As a professional designer in Second Life I often research new ways to advertise my work. I love getting messages like the one I got recently about a couple who were married in my creations. They sent me photos of their first dance, I was honored.
So I was browsing the XStreetSL.com forums when I came across a listing of fashion groups in-world that accept designers. The first was Fashion Consolidated owned by Honey Fairweather, a group with over 10,000 members.
I took the plunge and was accepted into the fold. Fashion Con has a great group with wonderful and dedicated admins. Their chat allowed group is lively and friendly as well. I made a great decision to join them.
The next one I applied to was Fashion Trend owned by Madonna Saenz and Lunna Merlin, they have around 1200 members. I applied with Madonna and waited several days to hear back. I finally received a note-card titled simply “REJECT” which confused me. I nearly deleted it thinking it was spam but I decided to open it to read anyway, and saw who it was from. This is the note I received;
“Cathereine Night ,
We are so sorry to tell you that at this point your designs does’t meet the Fashion Trend Requirements. That doesnt mean that if you keep growing and improving your skills we will not accept you in the future.
We can see great ideas and a lot of potential to be developed. Again hun so sorry but now we need to see more out of the talent obviously you have.. Don´t get discouraged please; all this is part of a process in SL to grow and become better each time. Hope to see soon great designs from you and make us ask you to join us. Thanks for your interest.
Madonna Sanez (Madonna Saenz actually this was spelled wrong)
Lunna Merlin
FASHION TREND FOUNDERS”
Since I have over 600 items and a Sim paid for by them I was curious why I was rejected. I attempted twice to contact both ladies while they were on-line but neither replied. So Fashion Trend is a dropped idea.
I will continue to apply with other groups and keep you all posted, thanks for reading!
UPDATE Jan 27, 2009: Fashion Trend’s Madonna finally got back with me this morning. She stated they do not really remember why they rejected me… Maybe it was my advertisements, or maybe they did not like my store layout, she could not remember. She offered to come back to my store and tell me why I am a reject, I declined.
Cathereine Night & AlleyCat Studios 