How badly do you want to look like an extra from The Devil Wears Prada? Would you like to wear designers like Jason Wu and Derek Lam on a daily basis but unfortunately have to eat and pay your rent? Well, Rent the Runway now offers everyday wear on loan. Do you want this? No, really, do you?
Amazon is now selling its very own private-label clothing brands. You know, they’re making it really easy for irritated publishing folks to write dystopias where The Everything Store constitutes the entire economy.
Former Rent the Runway employees describe working at the company as a nightmare tantamount to Mean Girls, reports Fortune, in a deep-dive examining why seven executive level employees have left the high-end clothing and accessories rental site within a year. “You don’t feel it’s an environment where women support each…
So here’s a crazy fact: According to WWD, Rent the Runway will loan out the retail equivalent of $1.35 billion worth of womenswear in 2015.
Rent the Runway, AKA Netflix for evening gowns, is looking to raise $50 million in venture funding. Because it still is not turning a profit.
If you thought you would have to wait for the day when you were making millions of dollars as a movie star or high-priced cat blogger in order to show off your luxurious life lounging around in high-end fashions, think again.
Women once married in their finest—then wore the dress as their Sunday best for several years afterward. But styles have changed so drastically in the last 20 years that most brides won't even wear their mom's wedding gown. Plus, they cost a fortune. Consequently, it appears America may be ready to embrace the rented…
Four years after launching, Rent the Runway is finally offering up plus-size clothing options. Founder Jenn Hymen said in a statement that, “Until now, we have only been able to follow through on this undertaking for virtually half of the female population. We are so proud that our business has grown enough that we…
Just in time for summer wedding/funeral/hot-dog-eating-contest/hot-dog-themed funeral/funeral-themed wedding season, our gal Beyonce has "curated" a collection of dresses and accessories over at Rent the Runway. (That sound you hear is a bunch of curatorial studies grad students wailing into the ether.) So, in case…
The e-commerce site Rent the Runway is the the ready-to-wear couture equivalent of Bag Borrow Or Steal: for a fee dependent on how long you'd like to keep the piece, you can rent — let's say — a Badgley Mischka dress for $125. But one of the downsides of Rent the Runway, and even luxury flash-sale websites like Gilt…
Nearly all of the dresses offered by Rent The Runway only go up to a size 8; the site's size scale tops out at 10. Wear Today, Gone Tomorrow, a similar designer rental service, has clothes in sizes 0-14. [DailyMarauder]
