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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.
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.
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