Courtesy of GiltGroupe.comAlexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson are the founders of Gilt Groupe.com, a site of invite only online luxury sample sales. The sale starts each day at noon, with a different luxury brand each day. Quantities are limited and items go fast...I mean with in 5 minutes the hottest items are sold out. If you have not visited Gilt, BEWARE you may become obsessed. Crazy it may seem, but many girls I know, must be online and logged in by noon to snatch up the latest offerings.
Maybank, 34 and Wilkis Wilson, 32 the blond look-a-likes are long time friends since meeting in a Portuguese class at Harvard. Gilt insiders and friends affectionately nicknamed the Gilt founders as A &A. A combination of both beauty and brains, A &A both graduated from Harvard Business School and went on to illustrious careers. Maybank is a founder of an online auction website you may have heard about called eBay, while Wilkis Wilson worked as a merchandising executive at Bulgari and Louis Vuitton.
The two women merged their expertise together and Gilt debuted in November of 2007.
Auction items are purchased directly from fashion houses rather than wholesalers reducing the cost by 70 percent. Consumers are liking that savings. Gilt has seen unprecedented online retail growth since its birth, Gilt is now selling more in week than all of the entire 1st quarter of 2008. A &A are a fashion powerhouse to be recconded with.
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