JUSTPROUD BLOG

Justproud V2.0

2011-10-30T03:57:00.000-07:00

After some radio silence, being busy creating our new version, we are preparing a cool introduction of Justproud V2.0. The new version will include much more fashion content; 2 top notch editors joined our team. And because Justproud is all about peoples involvement in fashion, we thought it will be cool when we will facilitate cool fashion news of our members as well. That is also the reason why it takes some longer to finish Justproud V2.0, because we will have to create this option in multiple languages. We will count down from now, to early December, when we expect to go live.

In the meantime we are awarded again! We are honored and humble by winning the Davey Award & being shortlisted at the Lovie Awards. Thanks to our loyal members we received this international recognition.

Ok, ok, now we will continue to think how we will create the cool introduction; with more opportunities for you!

V2.0 after the summer

2011-07-01T06:03:00.001-07:00

Yes and it’s summertime, we love to have long evenings at the beach, drinks at the terraces and of course to create a new version of Justproud; JUSTPROUD V2.0

The past year we have made a huge step in creating your global fashion community & now it’s time to take it 1 step further again. To create even more added value for you!

Preview Wireframe V1.9

Here you can see the preview of our new wireframe; the minimum quality standard will be higher, the emphasis is on user generated content (designs, pictures & yes articles & videos as well); we expect to be live with the new version at the end of summer.

These are our thoughts on Justproud V2.0:

Global fashion community
User generated content (designs / pictures / articles & movies )
More fashion related news (product reviews, campaigns etc.)
Global & local matchmaking (with whom can you collaborate)
Video content (fashion shows / behind the scenes / tutorials )
Open castings local
Global competitions
Opportunity for designers to sell directly through your community
Co-creation opportunities

In the meantime we have to close our shop (to rebuild it & add new features) and we will update all content & profiles; in the new version one have to have a profile picture so we know each person behind the member account & and place so we can do the local matchmaking.

The lookbook-section will be cleaned, over time many pictures sneaked through our system but didn’t meet our Lookbook rules. “MY JUSTPROUD” will be replaced to the top of the page (and not in the navigation) and will be enriched by local matchmaking (who joined JUSTPROUD in your neighborhood) .

Please share your thoughts on how improve JUSTPROUD together!

TOP 10 Finalists & summertime

2011-06-23T12:09:00.000-07:00

Portfolio contest

Heading towards the end of the Portfolio contest we have made a selection of the members with the most votes (so far); please find here the TOP10 Finalists.

Summertime

We are 2 days into summer already & we definitely like it :-) We will use summer to redefine Justproud & see how we will improve the site, functionalities & especially the added value.

Please feel free to share your thoughts on this.

Top 20 so far..

2011-06-15T03:04:00.000-07:00

Please find here our Top 20 (so far), from our Portfolio contest!

Top 25 so far & new design

2011-05-26T13:35:00.000-07:00

After the last Top 30 now we have a real TOP25. The differences between all contestants is still small but still slowly bigger than 2 weeks ago.

In general we see that models are in amount the most active to participate, but photographers & designers are more eager to get votes apparently. But the contest remains still 33 days, so a lot can change.

Next week the design from our previous winner Hazerico will be in presale; very exciting to see if all fans also will buy the design. We are also looking forward to the photoshoot with Alena in August.

That will give us an opportunity to shoot some new content for the site trailer together with Alena as well;

Talking about the site. We are currently in the process of redesigning the site & adding some functionalities. We started off with a simple one for the first contest, few months later we introduced the co-creation site, than we created the current site because of our partnership with MSN & now we are reengineering the current site to the platform where we will provide more added value, not only co-creation but also a lot of networking opportunities.

Soon we hope to present you some screenshot of the new design.

In case you have any ideas, please share it with us.

Enjoy your weekend!

an other award :-)

2011-05-10T03:24:00.000-07:00

We agree, its amazing..... we won an other award!!!!!!
This time its the Summit Creative Award, which spotlights works created by small and mid-size marketing firms around the globe. Recognized for its prestige worldwide, the SCA has become a coveted honor to its award recipients.

We thank you all again for making this possible _ it will motivate us to keep creating added value for you all.

Justproud awarded

2011-05-05T07:39:00.000-07:00

Yes, we did it again; together with you all we recieved the Horizon Interactive Award; in the category "social media"we won Silver!
Its always nice to get industry recognition, especially when it is 5 times! :-)

We hope a cristal Award :-)

We can not do it without you, so its your reward as well.

In the meantime we are busy aranging the shoot with the winners;
Currently we are finalizing all contracts, visa & setting a date for the shoot. Our winning designs is in (Hazerico, our Italian winner, sent the final sample incl the sketch & made us very happy!)

