Vestiaire Collective news and archive

What is the Vestiaire Académie? Everything you need to know about this elite training

As the second-hand and vintage market grows, so does the demand for counterfeit experts. Few schools offer specialised training, so for those who want to become experts, Vestiaire Académie, launched by the second-hand platform Vestiaire Collective, seems like a nugget. The history of Vestiaire Académie Vestiaire Académie was structured in 2017...

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Vestiaire Collective, Isabel Marant Vintage and Faume launch pop-up webshop for second hand fashion

A new collaboration in luxury resale: Vestiaire Collective, Isabel Marant and French e-commerce service Faume are launching an online shop for second hand fashion items, US B2B fashion platform WWD reported. The website will be available to customers worldwide. The second-hand fashion items are reportedly "carefully selected", some by the...

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Vestiaire Collective cooperates with repair and alteration platform Sojo

Resale platform Vestiaire Collective is to partner with repair and alteration platform Sojo to provide customers with access to tailoring and repair offerings, as well as Sojo's zero-emission pick-up and home delivery service. The new partnership comes as a response to Vestiaire's analysis of its customers' reasons for returning clothes, with a...

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Vestiaire Collective brings Rickie de Sole onto the board as part of US strategy

To strengthen its presence in the US and expand its global reach, Rickie De Sole, vice president of fashion management at Nordstrom, has joined Vestiaire Collective's board of directors. With her expertise and knowledge of the US market, she will support the luxury resale company in this endeavour. De Sole's appointment is part of the platform's...

Business

Mytheresa and Vestiaire Collective expand collaboration

Online fashion retailer Mytheresa and resale platform Vestiaire Collective have expanded their collaboration and will extend Vestiaire Collective's exclusive resale service to all Mytheresa customers in Europe, the UK and the US with immediate effect. The service was first introduced in Europe for Mytheresa's top customers in June 2021 and was...

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Vestiaire Collective: “Our world cannot afford fast fashion”

“The idea that fast fashion is more affordable is simply wrong” - this is the conclusion of new research by Vestiaire Collective. The French resale platform published its ‘Circularity Report 2024’ last week. The company's third annual impact report shows the results of a joint study with carbon tracking software Vaayu. A consumer survey with...

Fashion

Vestiaire Collective launches new charity celebrity closet sale with Jessica Chastain

Luxury resale platform Vestiaire Collective has announced its latest celebrity closet sale with Academy Award winner and producer Jessica Chastain and her stylist Elizabeth Stewart. Part of the global secondhand platform's growth strategy for the US, the announcement comes not long after Vestiaire Collective introduced 0 percent commission fees...

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Reaching for a million: Vestiaire Collective launches crowdfunding

Vestiaire Collective has launched a crowdfunding campaign with the goal to raise at least one million euros. In return, investors will receive shares, the French resale platform announced on Tuesday. Company shares were already issued to employees a year ago. "Thanks to our continued success, 2024 will be a decisive year," said Maximilian...

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Sellier founder on resale’s rising detachment from fast fashion

Last week, Vestiaire Collective took its stance on fast fashion one step further. The Parisian resale platform extended its ban on clothing from the category to now cover over 30 brands, with the likes of Zara, H&M, Urban Outfitters and Gap among those newly blacklisted. The move followed a similar ban initiated by the company in 2022, and built...

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Vestiaire Collective cuts out H&M, Zara and more in expanded fast fashion ban

Second-hand resale platform Vestiaire Collective has said that it will be expanding its ban of fast fashion in a bid to further its efforts of tackling waste in the industry. While in 2022, the ban impacted the likes of Boohoo, Pretty Little Thing, Asos and Shein, now the company will also be permanently banning Gap, Zara, Urban Outfitters,...

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Burberry launches resale with Vestiaire Collective

British heritage brand Burberry is teaming up with global resale platform Vestiaire Collective to offer customers in the UK and the US a new way to trade in their pre-loved Burberry pieces. In a statement, Burberry said that customers will be able to trade in their pre-loved Burberry women’s outerwear and handbags on the Burberry x Vestiaire...

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Vestiaire Collective names new head of global communications

Luxury resale platform Vestiaire Collective has announced the appointment of Lauren Picciano as its new head of communications, a role she will assume from the company’s New York office. Reporting to global chief marketing officer, Marie-Christin Oebel, Picciano has been tasked with overseeing the global team strategising brand communications...