A few month’s ago, Net-a-Porter finally ditched mannequins in favor of actual models, albeit headless ones, but now they’ve gone a step further and captured their girls on camera.
The ‘video‘ option’s only available on a few items so far, like the Marc Jacobs skirt at left, an Anna Sui tunic and a DvF cocktail dress.
There’s not much to it, the girl walks out wearing the item and spins around a few times before walking off the white stage. You don’t see her head, which is slightly creepy, and I’m not sure it brings anything new to the item (though if ever a dress drapes particularly well, it might).
Does this fill a gaping hole in your online shopping experience? Is the movement of Marc’s sequins enough to make you click buy?






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ASOS has done this for years, had video of their clothes on the runway. It is nice to see how the fabric moves, but it doesnt usually affect my decision to buy
this other site your friend Lyz writes for has the interactive thingy too; they asked me to put some outfits together, check it out.
Sometimes there no need to show a mug in fashion, look at me! Uber-Cool!!
maybe they use the same models as shopbop and they are trying to hide that “dead behind the eyes” face they all make.
…ugh! as a stylist for a very busy online shopping site i can’t imagine having to do video clips as well. with so much happening all day every day, its hard enough to book models who can fit the clothes perfectly without pinning let alone have nice enough expressions for shot after shot after shot. cut us some slack! we are bringing you the goods!!
Chickdowntown.com has been doing this for awhile. They also have some behind the scenes videos on chickdowntowntv.com
LOL charcoal, all I have to say is “Girl, puhleeze.” Your head is too big for your shoulders.
A gaping whole?
I think it can be helpful to see how clothes fit on a body that moves… sometimes how a dress looks when you are standing still is very different from how it looks when you actually move in it.