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Ask HN: eCommerce - Boutique VS Retailer

2 pointsby needlemeabout 10 years ago
I&#x27;m about to work on a project for an high end fashion brand. We have to build the website to present the collections and ideally the eCommerce to sell them.<p>I&#x27;ve been looking to a lot of fashion designer and brands websites and noticed that they all have the same style of eCommerce that to me look very &quot;cheap&quot; if you are a luxury brand.<p>Let me explain better.<p>Some doesn&#x27;t have an online shop - celine.com - therow.com - but many others have it - acnestudios.com - stellamccartney.com -<p>To me those who doesn&#x27;t have it gives much more the impression to look at something luxury, something special. On the others looks like I&#x27;m buying from Wallmart. They all look the same, and not only in the buying experience flow, that yes, it actually works.<p>This brand with who I&#x27;m working already have an online store that will sell clothes for them (they have the online exclusive), so I was thinking to propose something different for their website shopping experience, something &quot;tailored&quot;.<p>So I was thinking, why I should buy from the brand website rather than an online reseller? What makes special to buy from them directly? It&#x27;s not only matter of UI and UX, it&#x27;s something deeper, behind.<p>It&#x27;s like: buying in a small boutique VS buying at Walmart<p>Do you know any brand or website that have some &quot;special&quot; online shop or something that goes out from the common mass eCommerce solution?<p>If you have any ideas about, please share, I&#x27;d love to discuss to see how I can create a &quot;tailored shopping experience&quot;

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