Net-a-Porter

Pay attention, you fashion/art/downtown people: The rein of black may be ending. The other day I was chatting with Penny Martin, editor of the Gentlewoman and she mentioned a conversation she had had with the designer Roksanda Ilincic: “She told me she can’t design half as much dark clothes as she used to or that she would like to, because the bulk of her business is now through Net-a-Porter and dark doesn’t photograph well for online consumption.”
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Last week’s Paris collections were rather over-shadowed by events off the catwalk, but one off-piste meeting has stuck in my mind, because I think it’s something to watch. I has been called up to look at a new web site called “Motilo,” the first social shopping site.  Read more

So eBay has gotten itself a creative director, in the form of ex-Lucky mag staffer Andrea Linett, to gloss-up its fashion offerings. At least we know they can recognize a trend when they see one.

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