Comments on: Gilt Groupe is the World’s Most Innovative Fashion Company

By: sloan

sloan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:13:30 +0000

Yet they still can't offer international shipping!!

By: ShoeLover67

ShoeLover67 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:34:41 +0000

Anything fashion sounds good to me! I almost wish they would have a series instead of just a one hour special. That reminds me, I just bought these amazing shoes from a company called J Shoes! I wonder if they are part of teh 800 companies involved?

By: Lauren Sherman

Lauren Sherman — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:33:15 +0000

Hi guest,

I actually thought the piece didn't really say anything new, but maybe I've been writing about this company for too long. The one thing that did shock me was that Kevin--the chairman--was actually the one who came up with the idea. When I interviewed them for a Forbes piece back in February 2008 that was what I was told: http://bit.ly/4bFq00. In all honestly--and this is because I know a lot people who work for this company--I don't think A&A's image is far from reality. They both have the perfect backgrounds to do their jobs. (Alexis from eBay; Alexandra from LVMH.) However, I do think Gilt needs to figure out what it wants to be in the long run. Moving to full-price sales is something they've been toying with, and we'll see what happens with that.

By: jadejade

jadejade — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:17:38 +0000

Here is an invite to sign up:
http://www.gilt.com/invite/jadejade

By: kayla

kayla — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:38:42 +0000

This is the link to sign up http://www.gilt.com/invite/kaylaton

By: greedy but poor

greedy but poor — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:15:00 +0000

love love loved Gilt. But they dont seem to get the good stuff anymore. I think the high end designers decided to do it themselves and control their price point. Hope hope hope I am wrong and the best comes back!

By: The Style Revolution

The Style Revolution — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:32:40 +0000

Ive got the Gilt”y” pleasure

By: guest

guest — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:32:43 +0000

I read that piece too and thought it was very well done. Lauren, would love to hear your take on the carefully crafted images of these golden “founders”.

By: nonameplease

nonameplease — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:27:43 +0000

this is a pretty good expose (sort of) on gilt groupe that i think a lot of people missed because it was fashion week: http://nymag.com/fashion/10/spring/63807/
i don't know exactly how accurate everything in it is (nymag tends to hyperbolize quite a bit), but it definitely leaves you with the feeling that gilt may be one massive bubble that will eventually pop.
also, i just got a NaP catalogue in the mail yesterday. why the hell are they doing paper catalogues? NET-a-porter?! useless.