Sample of winning design

Looking forward craeting cool things together

And we are thinking about Justproud V2.0
Having this site online for about half a year its time to rethink the concept;
next week we will share some insights, to see how we can co-create the next version.

Winners 2nd International contest

2011-04-20T11:01:00.000-07:00

Woop, woop, After 2 months of competing our 2nd International Contest had over 800 contestants. After checking the votes we are very proud to announce the winners:

winning design

Winning designer: Hazerico - Italy

She began her fashion adventure designing accessories for some boutiques in London and Istanbul while studying Marketing in Kocaeli University. After that she took LaSalle Fashion Design Education and attended the fashion courses at Sydney Tafe Institute, Australia, where she lived for three years. In her country she joined in working life the enjoyable and didactic team of the most important brand of Turkey, Derishow. After that experience she began to design clothes and accessories for boutiques in Istanbul, Milano and Florida. Combining her two passions, creation and travel along different and new places, she moved to Italy and completed her first collection “HAZERICO 2011 SPRING\SUMMER”

Runners up: Stefy & Honey

Runners up are : Stefy Bordin – United Kingdom & Honey Purugganan – Philippines

Winning model: Alena Golikova - Ukraine

Runner up: Dakota & Akina

Runners up: Dakota Grosvenor – United States & Akina Thoklen – Singapore

Winning photographer: Justine Louise - UK

Runners up: Daniela & Iva

Runners up: Daniela Voicescu – United States & Iva Mažgútová – Czech Republic

Good luck to all & thanks for participating;

We will arrange the photoshoot pretty soon & will show the result at our site.

& yep, we just started our new contest in which we have over $1500 prize money to improve portfolios!

Announcement & quiz

2011-04-14T01:41:00.000-07:00

The announcement of contest winners

Oops, due to the massive amounts of votes we have to check, we have a small delay in announcing the winners.

We expect to announce the winner in the beginning of next week (around April 18th) Thanks for understanding.

Style quiz

Our Fashion quiz is running nicely, many memebers did complete the quiz & for now the result is:

Glamour = 29,2%

Classic = 28,1%

Girly style = 17 %

Trendsetter = 13,1%

Street style = 12,6 %

Fashion quiz live!

2011-03-30T04:43:00.000-07:00

Almost at the end of the contest we started a new initiative: our fashion quiz.

A quiz with 10 questions to determine which fashion style you have. In the quiz we incorporated some of our members as well.

The quiz is online for 12 hours now & the members who made the test could be divided into 5 categories:

Classic = 28,8%

Glamour = 26,8%

Trendsetter = 19,6%

Girly style = 14,4%

Street style = 10,3%

We hope this will give a better insight to our designers;

Over time we will give you regular updates on this & will develop more tests.

Final contest update

2011-03-24T08:21:00.000-07:00

We’re almost nearing the finish of the second international contest by JUSTPROUD. Here we’ve uploaded collages of the top 5 designers, top 10 models, top 10 photographers and a collage of with 10 promising members. This is just an indication of the voting process, still anyone has a chance!

TOP 5 Designs so far..

TOP 10 models so far..

TOP 10 Photographers so far..

Promising contestants last week ….

Contest Update March 17

2011-03-17T08:23:00.000-07:00

Only 2 weeks to go & please find here the collage of the Top contestants (till March 15th) ; we added a “promising” collage again, for people who are rising in the contest;
The end is near, but it aint over yet till the fat lady sings!

TOP 10 Designs so far..

TOP 20 models so far..

TOP 20 Photographers so far..

Promising contestants last week ….

Support Japan – buy a T-shirt

2011-03-17T08:18:00.000-07:00

JUSTPROUD supports Japan and organized a fundraising. For every purchase of anyJUSTPROUD t-shirt between the 15^thuntil the 31^stof March, we donate $7 dollars to the Japanese Red Cross Society.

Tsunami & mega-quake Japan

2011-03-11T00:55:00.000-08:00

Our heart is with all the people in Japan; we hope that the situation will recover soon;

US, Australia and whole Pacific region are on tsunami alert after this mega-quake strikes Japan.
A tsunami warning has been issued right across the Pacific region including Hawaii, the west coast of the United States, South America and Australia after Japan was struck by a devastating earthquake in the early hours of this morning.
Obviously we are thinking of extending the contest; because we have many members in this region & also members who are high in the contest.

We will follow the situation carefully & update you on the effect on the contest & more important we think how we can support the Japanese people via Justproud.

Update top contestants

2011-03-11T00:45:00.000-08:00

Please find here the collage of the Top contestants (till March 8th) ; we added a “promising” collage, for people who are rising in the contest; the difference between the top & all other contestants is still not too big so please do your best to win this competition; good luck!

TOP 10 Designs so far..

