Save yourself some time and energy trying to find clothes to suit your style by driving around from store to store. From the latest trends to unique vintage pieces, it’s all online.
Trends
Asos describes itself as the largest independent online fashion and beauty retailer. It offers more than 60,000 brands. It also has its own label, producing clothing for men and women, shipping to more than 190 countries. It recently added a Market Place section for unique vintage pieces.
Fashion blogger friendly, Choies is more than just an online clothes shop. It’s an integrated community of fashion lovers looking for the newest trends. The site thus includes collections based on the freshest trends, and the styles shown by bloggers to inspire you while you shop.
A streetstyle online shop, Romwe, was established in 2009 and now ships to over 265 countries. This huge pro-bloggers site is already established as having “the latest street fashion online.” Its international shipping is free.
Boo Hoo is a UK-based global online fashion retailer offering thousands of styles across womenswear and menswear. Since its launch in 2006, Boo Hoo has received awards, including the 2012 Lorraine High Street Fashion Awards best online retailer. With its own television channel, BooHoo offers a new trend every day. The quality and prices are good.
The biggest advantage Stylistpick offers is its combination of clothes from designers around the world with fast fashion trends. Both are hand-picked by the shop’s own stylists, which makes online shopping much more personal.
A site for only men’s fashion Oki-ni was created to work with established brands and progressive designers. It offers new collections from Adidas, Levi’s, Lanvin, Porter, and others.
Vintage
If you prefer slow fashion and all its unique pieces to brighten your wardrobe, ModCloth features 700 independent designers with retro or vintage style. It also offers original vintage clothes, accessories, and home decor. Thanks to the shop’s mission—to democratize the fashion industry—you can vote on which pieces should stay in the shop and which should not with just one click.
Style Sequel offers vintage clothing in a different way, focusing on pre-owned high-end clothing. It also tries to build a community to help second-hand or vintage buyers improve their small businesses.
Love Miss Daisy emphasizes the ecological benefits of slow fashion shopping. Buying hand-selected vintage pieces on this website, you will help recycle clothing, thus reducing textile waste. Launched in 2008, this vintage online retailer offers affordable pieces, which you can browse by time period.
High-End and Big Brand
For a luxury fashion destination, Net-a-porter is definitely a good choice. With 13 years in business, it offers unprecedented access to the hottest looks of the season from international cutting-edge labels. It also offers worldwide express delivery. The site includes high-fashion editorial, updated weekly with pieces from famous designers such as Alexander McQueen or Yves Saint Laurent.
My Wardrobe offers an expert-curated look at investment pieces and wardrobe staples from the finest high-end women’s fashion brands. Launched in 2006, the award-winning website aims to simplify the shopping experience: the team of expert buyers, led by former Harper’s Bazaar Senior Fashion Editor, travels the world to source the finest ready-to-wear clothes and accessories from over 200 luxury collections.
Farfetch gives clients access to independent boutiques around the world, each representing a different facet of fashion. Whether you are interested in Proenza Schouler or Moschino, you can shop at these retailers from any place in the world on Farfetch.
Mytheresa aims to offer high-end classical designer clothing. The web-shop is connected to the Theresa store, founded in 1987. It is located in the centre of Munich and is now one of Europe’s leading stores for luxury fashion. Mytheresa offers shipping within one business-day and is now ready with a luxury spring collection.
Paris-based Vestiaire Collective allows people to buy and sell luxury pre-owned fashion. It brings together a community dedicated to luxury fashion, therefore you need to sign in to see most of the pages.
Avenue 32 is one of the freshest and newest luxury-brand online shops, started in 2011 in the UK. Its aim is to give unprecedented access to cutting-edge international labels, offering the latest in high fashion clothing, shoes, and accessories via express worldwide delivery.
Furthermore, within the site, each designer has curated his or her own individual boutique space, giving clients an exclusive peek into the creative process through video and images.
The hottest offer of Moda Operandi right now is the exclusive access to next season’s pre-fall 2014 collections. It also offers so-called “Trunkshows,” to allow customers to pre-order any look straight off the runway months before it hits the stores.
This online shop offers a broad range of products, including clothing and accessories from the world’s most prestigious designers, exclusive capsule collections, but also eco-friendly fashion, home design objects, or even rare vintage finds and art books. Aiming to capture more art-loving clients, it sells a curated collection of compelling and collectable works selected by curators and critics from the world’s galleries and institutions.
Then and Now aims to meet a “full fashion concept.” Its products range from the latest trends to past trends, including vintage pieces. Collections also includes kids’ fashion, home accessories, and electronics.
With an elegant and extremely user-friendly design, Cocosa offers four sections—men, women, kids, and lifestyle, where you can find cosmetics and also home products.
Japanese Fashion
Since there are quite a few “kawaii” fashion lovers, as a special chapter in our list we found these two Japanese fashion sites. Pinky Girls is part of Free’s International, offering several Japanese small-scale clothing lines.
Mango Doll offers original kawaii fashion with all the cuteness.
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