website redesign/overhaul - fashion retail

We are looking to overhaul, recreate, redesign and professionalize the website www.ballinsltd.com. This website will not be an ecommerce site (yet). Ballins LTD is a chain of 7 ladies clothing stores located in New Orleans, Louisiana. We sell many different high-end brands of clothing and we want the new website to be visually appealing (stunning even) and profile the different brands we carry, the locations of each of our stores and give a general vibe of luxury and service to our 35 and older customers. The Perfect Candidate: * Strong creative design skills to create a visually stunning website with basic instruction and direction from us. (we are not designers. you must be comfortable taking the lead role in the new design of the site with basic instruction from us as to content) * Technical skills to execute your visually stunning ideas. * Experience in designing consumer-based fashion or luxury product sites * 3+ examples of design work on the web * English speaking * A passion for fashion The finished site must have: 1. a calendar for trunk shows (events where the designer of a line visits our stores and helps show the line to our customers) 2. signup for newsletter that links to constant contact mailing list manager 3. a unique creative way to show the designers and brands we carry that is easy to navigate and understand 4. an interesting way to display all of our store locations and provide directions and a profile of each store 5. a bunch of ideas to make our site special and unique (but easy to navigate as our customers are 35 and older) Some websites that have the look and feel we are looking for: [login to view URL] [login to view URL] [login to view URL] [login to view URL] (then click fashion) Cost of Project: Prefer either : 1. a flat price for the initial overhaul and a per hour cost for monthly updates and a projected quarterly mini-overhaul with a "not more than this" for the monthly and quarterly changes 2. a monthly retainer that includes the initial overhaul, monthly updates and quarterly mini-overhaul Success in this project will lead to similar work on our other websites: * [login to view URL] * [login to view URL] * [login to view URL] * weekly email promotions using constant contact This job will be given to the person who can prove they can provide the design skills we need at a reasonable, fair price.