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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

#11
What are this companies doing that you think is so disrupting? I could not see anything really new there. At the contrary they all seem to be doing not anything innovative or new.

I checked flink and the app could barely keep up when scrolling so they execution quality is not there either...

Re: French startups disrupting the way you experience fashion online

#12

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?

Try these: http://www.mrporter.com/ http://www.luisaviaroma.com/index.htm?userlang=EN http://www.stylebop.com/gr/men/ http://www.matchesfashion.com/mens http://www.eu.forzieri.com/

Re: French startups disrupting the way you experience fashion online

#14
In about 1.5 months I would love to show HN some actual innovation to the fashion space.

I'm getting things buttoned up (pun intended) on a startup we're developing in NYC working a full range of bleeding API's and we've done some heavy surgery on the Youtube API in order to add some pretty cool new UI features. Simply put, we are focused on content creation and curation in a simple, tumblr-esque way.

As we sit now in a closed 'alpha' stage we have a slick new html5 WYSIWG and hopefully we'll be launching with an interesting feature thats inspired by some older, commonly used html tricks using "hotspots" or "Image Mapping". Essentially we wrap up that under-used html trick and make it easy for the user to do on their own, in their browser or device. And without spoiling the fun of the surprise, we'll be using that feature to monetize content for our content creators (and we've also implemented it directly on videos).

Re: French startups disrupting the way you experience fashion online

#15
http://flink.io/

iOS only? Not even a website equivelant? I for the life of me cannot understand this strategy. How do you tell your friends to use it? They all have to own iPhones? You don't want your service to be browseable at work or at home on your laptop? I just don't get it.

Re: French startups disrupting the way you experience fashion online

#16
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.

Well higher end fashion has very big markups so margins are a lot better than selling say 2TB drives.

Re: French startups disrupting the way you experience fashion online

#17

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?

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Re: French startups disrupting the way you experience fashion online

#18

http://flink.io/ iOS only? Not even a website equivelant? I for the life of me cannot understand this strategy. How do you tell your friends to use it? They all have to own iPhones? You don't want your service to be browseable at work or at home on your laptop? I just don't get it.

and the iOS app is not even that great...

Re: French startups disrupting the way you experience fashion online

#19

http://flink.io/ iOS only? Not even a website equivelant? I for the life of me cannot understand this strategy. How do you tell your friends to use it? They all have to own iPhones? You don't want your service to be browseable at work or at home on your laptop? I just don't get it.

One example comes to mind, Instagram. Succeeded very much solely on iPhone platform.
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