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

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

New York Fashion Week and New Stores and So Much More!

Hello friends,

It has been a VERY busy several weeks here at Cabiria!

Not to bury the lead, I'll let you know about the hugest of the big news: Cabiria has been invited to take part in New York Fashion Week in the tent shows. It will be September 6th, the first show of the second day, right before the Project Runway show. Cabiria is the first plus designer to EVER be invited to show at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Shows. Ever. This is such a huge milestone for legitimizing plus fashion, and incredibly exciting for me personally.* In the meantime, I've got a lot of work to do!

Cabiria garnered a lot of press in the past few weeks, much due to Aimee Cheshire of Madison Plus Select and her team. We were featured in an article by Tyler McCall about the state of the Plus Size industry on the very prominent and generally straight size fashion blog Fashionista.com. The interview was arranged through Aimee, and I was featured as an example of one of her favorite designers doing right by the customers. I really do love these opportunities to reach beyond the usual audience, and Fashionista.com is a big platform!

Aimee was also the one responsible for getting Sofia in Giant Peony onto page 75 of the September issue of Redbook Magazine (the one with Kristen Bell on the cover). She even modeled the dress beautifully! We're part of their by-line on The New Plus-Size Rules for dressing fashionably.

We are also thrilled to work with another online retailer, Abby Post, who writes a blog with fashion tips as well. They included us in their tips for how to dress beautifully for business meetings, and featured our Francesca in Orange Dot dress. It's wonderful to have the owner Cynthia really promoting for Cabiria - she was one of our first customers as well! 

We also got into two more stores!!! - ReDress, newly owned by Rachel Kacenjar of Cupcake & Cuddlebunny and Sweetooth fame, is currently online and imminently opening their storefront in Cleveland, OH. The other is Astoria, NY based Lockwood, the store rebooted from the former Site NYC business. Lockwood just opened this weekend, and is owned by the gorgeously plus size Mackenzi. I really hope she models some of the items she's carrying! Stop by and convince her, please.

Finally, I leave you with two customer photos. Jessica wrote to me a while ago about selling her a sample that had been made for the photo shoot, but didn't go into production. She was really lovely about it, and wore it to several weddings, so I feel the good mojo has been earned. Plus, she looks stunning in it - so happy!

The other is a fantastic woman I met by chance a while ago, who happens to be a journalist and a body acceptance crusader. She came to interview me for an upcoming article for her magazine Beutiful [sic], and fell in love with the Flaminia in Tropicalia dress. Doesn't she look stunning in it?

I think this was the longest post I've ever had, but with really good reason. Talk soon and enjoy yourselves!

All the best, Eden 

* I will update you all as we have more information and photos. I have invited press and retailers and buyers only, as my invite list was small, but if I could, I'd let everyone in. It's not under my control.