International contest

Day by day our member base is growing; and people are starting to find their way on the website.  To support the current members, we thought it would be a nice idea to prepair some contests for our 2011 Collection, this way people will also find their way though the site more easily. So soon we will start our next International Contest; currently we are preparing everything & we expect it to be ready soon.

Here you see an artist impression of the contest page.

The contest will be for designers, models & photographers. The details & prizes will soon be revealed.

In the upcoming weeks the shop will be live as well. Here we will sell our first items produced by the community. Our signature piece, our LOVE T-shirt of Daniel Hernandez, is produced and in our warehouse ready to ship. Detail will be on the site & in the shop soon.

The signature piece T-shirt wasn’t ready, in all colors, at the time of the shoot, with Vanessa & Bonnie. So for the shop we had to improvise a new shoot with some members. Here you can find the first impression; soon the full set will be on the site & we made some movies about it as well.

We are very happy with the lookbook entries; currently we have over 100 entries already and this is of great in inspiration to our designers. As well are the comments to our topics. Thanks very much for your support, keep up the good work & have a great weekend.

Justproud & MSN

Yep, the moment we have been waiting for; Justproud is content partner of MSN Holland, For one out of six Dutch people MSN.nl is the Internet homepage. MSN.nl gets over 300 million visits per year, which leads to over 4 billion viewed pages on MSN.

PRESS RELEASE

Award-winning fashion website JUSTPROUD content partner of MSN.nl

Crowdsourcing platform makes fashion industry accessible for everyone

The Hague, October 12, 2010 – Today the fashion website Justproud became content partner of MSN.nl. The site was integrated under the topic 'fashion' into MSN, one of the Dutch leading online platforms. Besides the latest and nicest news MSN-visitors will be inspired and informed with daily articles and fashion photography in which they can actively contribute, for example by designing their own fashion, or to participate as a model or photographer to work for the projects of Justproud.

The core of the concept is to discover and to bring talents from the fashion site together so they can create designs and arrange the photography. Justproud makes it possible for most the popular designs of the site, that have enough subscribers to be actually produced and orderable.

Jeroen Verkroost, Online Editor at Microsoft, is pleased with the addition that Justproud brings to MSN, "Justproud and Microsoft fit well together. We want to offer people the possibility to contribute to the site and to show their talents. In the past, we offered visitors the chance to be discovered as a model, now Justproud adds the possibility for our visitors to show how much talent they have in the fashion field."

According to the founder of Justproud, Geert Rietbergen, with a partner like MSN we can make the fashion industry accessible for its users. "The extensive reach of MSN and the online knowledge enables us to renew the fashion industry. With this partnership we can offer a great stage to our members." Justproud is currently busy with negotiations in other countries to realize partnerships for have a global impact in the fashion world.

About Justproud
Justproud is a global fashion platform that brings talent together to create new fashion items. Designers, models, photographers and fashion lovers get the opportunity to take their first steps in the fashion industry, which often is difficult for outsiders to enter.
The site is currently available in English and Dutch, other languages (German, French, Spanish and Turkish) will soon be available.
Justproud has been awarded two prizes: the Web Marketing Association awarded Justproud ‘Fashion Standard of Excellence’ honor and Microsoft named Justproud ‘Windows Azure Showcase partner’.

About MSN
MSN.nl the Dutch start page that always brings the latest and nicest news. MSN operates in more than 40 countries. For one out of six Dutch people MSN.nl is the Internet homepage. MSN.nl gets over 300 million visits per year, which leads to over 4 billion viewed pages on MSN.

Tshirts & other news

This week was one of interviews, receiving Photo samples of the T-shirts and developing the store.

Beginning this week we received the photo samples of our first Tshirts; believe me they are very cool! Now the shooting will be done for the store & then we actually can sell our first items, made by the community!

As we become more noticed every week, we receive more interview requests as well; this week a team from London flew in to make a portrait of us. As soon as it’s ready we will show it to you. Each shot took zillion takes to get it right, but we are improving on this rapidly.

 On developing the store we have a setback; one of our main developers isn’t able to work. The store is pretty complex (different languages, currencies, member information, pre-ordering process etc. so it will give a delay on creating the store as we had in mind; for now we will create a temporary solution so that the sales can continue.

The 1^st 2 weeks were encouraging; the sign-up rate of the site is very high; the potential to interact on the site is higher, so our community officer Joey will make a presentation to the team how to increase this. Somehow we have the feeling we have to emphasize the opportunities more; this is fine-tuning the site which we will remain doing for the rest of our lives, so that’s cool!

Enjoy your weekend & vote & connect to some of the designs!