Fashion Net

Fashion Net
Fashion Net 2016
Type of site
Fashion
Available in English
Owner Fashion Net Inc.
Website http://www.fashion.net/
Commercial Yes
Launched January 1995

Fashion Net is a fashion website. It was launched in Paris in January 1995 by Stig Harder, and was the first fashion site on the Internet.[1]

The website has had several mentions in the press, including The Guardian,[2] The New York Times,[3] Vogue,[4] and the BBC.[5] In 2015 it instituted the annual Fashion Net Awards.[6]

Fashion Net was one of the 100 top sites with the .net domain extension in Entrepreneur/Verisign's first annual .net 100 in 2014.[7]

References

  1. Nirupama Pundir (2007). Fashion Technology: Today and Tomorrow. New Delhi: Mittal. p. 9.
  2. The Guardian. 1995. "Netwatch" by Jack Schofield. p. 5
  3. Teicholz, Nina (22 October 1998). "Women Want It All, and It's All on Line". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  4. Vogue. October, 1995. p. 176
  5. Kate Russell (6 January 2006). Kate Russell gives us her latest selection of the best sites on the World Wide Web. BBC News. Accessed January 2014.
  6. Fashion Net (2015). Fashion Net Awards
  7. 2014 .net 100 Rankings. Entrepreneur (archived version of 31 March 2014).

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