While most fashion labels are turning to e-commerce to boost slumping store sales, Liz Claiborne is going 180 degrees the opposite direction and killing their site’s e-commerce functionality.
The move is attributed to a partnership with QVC.com, which will presumably become the sole online shopping destination for the brand. Returns for previous e-commerce orders will be [...]
For the past few years, internet marketplace eBay has been struggling to keep up amid slowly-declining interest in the site. Despite the fact that the majority of merchandise on eBay is at fixed prices, like any other online boutique, there is still the perception that the site is merely a dumping-ground for auctioning off used [...]
Big-time fashion brands like Chanel and Gucci have already jumped on the iPhone bandwagon and created their own apps in order to stay connected with their more technologically-savvy customers, but few have programmed their apps to go beyond being outlets for mere virtual window-shopping.
Norma Kamali and Elie Tahari, on the other hand, are among the [...]

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