In fashion's loftiest ranks, the concepts of luxury and discount go together about as well as navy and black, except in one rarefied setting: the sample sale. Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson set out to re-create that élite, high-adrenaline environment with their members-only retail site, gilt.com Every day the site plays host to fashion sales, which, just like the real thing, fling open the doors to the current wares of a single designer—Zac Posen, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Alessandro Dell'Acqua—at insider prices ranging from 50% to 70% off. All sales have a daily start time of...
Gilt-y Pleasures
Two Harvard grads take their passion for insider shopping online. The idea is clicking
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