Glimpse.com Moves Fashion Forward With New Shopping Destination for Women
Survey Reveals Oprah Dresses Best & Hillary Clinton Has Work Cut Out in the
Style Category
SAN MATEO, Calif., April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Today marks the launch of a
unique, new online shopping and fashion destination for women, Glimpse.com
(http://www.glimpse.com). This gateway to shopping's hottest trends and best deals
brings together the most compelling collection of top retailers and popular
brands across five key categories: clothing, shoes, home decor, beauty and
jewelry. The site empowers like-minded, fashion-forward shoppers to
discover what they love and to help them unearth great products they might
not have found on their own.
Despite numerous online shopping offerings, there has yet to be a fun
and engaging place that allows women to actually 'shop' for what they
really want, not just what appears in a laundry list of search results.
Glimpse.com uses a highly sophisticated search function, allowing shoppers
to find exactly what they are looking for. Gone are the days when women had
to spend hours of time scouring the Web across numerous online stores.
Glimpse.com provides direct access to stylish merchandise at a fraction of
the time it would take to shop across the Internet. The site is also
designed to connect fellow fashionistas with one another, and allow them to
exchange ideas, explore trends and express their inner fashion whims.
"The genesis behind Glimpse.com was to give female shoppers an
easy-to-use and convenient destination that would offer all their favorite
brands from the top retailers, while at the same time provide an enriching
experience that explores people's love for fashion," said Frank Han, CEO
and co-founder, Glimpse.com. "Women are quite focused and determined when
they shop. They know what they want and we created a place to give them
just that."
Glimpse.com has partnered with an impressive array of over 100 major
retailers and boutique stores, and thousands of top brand names, including:
Bergdorf Goodman; Bloomingdale's; Design Within Reach; DKNY; 7 For All
Mankind; Gap; Sephora; Macy's; Marc by Marc Jacobs; Manolo Blahnik; Neiman
Marcus; Saks; and Sephora, among others. Glimpse.com will even provide
quick notification when prices drop on someone's favorite items with its
Sales Alert Feature.
The online shopping category is expected to reach $144 billion in sales
by 2010, according to Jupiter Research.
As part of the company's launch, a national consumer shopping trend
survey* was also released today. Among the findings, 50% of women ages
18-24 are shopping online while at work. The survey also revealed that the
celebrity whose closet they most wish to raid was Oprah Winfrey, with 53%
favoring her style compared to a paltry 7% opting for Hillary Clinton's.
Angelina Jolie showed an impressive 31% among respondents, while Britney
Spears' lack of style yielded just 2% of respondents.
For the latest in celebrity style, fashion inspiration and more
information on Glimpse.com please visit http://www.glimpse.com.
About Glimpse.com
Glimpse.com is a unique new shopping web site designed specifically for
fashion lovers. Unlike traditional shopping sites, which enable searching
and comparing across thousands of sellers and millions of products in broad
range of product categories, Glimpse.com caters specifically to women and
is focused on delivering her a fun, engaging shopping experience. The site
brings together the right stores and brands (such as Sephora, Neiman
Marcus, MARC by Marc Jacobs and 7 For All Mankind) in clothing, shoes, home
decor, beauty and jewelry. Glimpse.com's expert shopping editors give
customers ideas and inspiration around the latest trends, celebrity
fashions, and ways to put together stylish new looks.
Glimpse.com is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and is backed by
the venture firms Greylock Partners and Redpoint Ventures.
* Synovate Research
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