Glimpse.com Moves Fashion Forward With New Shopping Destination for Women

Glimpse.com Moves Fashion Forward With New Shopping Destination for Women

Today marks the launch of a unique, new online shopping and fashion destination for women, Glimpse.com (http://www.glimpse.com/). This gateway to shopping’s hottest trends and best deals brings together the most compelling collection of top retailers and popular brands across five key categories: clothing, shoes, home decor, beauty and jewelry. The site empowers like-minded, fashion-forward shoppers to discover what they love and to help them unearth great products they might not have found on their own.

Despite numerous online shopping offerings, there has yet to be a fun and engaging place that allows women to actually ’shop’ for what they really want, not just what appears in a laundry list of search results. Glimpse.com uses a highly sophisticated search function, allowing shoppers to find exactly what they are looking for. Gone are the days when women had to spend hours of time scouring the Web across numerous online stores. Glimpse.com provides direct access to stylish merchandise at a fraction of the time it would take to shop across the Internet. The site is also designed to connect fellow fashionistas with one another, and allow them to exchange ideas, explore trends and express their inner fashion whims.

“The genesis behind Glimpse.com was to give female shoppers an easy-to-use and convenient destination that would offer all their favorite brands from the top retailers, while at the same time provide an enriching experience that explores people’s love for fashion,” said Frank Han, CEO and co-founder, Glimpse.com. “Women are quite focused and determined when they shop. They know what they want and we created a place to give them just that.”

Glimpse.com has partnered with an impressive array of over 100 major retailers and boutique stores, and thousands of top brand names, including: Bergdorf Goodman; Bloomingdale’s; Design Within Reach; DKNY; 7 For All Mankind; Gap; Sephora; Macy’s; Marc by Marc Jacobs; Manolo Blahnik; Neiman Marcus; Saks; and Sephora, among others. Glimpse.com will even provide quick notification when prices drop on someone’s favorite items with its Sales Alert Feature.

The online shopping category is expected to reach $144 billion in sales by 2010, according to Jupiter Research.

As part of the company’s launch, a national consumer shopping trend survey* was also released today. Among the findings, 50% of women ages 18-24 are shopping online while at work. The survey also revealed that the celebrity whose closet they most wish to raid was Oprah Winfrey, with 53% favoring her style compared to a paltry 7% opting for Hillary Clinton’s. Angelina Jolie showed an impressive 31% among respondents, while Britney Spears’ lack of style yielded just 2% of respondents.

For the latest in celebrity style, fashion inspiration and more information on Glimpse.com please visit http://www.glimpse.com/.

About Glimpse.com

Glimpse.com is a unique new shopping web site designed specifically for fashion lovers. Unlike traditional shopping sites, which enable searching and comparing across thousands of sellers and millions of products in broad range of product categories, Glimpse.com caters specifically to women and is focused on delivering her a fun, engaging shopping experience. The site brings together the right stores and brands (such as Sephora, Neiman Marcus, MARC by Marc Jacobs and 7 For All Mankind) in clothing, shoes, home decor, beauty and jewelry. Glimpse.com’s expert shopping editors give customers ideas and inspiration around the latest trends, celebrity fashions, and ways to put together stylish new looks.

Glimpse.com is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and is backed by the venture firms Greylock Partners and Redpoint Ventures.