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French startups disrupting the way you experience fashion online

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Re: French startups disrupting the way you experience fashion online

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Post by JacobAldridge »

Definite emphasis in this list on experiencing fashion, as opposed to online shopping. Some eye-catching sites (and products, and prices I presume).

So it's probably off topic of me to ask for any thoughts or links for buying great suits online - not invitation-only great, but wearable and stylish. Or does no-one in the Valley wear suits these day?

Re: French startups disrupting the way you experience fashion online

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Post by retube »

JacobAldridge wrote: post #2

Definite emphasis in this list on experiencing fashion , as opposed to online shopping. Some eye-catching sites (and products, and prices I presume). So it's probably off topic of me to ask for any thoughts or links for buying great suits online - not invitation-only great, but wearable and stylish. Or does no-one in the Valley wear suits these day?

> Or does no-one in the Valley wear suits these day?

not to be _that_ guy, but there are markets for stuff beyond SV...

Re: French startups disrupting the way you experience fashion online

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Post by bertil »

JacobAldridge wrote: post #2

Definite emphasis in this list on experiencing fashion , as opposed to online shopping. Some eye-catching sites (and products, and prices I presume). So it's probably off topic of me to ask for any thoughts or links for buying great suits online - not invitation-only great, but wearable and stylish. Or does no-one in the Valley wear suits these day?

There are good options on-line for suits (look at CommeUnCamion.fr for an extensive source of mainly lower-end, but still very fashionable offers from the same city), but anything remotely tailored is very much a personality and body-type thing — neither translate that well with on-line photos; the whole point of a (classic) suit being to shroud imperfections in dark cloth, i.e. hard to photograph.

There are IT-based innovation, like (still in Paris) Costumes Samson, that uses 3D imaging of your chest for a perfect cut (roughly three-to-four numbers for a suit); they have a web presence, but the added value is still in-shop.

Is anyone in the Valley wearing suits? There certainly are, fewI presume — but it doesn't really matter in Paris, where every entrepreneur wears: dark suit, white shirt & jeans no matter what; and where having a well tailored of any of these three is a great conversation starter.

Re: French startups disrupting the way you experience fashion online

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Post by bertil »

finishingmove wrote: post #3

I wonder if something like hemingwayapp.com could disrupt the way people use the phrase "disrupt the way"...

LinkedIn made a great report, a year ago, I think, on what words were over-used in CVs; not sure if they compared it to common English, or click-though of the profile. I guess Hewingway could do the same, but they'll need your usual reading activity for that: outside of SV/HN, ‘disrupt’ is still mainly something rude you do to a speaker.

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Post by omarkassim »

JacobAldridge wrote: post #2

Definite emphasis in this list on experiencing fashion , as opposed to online shopping. Some eye-catching sites (and products, and prices I presume). So it's probably off topic of me to ask for any thoughts or links for buying great suits online - not invitation-only great, but wearable and stylish. Or does no-one in the Valley wear suits these day?

I suggest checking out KnotStandard, http://www.knotstandard.com/

Re: French startups disrupting the way you experience fashion online

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Post by adam-_- »

poseid wrote: post #7

I wonder how those sites can keep up with technology compared to Net-A-Porter, Amazon, etc. Paying programmers who can develop such sites looks expensive, and reaching a scale with sales margins is rather difficult I would say.

I dare say that if anything they can outpace established companies with technology and risk taking, that's one of the benefits of being small and unknown. What will be harder is whether they can break into an industry dominated by "who you know, not what you know" and if they can build enough of a successful reputation and useful connections to compete.
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