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After several months of work, today we are launching the Jargol Designer Index. This is a guide to some of the most progressive, talented names and labels in fashion today. Just go to http://www.jargol.com/designers and you'll see an alphabetical list of designers. Click on any designer to get a concise bio, links to other great resources and of course a curated selection of YouTube videos featuring the designer's work. There are about 80 designers in the index, but we intend to double or triple it in the months to come. We're hoping to make the Jargol Designer Index a fundamental fashion resource and would love any suggestions or comments you might have.

As part of a mini redesign we did a few months ago, we started a little project that we haven't talked about until now. We started compiling more extensive information/media about some of the brands we feature on this site. Brands like Rick Owens, Raf Simons and Veronique Branquinho now have pages with a few facts, some links to good interviews/articles and a few representative videos of their work. The idea is not to overwhelm with information, but to provide a few choice morsels that will let readers know what a particular designer is all about.

We have 30 or so of these designer profiles written with more to come soon, and we'll featuring many of them on this blog as they're added.

We just spent a bit of time in London and had a chance to visit a few rather wonderful boutiques. We'll be slowly posting these shops to the blog and our guide in the next week or two.

We're going to be taking this week to work on some site improvements, so no posts from us unless something really juicy comes along. See you next week!

We'll be visiting the Bay Area from mid-week through this weekend. If there are any new shops we should see, people we should meet or events we should know about, please let us know.

We're taking a week off the blog to attend to some shopping guide updates so we'll see you all back here on February 25th. P.S. If you have any great suggestions for the shopping guide, this week would be a great time to make them.

Around this time in years past we've usually taken an extended break. This year though instead of not posting at all, we'll only be posting quick bits and sale/event notices for the next 3 weeks. We'll return to our full version on Monday, January 14th, with dozens of shops to add to our guide, tons to report on the shops already in our guide, and maybe a new trick or two up our sleeve. Happy holidays!

Taking this week off. Happy Thanksgiving and see you next week!

Sorry for the unusually long hiatus, we'll be back and rolling right along in a week or so.

We're taking a few days off and will see you back here next week.

Update 9/25: Well OK, maybe just a few more posts this week.

We're taking a few days off for July 4th. See you Thursday.

FYI: expect little to no posting this week as we complete our move to New York.

You may notice one or a dozen changes we've just made to this here website. We'll let you find most the changes yourself but we'd like to highlight a few points.

• This update was designed mainly to make it easy as can be to make comments, manage favorites, suggest stores and otherwise participate in Jargol. Whereas before commenting required registration now it can be done anonymously. Whereas before adding and editing favorite stores and brands was rather cumbersome now it can be done with one click.
• You might notice the articles section has disappeared. But the latest interviews we did have not! Just go to the interviews area of the blog and there they are in their entirety.

Enjoy and please let us know if you find any problems or have any suggestions.

We often want to highlight a singular something without talking much about the designer that designed it or the store that's selling it. We've mostly ignored these one offs but from now on we'll posting/tagging them as "quick bits." A picture, a link to the designer and store, a quick description if absolutely necessary, and that'll be it.