Lauren Santo Domingo, a Vogue contributing editor and co-founder of fashion online retailer Moda Operandi, has sworn off the mod era and its boxy shapes.
Shoptiques - The New York-based company aggregates small fashion boutiques online and makes their unique products available to shoppers.
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She also has a love of fashion and an entrepreneurial spirit, which she brings together in an online fashion industry resource called My Fashion Database ( MyFDB).
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EBay has reached to an online shopping club for a way to improve its fashion credibility in the European market in a deal to buy brands4friends, the largest online club for fashion in Germany.
In May the online fashion retailer called in the receiver after spending a hundred million pounds.
The retail sector also witnessed losses after high street and online fashion retailer Next's trading update disappointed.
Now a new online fashion startup, Ellie, is looking to provide high-quality athletic gear at cheaper prices.
They also accept deliveries from luxury online fashion website Net-a-Porter and can handle any returns or exchanges on your behalf.
Timmy Mowafi, owner of Greater Than Fashion, an online clothing retailer, is digging in to defend the scantily clad.
EBay says that online clubs command 20% of online fashion sales in Europe.
Online fashion retailer Asos has bucked the gloomy retail trend with a "robust" set of sales figures for the first half.
The startup aims to make it fast, easy, and safe for women to participate in online fashion resale for the first time.
The success of retailers such as the dedicated online fashion site Asos hints at how rapid the migration of sales from traditional stores to the internet is, especially among the 18-34 age group.
The only significant Chinese company to do a U.S. IPO this year was online fashion retailer Vipshop, which listed its shares in March, only to see them plummet by more than 30 percent in the first few weeks of trading.
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Because the online fashion show featured supermodels and the company paid for an expensive ad placement during the Super Bowl game, Victoria's Secret "had to expect a significant amount of traffic, " said Melissa Bain, an analyst at The Yankee Group in Boston.
Liza Deyrmenjian, the founder of ShopToko.com, an online fashion and accessories wholesaler for independent retailers, says prospective angel investors in her company have asked for a breakdown of all the recent transactions on the site, as well as specifics on her target market and other data.
What if they also already knew your fashion taste from your online purchase history?
Worried about the ugly boot in a fashion capital, she searched online for something to dress up the boot but found nothing.
Merchants of various product types (i.e. electronics, fashion, health, pets) build online stores on the Rakuten platform and sell directly to customers.
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Comprised of at least 125 sessions, covering topics from sports to online video to music to fashion to celebrity, the event accentuated an already-burgeoning tech community.
Online sales at House of Fraser jumped 48% from a year earlier and this big rise in online trade was echoed at fashion retailer New Look, which said sales over the internet rose by more than 50%.
U.S. e-commerce giant eBay last November launched a partnership with xiu.com, an online store, to promote new fashion items sold on eBay by 3, 800 top vendors.
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This can also be done in an automatic fashion by collaboration of social networking sites and online stores, but that would upset privacy advocates and everyone else involved.
Online shopping offers a platform for new fashion brands to enter China, without the expense and risk of opening physical stores.
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Another Chinese company with a foot in Vietnam is Vancl, an online retailer that sells no-frills fashion in the style of Uniqlo and Gap.
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In the first half of 2009, not generally considered a bright spot for American retail, buyers of fashion footwear spent almost twenty per cent more through online-only channels than they had the previous year, according to the NPD Group, a market-research firm, while sales at shoe chains, department stores, and stand-alone shops were down about eleven per cent each.
The group already sells a home range online, but its revamped website will offer fashion lines which have only been available in its stores until now.
Winchester says that unlike most online firms, which tried and failed to fashion a new business model to suit the Web, UPS used the Internet to suit its existing business model.
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