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We're getting in come bangin' new jeans from this rad new company called Verses Jeans. They were profiled on North Carolina's Public Radio in a story about the state's garment industry.

Click here to give the interview a listen.

"Sarah Yarborough and Victor Lytvinenko started Verses Jeans in their Raleigh apartment last year. They've since moved into a warehouse near downtown and are shipping jeans to several stores across the county, and even one in the Philippines. The denim, zippers and almost everything else that goes into a pair of pants comes from North Carolina. They join Frank Stasio to talk about their business and their lofty goals to revive North Carolina's garment industry."

HBO's new show, Little Britain, is filming in Wilmington... and they were filming right in front of our shop! Here's a photo:

edge of urge now has a youtube channel! we'll be posting videos from fashion shows, photo shoots, and other fun stuff. click here to check it out: http://www.youtube.com/edgeofurgeNC.

here's a snippet from the most recent fashion show benefitting kids making it, inc.

big in-store sale this weekend!

we just shot the photo for the spring fashion issue of encore!



click on it to check out a bigger size in the edge of urge flickr account.

diva shoe in robin's egg blue, check 'em out in our webstore here.

new spring 80%20 shoes just arrived... they'll be up online sooooooon! yay!

update: the shoes are online now... we'll be getting in more colors soon! check 'em out here!

click here to watch the video on the msnbc website

the fox clip is right after the choppin bra clip

Our friend Matt Katz is collecting first kiss stories! From Matt:

"Send in a short poem or essay on your first kiss. This is for my next project, I want to write songs based on love experiences. Its a new little arty 8 song record i want to do called : Ultra-Romantic.
So dig it, gimmie your kisses. The best one gets a gift basket from Edible arrangements on St. Marks PL. or a Sicillian Pie from Brooklyn's Famous Di' Fara's on AVe J and east 15th. SEnd all submission to fridaynites@gmail.com!!!!!"

Matt Katz: check him out! Our awesome NY dancin' machine!
http://www.myspace.com/fridaynites1


Here's an article on him in the January issue of H Magazine:

Edge of Urge has been voted Best Women's Clothing for Encore's Best of 2008! Thank you all so much, we mean it!!!!!

Our friends the Barnraisers (there's a photo below of us up on stage with them) won best local band, check them out on myspace (http://www.myspace.com/barnraisers) or on their website, barnraisersmusic.com.

Here's a few photos from the awards ceremony:

This article from Star News mentions how fabulous folks looked this New Year's Eve with some great finds from Edge of Urge! A couple of similar accessories you can find online are the Bruno the Bookie fedora and silk ties from Escarjoe (we're going to be adding more of this wonderful ties to the online store very soon)!

Watch M.I.A.'s new video Paper Planes, and you'll catch a glimpse of her sexy yellow and black striped converse high tops. At 0:40, you can see them! Click here to check these shoes out in our webstore.

Beer sweaters, currently sold in-store (coming to Edge of Urge online boutique very soon!):



HANDMADE BEER SWEATERS! ONLY $16!!!!



SAY GOODBYE TO WARM BEER AND COLD HANDS!



LESS FILLING!

THANKS SANTA! I LOVE IT!

It may be 80 degrees in Wilmington (thanks global warming), but we're trying to stir up some holiday spirit while we work with some new holiday music on the ipod. Check out Baby Its Cold Outside, featuring our own Jessie Williams (Yeah, she can sew and sing, crazy multi-talented lady!) at http://www.gordonmerrick.com or at http://myspace.com/gordonmerricks where you can download their songs for free to share and enjoy! Happy Holidays!

Last week, after a misplaced luggage incident at the airport, R&B star M'ya had her stylist run to Edge of Urge to replenish her wardrobe while she is in town to shoot a music video/movie. Handmade items were definately a hit with the singer/actress for the shoot. M'ya showed her appreciation for fashion and the arts when she bought a handknit shawl by Lea Williams' Sick and Tired Productions as well as a one-of-a-kind Tillvaro bag, designed and constructed by Wrightsville Beach native, Corie Beer. Lea's scarves, shawls and headbands are a staple at Edge of Urge, each beautifully handknit out of the best fibers. Corie, the brains and creativity behind Tillvaro bags, supplies us with guilt-free, gorgeous clutches, handbags and hobo bags finely crafted from recycled materials with beautifully modernized vintage touches. The airport may have lost her luggage, but she left with some awesome finds.

So if you caught the story on the WECT TV6 evening news or happened to watch MSNBC's oddball report a few weeks ago you know that Edge of Urge recently had a "fox incident". Sure, in retrospect it was a cute little critter, but at the time, I swear to you it snarled at us before rampaging through the store, eventually exiting the premises in a very anticlimatic ending to the tale. Nevertheless we ranked an interview on what must have been a slow news day. My theory is she heard we had some really rad new pieces by Gentle Fawn (har har, fox, fawn, get it?) and just had to come by the store. Personally the brand is my latest addiction, with simple yet sweet separates like the optional jacket, the bisous blouse and the neighbor tee . The attention to little details make the pieces super feminine without a hint of fussiness. When thrown on with my favorite jeans I might even say these clothes make me feel foxy...