Sinners & Saynt: New Interns, New Offices, and Steve Aoki

It has been a bit of a hellish week at Fashion Indie.

We’ve been revving up, prepping for our biggest project yet, Fashion Indie Week Brooklyn. It will be a massive undertaking featuring over a dozen designers, boutiques throughout New York, and two major parties that are being created by us. We’ve already begun securing designers and it seems like we may have already found two major presenting sponsors to help us make this event a huge success.

The new offices kick major ass and are right between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridge in Dumbo. There’s this awesome park right outside our doors which provides ample breathing room when the office gets too cramped. Bruce Wrobel (serial social entrepreneur and founder of All for Africa) stopped by on Friday to discuss some goodness about our work with his charity. We’re incharge of piecing together some major online auction packages for the cause that will hopefully fetch upwards of $400,000 (if only we had that kind of capital backing for FashionIndie ;-). We’re setting up some pretty killer packages, including a James Bond Experience (with the help of Jeffery Wright) which includes tickets to the premiere, a Tom Ford suit, killer gadgets, and an exotic car rental. There’s a New York Fashion Package being put together as well and we’re reaching out to host committee member Russell Simmons to help us piece some things together. See that indies, that’s called name dropping. Learn it, live it, love it.

On another note, our new interns are flipping awesome. Corey is hilarious and his articles are pure snarky joy. He hails from Buffalo, NY and is exactly the type of person we love at Fashion Indie.  Our other intern newbie, Hilary comes to us from upper crust Westchester. She’s the epitome of polished grooming and has impecable manners, which totally throws me off.  I mean honestly, how many 15 year olds do you know who want to one day be the Editor-in-Chief of Vanity Fair?!?  Scratch that, how many 15 year olds do you know, know what Vanity Fair is?!?  We have been seriously blessed with two of the best interns ever.

In other news we’re on the verge of securing a major partner, a major client, and a major round of funding. We’ve been growing quickly and our dedicated readers have been returning on the daily.  By the end of July we’re expecting to hit the eyes of over 500,000 readers, a number comparable to any international issue of Vogue. In addition, we’re launching an offline marketing campaign to raise awareness of FashionIndie.com to the general public. Our organic growth has been substantial, but now it’s time to spark a fuse.

If you have read these before you know that I’m hearts about Steve Aoki.  Well on Monday at 3PM I will be speaking to the legendary DJ’s manager about partnering with Fashion Indie Media.  Partner in crime Busie Matsiko secured the call. Expect a slightly crushed Daniel Saynt on Tuesday if things go badly.

Well I think that’s about it indies. I know I haven’t been on the site as much as before, but I hope Rebecca’s editing and our new slew of writers are keeping you entertained. I’ll be periodically writing so watch for the goodness.