Mignonette Featured in IndieEntrepreneur


Mignonette, which is French for "cute girl," is a fitting name for a company dedicated to making clothing designed to make women feel girly, cute, and modern. [more...]


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DIY Thing Interviews Angela Johnson

Angela Johnson has quickly become a cult favorite among Unsung customers. You know and love her vintage inspired looks (that's her multi-tier Victorian skirt on the left) and her thrift store fairytale style (from t-shirt ball gowns to garter skirts with tulle). But did you know Angela's black Bubble Dress will be on the next season of America's Next Top Model? Read this insightful interview where she shares, among other things, what it takes to be a successful indie fashion designer:

Part I

Part II

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Grand Dames of Emerging Fashion, May You Rest in Peace

By now you must have heard about the recent closing of independent online boutiques Girlshop and Mighty Flirt. Unsung wishes to commend both for being trailblazers in the industry. For bringing emerging designers to the fashionably wretched and bored. For putting independent designers online long before departments stores jumped on the bandwagon.

Grand dames of emerging fashion, may you rest in peace.

In a creative industry like fashion, however, regeneration is key. Incredible new designers are born every day and this cycle, which has been rapidly expanding for a decade, will continue to flourish. It's like the baby boom of independent fashion.

We love this new era. We love that the young and fresh are able to mix with the classic elite. We love that the little guy/gal's chance at success is on the upswing. We love that fashion has become more attainable: that boutique labels are now in large department stores and the current high-low fad at H&M, Target and Gap.

As much as we love the current climate of fashion, to us, true novelty is still hard to find. We still want access to designers before they get into Barneys or Bloomingdales. We want the newest styles before they become the "it" thing; before corporate suits mark up the pricetags and make them inaccessible to so many of the true style-makers.

Unsung is such a shop. We are relentless in searching for the newest, freshest, most creative, innovative, stylish young designers and getting them to you before they become the next big thing. Shop at Unsung and you won't see yourself coming.

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Washington's Own Style: Unsung Designers






Our interview (and an impromptu fashion shoot) in DCist.

Washington's Own Style: Unsung Designers
By fashion contributor Rachel Cothran. See more of her writing and street photography at her web site Project Beltway.

Tucked in an alleyway off 18th Street in Adams Morgan, an off-beat shop hides behind ugly metal double doors, but the clothes you'll find inside are often diamonds in the rough of D.C. fashion. At Unsung Designers, polos and pearls are tossed aside for one-of-a-kind dresses in original prints and killer heels you won't ever see at Nine West. [more...]

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Indie Fashion Week: New York Couture

There were so many mouthwateringly beautiful things to command our A-D-D attention at New York fashion week, but nothing got our adrenaline pumping more than the off-tent indie fashion shows we attended at various venues around the city. One of the most fun and fabulous was New York Couture at the Grand in midtown. Loads of color and tulle are NY Couture staples. Add a heaping spoon of drag queens and a sprinkle of pompoms and ripped fishnets, and you've got yourself a show worthy of Betsey Johnson or Patricia Fields.

I really loved this dress.



















Short skirts and animal prints.



















Frilly underpants as outerwear. The jacket has trompe l'oeil lace. Fabulous.



















Attitude.















Piece de Resistance.



















Backstage bows. Designer Cassie Kogler is 2nd from left.

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New York Couture Show: Goodies, Hotties, Drinkies Galore!

Join in the celebration February 8, 2007 @ New York’s hottest nightspot The Grand located @ 41 E. 58th Street for New York Couture's Official Fashion Week Show and Party.

New York Couture splashes onto the scene in an array of vivid one of a kind signature pieces. Short frilly skirts, lace dresses and crop tops melt like a deluxe crayon box left in the sun.

Doors will open at 8pm with gift bags to the 1st 100 guests sponsored by: BUST Magazine, Venus Magazine, The Fashion Journal, MAC Cosmetics, Izze Sparkling Beverages, Working Girl Wines, Sea Breeze, Skin Milk, UTZ Snacks, and Crunch Gyms. Enjoy an open bar from 9-10 while DJ Boris spins the hottest tunes as anticipation for the Spring 2007 line begins. To top off the night there will be a special live performance at Midnight by Debbie (from Avenue D) and the Loconuts
For more information and to RSVP go to www.newyorkcouture.net.


Admission is FREE with flyer invite or RSVP on guest list. Email nycoutureguestlist@yahoo.com to be added to the guest list. OR, you can pick up flyers for the show at the following locations:

  • Apollo Braun- 193 Orchard Street NYC
  • Femme Fatale- 578 Driggs Ave Brooklyn, NY
  • Patricia Field- 302 Bowery NYC
  • Tahir- 75 Orchard Street NYC
  • or print the flyer and bring it the day of the show

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Unsung Presents Indie Fashion at Crafty Bastards

Check out the video from our fashion show at Crafty Bastards 2006. The show featured Unsung designers and other designers who participated at Crafty Bastards. Several designers reworked Crafty Bastards t-shirts, which were modeled in the show then auctioned off to raise money for a local charity.

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