We specialize in custom pieces, please visit our FaceBook & Instagram pages for our entire body of work. There are NO minimums required on apparel, we will make 1 piece or 10,000. If there is something of ours you have seen and want, we will direct you to the appropriate place to purchase it if it is an item we do not sell directly.
BlingIsTheNewBlack.com by Caitlin McConnell

Caitlin was born in Dallas Texas and attended St. Alcuin Montessori & Hilcrest Academy prior to moving north to a spacious ranch in Van Alstyne, Texas. She was an excellent student at Anna High School. Varsity Cheerleader, Yearbook Staff, Theatre and Art pariticpant, placing 3rd in the Texas Student Art Show with a painting of she & Steven Tyler, which he later signed and is proudly hung in her studio. AP Classes, perfect attendance & teacher recommendations led to her attending the 2004 Republican Convention as a student delegate, the 2005 Inauguration of President George Bush and a summer semester in Art & Art History at Cambridge outside London after high school graduation .
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She was accepted to University of Texas at Dallas having graduated 8th in her high school class with 20 hours of college credits already completed during high school, then transferred to University of North Texas as a Fashion Design Major. She lined up internships at Michael Kors & Marchesa in New York, however due to scheduling conflicts only completed Marchesa, where she handled Public Relations and Golden Globes for them.
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Having met Aerosmith in 2001, her dream job was to tour with them some day and create stage wear for them, a dream that was realized when she worked as Joe & Billie Perry's personal assistant for the Global Warming Tour Summer 2012. Steven Tyler began wearing her custom tees on the 2010 Tour, and she created Joe Perry's Blinged Guitar and stage wear for Joey Kramer.
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She started her company in May 2009 while still in college after her mother needed 10 custom tees made for a national product launch and could not find a source to make just 10. She posted photos on FaceBook and the rest is history, all of her mother's marketing clients wanted their logos done and by the time she graduated from UNT May 2010 with a BA in Design she already had numerous business, charity & celebrity clients.
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About Caitlin McConnell
