They also accept deliveries from luxury online fashion website Net-a-Porter and can handle any returns or exchanges on your behalf.
Net-a-Porter, an upmarket fashion website, now offers the option of having designer outfits delivered in a brown paper bag.
Net-a-Porter reduced its losses during the period, but generated a positive operating cashflow.
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Expect e-commerce sites like Amazon or Net-a-Porter to start using it more.
It also has wholesale businesses and owns the luxury retail website, Net-A-Porter.com.
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Shangpin also has an outlet website that marks down some items but wants to stay away from the discount-driven model pioneered by Yoox.com and Net-a-Porter.
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But these days, many of the actual clothes are being snapped up by boutiques in Dubai and Moscow or by online retailers such as Net-a-Porter.
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There is even a correction going on in conspicuous consumption: Net-a-porter, a pricey website, offers to deliver designer outfits to its customers in brown paper bags.
Expect Natalie Massenet, who has already turned a kitchen table business into the global luxury e-tailer Net-a-porter, to pull her new role off with equal aplomb.
Massenet, founder of net-a-porter and the woman who changed the way we shop for luxury, is now busy revving things up as the Chairman of the British Fashion Council.
StyledOn will also continue to partner with selected retailers such as Neiman Marcus, Net-a-Porter.com and ASOS to deliver members a community driven commerce experience that goes beyond both brick-and-mortar and online merchandising.
While this means that customers who missed the Rochas coat during the trunk show might be able to find it on the site months later, during the normal fall shopping season, it also means that Moda needs to buy, store and sell a large inventory of clothing, just like a department store or Net-a-Porter.
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