSN Style

Little Lime Dress

Beleza GG (Brazil)

Fashion Holo Fote (Brazil)

Curve a Porter (Brazil)

Life and Style (New Zealand)

Gulf News (Dubai)

The Times (UK)

Washington Post

Business Insider

She Knows

New York Business Journal

Metro Nieuws Amsterdam

The Atlantic

Daily Life (Australia)

Style Has No Size (Netherlands)

Curvy Is the New Black

Yummy Mummy Club (Canada)

Squishy Gals

Bernadett Vajda

Fashionista

Daily Mail UK

Refinery29

StyleList

De Morgen (Netherlands & Belgium)

Glam

Analogue Chic

Abbey Post

HLN (Belgium)

Fashiontographer

Hello Beautiful

Fashion Times

Fashion n' Style

Daily Venus Diva

Grazia (UK)

Total Beauty

More of Me To Love

Caras (Brazil)

Global Noiz

Plus Model Mag

Internet Nachrichtenagentur (Germany)

Misstop (UK)

Famosas & Fotos (Brazil)

Debora Fernandes Plus (Brazil)

Okezone (Indonesia)

Newsstand 24/7

Cosmopolitan . net

Fashion Lately

Fashion Courier

Beauty Advices

My Fashion Life

Post Show Scramble and More Press

Hi friends, I apologize that again, the blog posts are so disjointed, but there's SO MUCH to process! Thanks to everyone who took part in the shows in any and every way, especially my assistants, models, and the Fashion Law Institute folks themselves. Astounding! My gratitude forever for what you brought to the table.

Here are a few photos from the show itself:

And then there's the press, including front pages of Style sections internationally in some VERY major publications, and my face on the front landing page of Yahoo on Friday.

Terra TV (Brazil)

Fashionista

DNA Info New York

Break Thru Radio

Paozim de Queijo (Brazil)

Fashion News Live

NY Daily News

Yo Dona (Spain)

ENCA (South Africa)

Grazia (France)

Juromano (Brazil)

Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)

Huffington Post

Yahoo Shine

Fat Chic

Agence France-Presse

Today

Moda and Estilo

Culturebox (France)

Pudelek (Poland)

Yahoo Shine (Canada)

All the best, Eden

So! Much! Press!

Hi friends,

This is going to be a SUPER fast post because it's the day before the NYFW show, and I'm swamped! I just wanted to post about all the press we've been getting even in the past few days, and more to come. Here's the list just since the LAST list I sent.

First of all, Vogue Italia! The spiritual core of Cabiria's inspiration, and here we are. Fantastic!

Vogue Italia

L'Express (France)

Yahoo News

UK MSN Style

Little Lime Dress

Beleza GG (Brazil)

Fashion Holo Fote (Brazil)

Curve a Porter (Brazil)

Life and Style (New Zealand)

Washington Post

Metro Nieuws Amsterdam

The Atlantic

Daily Life (Australia)

Style Has No Size (Netherlands)

Soon to be released:

Al Jazeera America

CNN Primetime: Erin Burnett OutFront

ABC News Nightline

Agence France Presse

NHK El Mundo (Japan)

Tomorrow Focus (Germany)

Bild (Germany)

A la Vie A la Mode (France)

DNA Info New York

And probably a picture or two tomorrow from that show I'm in. It's little. Maybe won't hit the wires...

Thank you everyone for working so hard to get this out there in the world and helping me make my dream come true!

All the best, Eden

Overwhelming response and a few teasers

Hello friends,

Thank everyone for sitting up and paying attention about the Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week event! A little information on that:

- Some people who were invited have told me in private IM's and emails that they did not receive an email. Please check your email filters for anything from The Fashion Law Institute or Fashion GPS around August 22nd. That's the group that's presenting Cabiria. RSVP right away, please!

- This is a group show and we had a very limited number of invites allowed to us. Please, please, from the bottom of my heart, do not take offense if you aren't able to attend. I had to make some difficult choices that would create the most amount of resonance in the industry with the small allotment I had.

- The show will be at Lincoln Center's The Box off 62nd Street. An interesting cultural side note is that there is an assumption that we all know where The Box is, as the invite company did not include the address. Since we plus size girls have never been invited to the party, many of us didn't know where The Box was.

To whet your appetites, here are 4 teasers of what's going down the runway.

Now that that's covered, let's get on to the holy moly press response across the globe! The avalanche started like this:

I had been interviewed several weeks ago by Tyler McCall at Fashionista.com's article on plus women's shopping dilemmas. Right as that happened, I was asked to participate in NYFW in the main venue, and it was quickly discovered that that had never happened before for a plus size line. Fashionista then added me to another article with Tim Gunn discussing the "repugnant choices" plus women have in major department stores currently [his words]. Then, a few days ago, Fashionista published their big scoop, that Cabiria would be the first plus designer featured at NYFW.

My social media feeds blew up. I do know a lot of people in the fashion world, but didn't realize how big this was going to get... until the next day, when The Daily Mail in the UK picked up the story on their news feed.

Then Refinery 29's article hit;

another hugely influential fashion site posted about me and from there, the world. Literally. So far, I've been contacted by press from all over the US, the UK, Australia,Brazil, Belgium, The Netherlands, Indonesia, and Qatar. Please forgive my not posting images from each one, but there is a clickable link to each article with each listing.

Enjoy the reading list, which is in no order other than where I typed it, and I'll update you all again soon!

All the best, Eden

Fashionista

Daily Mail UK

Refinery29

StyleList

De Morgen (Netherlands & Belgium)

Glam

Analogue Chic

Abbey Post

HLN (Belgium)

Fashiontographer

Hello Beautiful

Fashion Times

Fashion n' Style

Daily Venus Diva

Grazia (UK)

Total Beauty

More of Me To Love

Caras (Brazil)

Global Noiz

Plus Model Mag

Internet Nachrichtenagentur (Germany)

Misstop (UK)

Famosas & Fotos (Brazil)

Debora Fernandes Plus (Brazil)

Okezone (Indonesia)

Newsstand 24/7

Cosmopolitan . net

Fashion Lately

Fashion Courier

Beauty Advices

My Fashion Life