June 2nd is our first collaboration with the Brooklyn Arts Center!

Benefiting local charity, DREAMS, we are hoping to have a phenomenal day of local art, style, music, food, all working together to make a difference in our community!

We are looking for designers/creators/artists/musicians from all over to be a part of the event!  Please email Heather@brooklynartsnc.com  or Michael@edgeofurge.com for more information!

COME TO THE FRESH AND PRECIOUS FASHION SHOW!

A few of our EOU models will be hitting the runway, and tons of our friends are contributing pieces to the show!  Good luck everyone!

Here’s a little info from Michael of Fresh and Precious:

Courtney and I wanted to celebrate the success of our blog by teaming up and making a night to showcase local and regional designers. We wanted to play up the beachy, hip aesthetic of Wilmington and bring in that “Wilmy feel.” we’ve got a great mix of insane colors, knitted bathing suits, ww2 vintage military jackets, pieces from the 30s to the 90s, insane custom jewelry, amazing vintage bathing suits….I mean we’ve got so much great stuff. The finale of the show is this insane set of Americano pieces that are sickkkkkk. So sick.

Also, I’m incorporating a political aspect to the show and walking the female models wearing Race to the Ballot slash vote against shirts down the runway. We’ve got a reporter coming down from DC to do a wrtie-up prior to the primary. The head of Equality Nc will be there and Jen Jones with Race to the Ballot will share a little about the amendment and all that jazz.

Starting today, during the first 7 days of each month, we are going to donate 10% of our sales to a charity or organization that we think needs to be spotlighted and supported!

Introducing, We-O-U (we owe you)!

We love the communities in which we live and want to support where it’s needed, so as we continue to grow, we also want to grow the world around us!

New Hanover County Schools will be the first spotlighted effort!  We will be donating to less fortunate kids who need food over the summer when school’s out, but also giving some to the teachers and classrooms to help stock up on the needed supplies!

If you’d like to donate locally, please bring by any non-perishable food items, school supplies, tissue and paper towels, and whatever else you’d like to give!

Shop a little…help a lot!  Together, we can make a big difference!

XOXO!

Vans asked some of their favorite people to customize a pair of classic white slip-ons! It was a project designed to spread awareness about the Vans Custom Culture art program – which you can get more info about at here.

Aaron Axelrod

Erica from Honestly WTF

Erica Simone

Kenan Bell

Kimberly Gordon and Emily Faulstich – Wildfox Couture Designers

Lauren Kolodny from Honestly WTF

Lucy Hale

Monica Locascio of Paper Magazine

Peter Som, Designer

Louie Gong

Voting kicks off today at 3:00 and runs until August 10 at 2:59am!  We would like to generate as many votes for them as possible, as early as possible, and then keep the momentum going all day/night long!

Here’s how you vote:

We will be serving up pizza and DELICIOUS HOMEMADE TREATS- including VEGAN TREATS! and the bar staff will keep the drinks coming!  We will have a computer set up so you can vote, and maybe get a prize for participating.

And on stage will be Fred Champion and later, Knives & Daggers!

Please come out and show your support!

For a little more information on Triangle, here’s the Press Release:

Nine years ago, Edge of Urge opened its doors to the world, welcoming all of us into the creative mind of, owner, Jessie Williams.  One of the first and longest lasting boutiques in downtown Wilmington, today, Edge of Urge remains in the forefront of the minds of tourists, locals, and online fashion fans.  With recent national coverage (Seventeen Magazine, InStyle, Glamour, New York Post), the handmade feather earrings by Jessie Williams have been in high demand and quickly replicated by other vendors.  However, like any successful business and business owner, Williams’ and team- Jess Young and Jess Yeager- are staying ahead of the trends with their new brand, Triangle.

Together, the three Jess’s are creating amazing new jewelry and accessories.  Jess Young designs a line called Remnant by Mimic, creating beautiful crocheted and braided pieces of jewelry, taking inspiration from nature, featuring the use of metals, feathers, beads and dream catcher style weaving.  Continuing with the creative Jess’s is Jess Yeager. With I LIKE IT HERE CLUB, taking its name from a “club” her grandfather created while held as a POW in the WW2, Yeager melts and repurposes metal into amazing ear cuffs, earrings, rings, necklaces and bracelets.  Combined with Williams’, who is known for the beautiful feather creations, these 3 women are the foundation for Triangle.  From the scraps from Williams’ (Edge of Urge) designs, Young (Remnant) uses the strings for her pieces; while Yeager (ILIHC) takes any salvageable metals and melts them down to create her jewelry.  Through Edge of Urge, you will also see evidence of this “full triangle”- since it’s not technically a circle- as scraps are tied onto your bags, recycled as packaging material for products shipped from the store, as well as simply used for employee key rings.  Nothing is wasted – fabric, paper, or creative ability.

Triangle will be more than just a collaboration of the three different lines (EOU, Remnant and ILIHC) but also a means of channeling their abilities and resources to preserve the manufacturing industry in the United States.  The ultimate goal for Triangle is establish a network of manufacturers, artists, and designers with the purpose of creating a “compound” type safe haven for US-based independent designers and artists providing a platform from which their ideas can take life.  Each side of this Triangle has experienced difficulties and shortfalls along the way while trying to make their place among the design world, therefore, they decided to team together as a powerful, and more impactful entity and have the desire to be the foundation for the art community providing resources from manufacturing and textiles to finance and business management, which tends to not be an artist’s strongest suit.  Not only will the textile industry of North Carolina be appreciated and rewarded but also the people, the actual hands that run the machines and touch the fabric, will continue to have a place to work.

With the support of their community, loyal customers, friends and family, Triangle will become a modern day, business incubator on steroids.  Our trio is currently competing in a national competition sponsored by Yoxi called “Trim the Waste in Fashion”- which will award a design team with up to $40,000 to continue their efforts to work more efficiently with more efficient means to create new fashion ideas, concepts, and products. Round 1 Voting starts on August 8, 2011.  There will be 2 subsequent rounds for the winning teams, until one team is left standing.  The hope of Triangle and Edge of Urge is to do so, all while remaining as North Carolina focused as possible, taking advantage of the vast, local agricultural and textile industry.  This idea is not new, and the basis is not original- however, this time, with the passion and drive of the Triangle, together with North Carolina and the strong, local artist community, this simple idea could change many lives along the way.

If the past is any indication of the future, Triangle and Edge of Urge are on the edge of something monumental!

Hope to see you there!  Oh Yea!!!

XOXO,

Me.