"Focusing on the luxury trade in fashionable wear and accessories in Venice, Florence, and other towns in Italy, Gilding the Market investigates a major shift in patterns of consumption at the height of medieval prosperity, which, more remarkably, continued through the subsequen…
Focusing on the luxury trade, Gilding the Market investigates Italian market towns at the moment when fashion arrived in the fourteenth century.
The authors share their perspective in the dramatic story of the Gilt Groupe's birth, rise, and evolution.
The authors share their perspective in the dramatic story of the Gilt Groupe's birth, rise, and evolution.
Examines how Gilt, the shopping website, went from a start-up company to a highly successful e-commerce site that offers a new way of shopping for designer clothes.
Traces the careers of the authors, describing their co-founding of a members-only, sample sales Internet site, in an account that shares strategies for building a start-up and navigating the challenges faced by women business owners.