Katie Grand Wears Miu Miu on Safari, and Other Things We Learned From...
Lately, all my favorite brands have been hitting the net with e-commerce, from Suno to Mary Kate and Ashley, and today Miu Miu. Miu Miu is definitely late to join the web game (at least among major...
View ArticleBreaking: American Express Teams Up With Vente-Privee (AKA The First Flash...
Maybe you've never heard of Vente-Privee, but if you've ever visited Gilt Groupe, HauteLook, Rue La La, etc., you know what they do. The French company launched a designer flash sales site back in 2001...
View ArticleOnline Sales Site 1 band 1 brand Brings Emerging Fashion and Emerging Music...
Over the past few decades, there have been innumerable instances of fashion and music coming together (or using each other, depending on how you look at it). From designers outfitting musicians for...
View ArticleBalenciaga's New Website is Like the Greatest Tumblr Ever
After years with a good but not great website, Balenciaga has launched a new site that will make obsessives of the storied label water at the mouth. The center piece of Balenciaga.com is a scrolling...
View ArticleElie Tahari on the Relaunch of His Website, Which Celebs He'd Like To Feature...
Elie Tahari has seen success in the fashion biz for over 40 years. So to ensure his success for the next 40, this week he's relaunched his website, elietahari.com. The revamped site features an...
View ArticleFlash Sales Site Ideeli Ranked #1 Fastest-Growing Company of 2011
Inc. magazine just released their annual Inc. 500, a list of the country's 500 fastest-growing private businesses. Proving that members-only flash sales business model are still sound, online retailer...
View ArticleWe Break Down the Spring Trends With MYHABIT
After three months of the most mild winter ever, spring is officially here! We're trading in our heavy coats, chunky sweaters, and thick boots for coquettish hemlines, Easter Egg shades, and nautical...
View ArticleChanel Might Launch Ecommerce...Someday
Bruno Pavlovsky, Chanel's president of global fashion, sat down with the The Business of Fashion's Imran Amed for the latest installment of the site's CEO Talks. Chanel is one of the few brands (along...
View ArticleShopbop To Start Selling Menswear
If your man is in need of some, er, crispy jawns, we've got some trill news for you (did we do that right?): Four Pins is reporting Shopbop is making a foray into menswear. The Four Pins people were...
View ArticleHow Controversial New Online Sales Tax Bill Could Change E-Commerce
One of the best things about shopping online--besides the fact that you can do it in your pajamas--is that you often don't have to pay sales tax. Only that may be about to change, if legislators have...
View ArticleJoe's Jeans Designer Launches Ambitious New Multifaceted Resale Site
Ambre Dahan, the French-born, L.A.-based design director of Joe's Jeans (and wife of Joe's Jeans founder Joe Dahan), knows that the online resale space is competitive. And crowded. After all, 2012 was...
View ArticleWhy Trying to Find Pink Jeans Online Made Me Rethink My Love of E-Commerce
I do 85% of my shopping online. Mostly because I sit at a computer all day and it's a convenient procrastination tool. But also because I know exactly what I'm getting. I can visit a website and find...
View ArticleH&M E-Commerce Might Finally Launch in Just a Few Weeks
It looks like H&M's online store might finally be launching. For reals this time. Yesterday, we got news that despite being promised e-commerce in the first half of the year, H&M would be...
View ArticleH&M Finally Launches E-Commerce in the U.S.
We're not sure why H&M was being so secretive about the exact launch date of U.S. e-commerce, but it turns out it was August 1. Yes, that's today! Around midnight last night, H&M USA tweeted...
View ArticleLyst Founder Talks New Universal Shopping Cart and the Melding of Tech and...
Lyst, The Cools, The Fancy...it can be hard to keep them all straight, we know. Luckily, Lyst has just completed a new feature that pretty well sets it apart from all the other social commerce sites...
View ArticleNasty Gal's Sophia Amoruso on 'Staying Cool While You Get Big'
No question about it, Nasty Gal, the online retailer that caters to a specific set of 20-something girls (think: Rihanna-loving, crop top and Lita-wearing party girls), has blown up over the past year....
View ArticleEva Chen Discusses the Possibility of E-Commerce at Lucky
Could Eva Chen be the first editor to successfully bring e-commerce to a fashion mag? Chen, Lucky's newest editor in chief, chatted with Business of Fashion about how she got the big job--becoming the...
View ArticleSocial Media Drives Less Than 1% of Shopping Sessions, Study Says
Much fuss has been made about the power of social media to drive sales. Studies have shown that Facebook drives the most (mainly because it has the most users), Pinterest is very rapidly catching up...
View ArticleOnline Holiday Sales Predicted to Hit Record High This Year
The lines at your favorite brick-and-mortar stores might be a little bit shorter this season. Not because people aren't shopping -- but because they're doing it online.Forrester Research released its...
View ArticleHow Benefit Cosmetics Cracked the Code in China
For many western brands, China's retail market -- and especially, China's online retail market -- is still the Wild West (or East, rather). All of the knowledge retailers have so painstakingly acquired...
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