Glam.com Launches Fashion Community Online
Industry insiders, expert commentary brings consumers the sights, sounds and scoop of the fashion world
NEW YORK, February 6, 2006—Glam.com, the leading fashion and style web site for shopping, announced today the launch of its community section — an interactive area of its site that offers a variety of ways to experience fashion online.
Glam gives users a direct line to top designers and industry experts with forums, photo features and blogs. Glam brings the expertise of industry insiders together with the insight of knowledgeable fashionistas and interested fashion consumers to create an exciting, dynamic online community for fashion fans.
Glam Community highlights include:
- Pulse - Live News and Trends
Glam aggregates the hottest blog posts to bring “word-on-the-street” commentary to a larger fashion audience. - Blogs - Editorially Selected Top Fashion and Shopping Blogs
Glam Blog Network highlights premier blogs in its network of established, fashion bloggers. - Photos - Eye on Fashion
Users can view photos from the latest runway shows, rate and comment on them. - Talk - Discussions on Fashion and Style
A forum for users to talk about fashion, ask questions and advice, and let other forum readers know about inside scoop — from latest headlines to sales.
“Based on the quality of our bloggers and the passion of our users, we expect this to be an extremely dynamic area of our web site,” says Samir Arora, chairman and founder of Glam Media, Inc. “As a media company, Glam Media is committed to helping consumers get closer to fashion — staying on top of trends, hearing scoop from industry insiders, assessing their own personal style, or buying the merchandise. We’re excited to have our community channel connect consumers to fashion experts to raise the profile of the industry overall.”
About Glam
Glam Media, with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York, is one of the first companies to bring together the worlds of high technology, fashion, and publishing. Glam has built a category-creating website that completely alters the online shopping experience. Glam Media is backed by blue-chip venture capital firms Accel Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, WaldenVC and Information Capital. Glam Media, Inc. is led by seasoned executives from media, publishing, technology and fashion companies such as Armani, eBay, NetObjects, Tickle, Versace and Yahoo. Professionals lead the editorial staff of the company from Vogue, In Style, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times, and Ziff Davis.
For more information contact:
Chris Constable
LaForce + Stevens
(212)242.9353 x118
cconstable@laforce-stevens.com
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