Founded in 2006 Spanish Moss is an online boutique specializing in statement vintage pieces for tastemakers, artists, and IT girls (or just those in spirit). Spanish Moss also features a carefully curated collection of the most quality and progressive independent designers in the Shop New section of the site. In addition, Spanish Moss designs and produces a signature clothing line - American Gold - that is manufactured in California. Finally, Spanish Moss hosts the SMV Mag, a blog collective written by carefully selected fashionistas and SMV girls to keep you updated on the latest street style and runway trends, art, literature, music, and progressive culture.

American Gold is a collection of vintage inspired clothing produced in the Golden State of California. Always made of the finest silks, crochets, and cottons, each material in the American Gold collection is handpicked to construct a supremely soft garment of the highest quality and attention to detail. Emboldened by an American girl's love for nostalgia, American Gold is inspired by: Indian summers, sleeping under the stars in Joshua Tree, collections of taxidermy and south western trinkets, roadside flea markets, listening to the Rolling Stone's "Moonlight Mile" on repeat, whiskey soaked nights in Nashville, musing over Marianne Faithful & Anita Pallenberg, sleeping past checkout in old motel rooms, first kisses, discovering Emmylou Harris for the first time, summer flings, wearing sequins in the daytime, humid summers spent lounging on wraparound porches, sleepovers, playing hooky, 4 pm purple thunder storms, re-reading Walt Whitman, living free, and making new best friends wherever you go. Visit: TheAmericanGold.com

Suzanne Ford Carafano is the owner, stylist, and designer behind Spanish Moss and American Gold since SMV's inception in 2006. Although having experience only on the journalism side of the fashion industry, Suzanne began SMV with an addiction to rare vintage clothing and a promise to herself to never work a job she hated again. When she isn't scouring the states for exquisite vintage or sketching designs for American Gold, you can find her writing works of fiction and reading books in bed all day, driving through or moving to a new state every few months, sleeping under the stars in the desert, and dancing to classic rock and old country in her favorite dive bars. Over the past years SMV's staff has grown and makes it's "homebase" in the Golden State.