Imagine all your favourite boutiques and all your favourite designers in one online shop. Well, get your credit cards ready kids because your dreams have just become true.
FarFetch is the brainchild of the founder of B Store who decided that what the retail world really needed was a portal where everyone, regardless of city can access the 20 best independent boutiques from 10 cities across the globe.
They have 200 designers on their roster so far and have made shopping even easier by splitting it into 3 sections: Luxe for high end labels; Lab for experimental and new designers and Cult for diffusion lines and denim labels.
They say of their site:
The boutiques we work with are a carefully chosen collection of Europe’s most respected and loved fashion emporiums, like Maria Luisa and Olga in Paris; b Store, Beyond the Valley and Feathers in London; Henrik Vibskov’s The-V-Store and Paristexas in Copenhagen. Each of them has a very individual and distinctive buying style. They may buy from emerging and niche labels or more luxurious and established designer names, but all the brands are bought with care and real skill. We don’t partner with just any boutique, only the very best.
This really is an excellent concept and is perhaps the most exciting online retail development for a long while.
Queen Michelle
Genius!!!
Posted by: Zad | Thursday, 09 October 2008 at 20:10
Oh no. Please confiscate my credit card, Queen Michelle.
Posted by: Sister Wolf | Thursday, 09 October 2008 at 21:10
I signed up with them a few months ago, are they operational now? Woo hoo! Oh oh, am not supposed to spend for a while...
Posted by: Brigadeiro | Thursday, 09 October 2008 at 21:58
Uh oh . . . it's not the credit card issue with me, I don't have one, but rather this is going to be my new procrastinating place . . .
Posted by: KD | Thursday, 09 October 2008 at 23:21
I saw this necklace on Etsy and thought of you. I hope you like it.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15096380
Posted by: Jamie | Friday, 10 October 2008 at 01:04
I'm only going to be scared if they ship to the US!
Posted by: enc | Friday, 10 October 2008 at 04:56
Be afraid, be very afraid - they ship worldwide!!!
Sister Wolf, I shall be confiscating yours and my own cards!
Posted by: Queen Michelle | Friday, 10 October 2008 at 08:48
Last Saturday i was shopping in one of my favourite places in Florence that carries nice (Scandinavian) brands impossible to find anywhere else... I overheard the owner talking to someone about the shop going online partnering with other European boutiques and here it is! Société Anonyme in Florence Italy, they also sell their own designs, hope they add more for you all to see!
Posted by: Serena | Friday, 10 October 2008 at 10:49
Temptation! Agh!!!
Posted by: Make Do & Mend | Friday, 10 October 2008 at 13:48
Flippin' genius, I tell ya. When my shopping ban lifts (groooan), I'll be hitting this site first thing.
Posted by: Sal | Friday, 10 October 2008 at 17:18
It's so clever, I love it! I hope it's huge success.
Posted by: rollergirl | Saturday, 11 October 2008 at 13:12