29 December, 2013

Today’s the day – the Mr Porter sale is here!

The Mr Porter international sale went live today – at last! The US sale started a few days ago but I’ve had a look and there are still some crumbs left for the rest of us.

As usual, I’ve hunted out the pieces that I think work for both guys and girls, so here’s my edit of what we can steal. Personally, I’m all about the Raf Simons knit and the LVC pocket tee. A classic cotton pocket tee is stupidly hard to come by these days so I stockpile these when I see them…

TOP ROW L-R: Levi’s Vintage Clothing DENIM JACKET, £105 (~~£210~~); Aspesi RAINCOAT, £112.50 (~~£225~~); Raf Simons SWEATER, £171-50 (~~£245~~)

BOTTOM ROW: Kolor STRIPED SWEATER, £232.50 (~~£465~~); Levi’s Vintage Clothing POCKET TEE, £32.50 (~~£65~~); A.P.C SWEATSHIRT, £55 (~~£110~~)

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Disneyrollergirl 0 Comments Menswear, Online shopping, Shopping, Trends APC, Aspesi, Kolor, Levi's, menswear, Mr Porter, Raf Simons, sales, shopping

2 December, 2013

Feelgood fashion? Oh MyGoodness!

Here’s something a little different for Cyber Monday. If you want to join in the excitement, boost the economy, and give back, then why not do your shopping at MyGoodness.com? It’s the latest in social enterprise and means you can scratch the shopping itch while giving something back.

How it works is that for everything you buy, either the brand or the MyGoodness team will donate a percentage of the price to a cause or charity that they currently support. ‘Philanthropic retail’ (think TOMS and Gandys Flipflops) is becoming more common, but it helps that what MyGoodness stocks on the site is an edit of really well chosen products (including fashion, beauty, home, tech and books).

To add another twist, MyGoodness also sells ‘Money can’t buy experiences’ which translates as things like meeting a favourite artist backstage or having dinner with a superstar chef.

On the site right now, you can buy this Clarisonic Plus, this 3.1 Phillip Lim ’31 Minute’ clutch and this Uniform Wares 200 Series Calendar watch (above), all with 10% of the price going to Chickenshed, the children’s threatre charity. Interested? Click here more feelgood fashion from MyGoodness.

Disneyrollergirl 0 Comments Online shopping, Retail concepts, Shopping, Trends 3.1 Phillip Lim, beauty, Clarisonic, MyGoodness, retail concepts, shopping, social enterprise, Uniform Wares

23 November, 2013

Retail remix – thoughts running through my head

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This is just me emptying my head of all the nuggets of retail biz info I’ve picked up lately. (more…)

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22 November, 2013

Clique’s interactive print-to-mobile magazine launches – with exclusive Katie Eary product

Clique

Has anyone quite nailed the ‘shop-from-the-printed-page’ experience that publishers are currently obsessed with? So far we’ve seen a few attempts, with Harper’s Bazaar US and Look magazine employing Blippar technology to bring existing magazine content to life – while hopefully generating extra revenue.

New to the space is Clique, a free print magazine mailed to its target audience, with every item shoppable, sharable and watchable by smartphone. (more…)