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Monday April 29th, 2013

Why Trying to Find Pink Jeans Online Made Me Rethink My Love of E-Commerce
e-commerce

Why Trying to Find Pink Jeans Online Made Me Rethink My Love of E-Commerce

I do 85% of my shopping online. Mostly because I sit at a computer all day and it’s a convenient procrastination tool. But also because I know exactly what I’m getting. I can visit a website and find the exact item in the exact color in the exact size and order it instantly.

At least that’s how I felt a few weeks ago, when I started searching for a pair of not-too-pricey pale pink jeans. However, the experience made me realize that sometimes, getting off your butt and visiting the mall is just easier—and that there needs to be more of a connection between online and offline retail.

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Published at 4:45 PM

Wednesday February 20th, 2013

PopSugar’s Rebranding Means Fashionologie, FabSugar, and ShopStyle Have All Been Folded Into One Site
The Business

PopSugar’s Rebranding Means Fashionologie, FabSugar, and ShopStyle Have All Been Folded Into One Site

If you’ve typed www.fashionologie.com into your browser over the past week, you might’ve been surprised by where you ended up.

That’s because PopSugar, the company that owns Fashionologie, as well as ShopStyle, FabSugar and 12 other fashion, health, celebrity, shopping and fitness sites, has rebranded.

Why the drastic change in strategy? I talked with Lisa and Brian Sugar last week about the new face of PopSugar.

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Published at 10:41 AM

Friday December 3rd, 2010

The Best Places to Shop for Fashion Online
Shopping

The Best Places to Shop for Fashion Online

It’s the holiday season, which means trolling the internet in search of perfect gifts for your friends and family. But despite the mission, we always end up buying for ourselves, too.

To put together a list of the best places to shop for fashion online, we considered breadth and quality of product, easy navigation, customer service, and overall look and feel of each site. We did not include flash sales sites, as it’s difficult to judge something on product when that aspect changes daily. And we didn’t rank these stores, because every site is so different. What’s your favorite place to shop online?

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Tuesday January 19th, 2010

Time Inc. Buys StyleFeeder, Says Farewell To ShopStyle

From Luckymag.com to Style.com, plenty of fashion editorial sites have experimented with e-commerce. Mostly by linking directly to online retailers that sell items hand-picked by the fashion site’s editors. Last year, Instyle.com users bought $10 million worth of clothing, shoes and accessories through ShopStyle, an aggregator of products sold by online fashion boutiques. ShopStyle is Read more →

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Published at 5:34 PM