In what they hope will be an upgrade from fashion scrapbooking sites like Polyvore, the founders of Like.com have created Couturious.com, a site that allows users to choose items and put them together on an avatar, creating a “virtual styling experience.”
Basically, you’ll be able to go online and mix and match pieces on a mannequin until you find the outfit you want, like Cher could in Clueless. Then, of course, you’ll be able to buy that outfit.
The site has teamed up with New York-based fashion labels–Alice + Olivia, Cynthia Rowley, Charlotte Ronson, Tibi, Tory Burch and Yigal AzrouĆ«l–who have provided images from their Spring 2010 collections. More collections will be added as Couturious grows.
This is the forth fashion-related site started by the San Mateo, Calif.-based Like.com. (The others are Covet.com and Weardrobe.com, and each has an e-commerce component.)
While the company won’t reveal annual revenue, it did say that e-commerce sales made through the Like.com family of Web sites reached $100 million in 2009. (Like.com gets a cut of those sales but the actual transactions are made on other sites.) The company has raised $30 million in financing from venture capital firms like Menlo Ventures and Leapfrog Ventures.
Will you use Couturious over Polyvore? Here’s a video preview of the site:
Tags: Couturious.com, Covet.com, Like.com, Polyvore



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So freakin cool!
What a shameless rip-off of looklet.com
I can feel a bad midnight habit coming on, whilst I can't sleep I will then couture collage….
…so, just like looklet.com?
I predict a slow, glitchy styling experience, just like all the other sites in this general vein.
Absolutely! I was just about the comment the same. But if they have more funding, they might grow faster, which is a shame.
it's about time someone did this
OMG, if your doing a total rip-off of Looklet.com, try to do it at least nearly as good… No fashion people involved in this ugly thing I hope.
I'm more interested in another launch supposedly happening tomorrow.. Lauren, what do you hear about Nowness.com?
Its already been done, and better as well. http://www.looklet.com
Plagiarism is fun! http://www.looklet.com does this a million times better.
Yep- Not nearly as good as Looklet… Didn't H&M launch one as well on their website??? Again, it wasn't as good as looklet…
looklet actually created that for H&M, so if its not as good as looklet, its because its just got less features and is only H&M clothes.
Saw this article the other day and now I'm addicted to Couturious. I think its a pretty cool site to shop on, and fun to play around with even if I'm not looking to buy.
Couturious is so much fun! I can't stop making outfits. What a great find, thanks for the article!