TOP 20 models so far..

TOP 20 Photographers so far..

Promising contestants last week ….

Top contestants so far...

2011-02-28T12:03:00.000-08:00

Please find here the collage of the Top contestants; the difference between the top & all other contestants isnt too big so please do your best to win this competition; good luck!

TOP 10 Designs so far..

TOP 20 models so far..

TOP 20 Photographers so far..

Site updates & FB change

2011-02-15T02:06:00.000-08:00

Our contest started 2 weeks ago and already we have many contestants; so cool to see that people form over 20 countries entered already; and yes, its growing;

End of February we will give you a top-ranking in each category.

Design update

While creating the contest we took the opportunity to change a part of the site design; therefor it took some longer to started with the contest, but we are very happy with the result;

The profile page of the contest is renewed; the pictures are bigger so people can show themselves better; and the page with all contestants is nicer (at least that is what we think).

Facebook page

We have also changed our Facebook page; we included a shop opportunity & the welcome page is dedicated to the contest.

As you see we are in full speed, to boost the community & are very happy with your effort to do the same!

Contest information!

2011-02-03T21:25:00.000-08:00

The contest is started and we have already over more than 70 entries and growing; very cool!
When we started we decided to make the % of votes visible to everybody, but at the last testing round we had to conclude that this would give the chance to manipulate the system (unvoting & fraud).
Unfortunately in the version which was set live, the % where included.

Yesterday evening we have adjusted the system; not showing the % of votes anymore, but our system still keep track on them; so now at all contestants its says "0%" votes.
In the upcoming hours we will see how we can take away this as well, because it doesn't represent your actual %.
So basically nothing has change at the amount of votes the contestant has earned. Thanks for understanding & good luck with the contest!

2nd International Contest Started!

2011-01-31T22:06:00.000-08:00

Yes, yes, yes, we did it again (with you support). We are proud to announce that the 2nd international contest is open from the 1^stof February until the 31^stof March. YOU create the new fashion collection and campaign!

Anyone can take part by uploading or influencing designs and choosing the model and photographer. The winners attend the shoot of JUSTPROUD in Asia or Europe at the end of April!

See all at http://www.justproud.com/cocreation/summertop

Contest will start February 1st

2011-01-26T09:10:00.000-08:00

Yes, we know it took some longer than we expected to start the new International Contest. But now its time to share with you that it will all start at Feb 1st!
So only a few more nights of sleep & everybody can enter!

YES, you can pre-order

2011-01-13T11:41:00.000-08:00

As announced at the end of the year; we will increase the activities on the design process.
So now, for the first time, it’s possible to pre-order a design of a member in the shop! The community has selected some popular designs that you can now pre-order in the shop so it can get produced.
Support the members Christopher, Stefy, Yina, Floriaan and Grandi to realize their fashion dreams. Pre-order the design to show your appreciation for their work and talent.Christopher created an elegant winter blouse, while Grandi and Floriaan both designed summer t-shirts, both with an interesting story behind the design. Yina and Stefy share their dress designs with us. Yina’s design is multifunctional too as it can also be worn as a top.

PRE-ORDERING
Pre-orders tell us how many members would like to wear the design. This is important as JUSTPROUD doesn't want to create designs that members don't feel like wearing. When you place a pre-order you will not have to finish the payment. You'll get a notification for the payment when the design is produced, so you can still change your mind.

JUSTPROUD
JUSTPROUD is a community where fashion talents get connected to realize their dream. We offer you a platform so you can design, model and photograph together with other members.

The process
Designs uploaded by members get promoted by them and gain votes. Models and photographers who like the design connect their profile to let us know that they’d like to attend a shoot for the designs. When a design gets enough votes it becomes pre-orderable in the shop. As soon as the design receives enough pre-orders, it will be produced and shipped. The photo shoot with the most popular model and designer can also start!

So today is a very special day as we together make progress in realizing the concept of JUSTPROUD.

Curious about the first pre-orderable designs? Go to the shop and support the designers!

HAPPY 2011

2010-12-31T06:30:00.000-08:00

Enjoying the old & the new: we look back at 2010 as a year that makes us happy & we welcome 2011!

2010 was an amazing year for JUSTPROUD. The first international shoot with the winning members, the new website, the first MAGAZINE and of course the involvement of over 10.000 members. We are very proud of meeting all the talents who all inspire the JUSTPROUD-team & together we won 3 International Awards! Soo cool!

In 2011 the 2^nd international contest will take place and we’re very excited. All members can participate to become the face of JUSTPROUD, the photographer and the designer. With or without experience in the fashion industry, you are invited! It’s the community who decides who gets the opportunity.

JUSTPROUD is an international community that connects fashion talents from all over the world. This makes the fashion processes so interesting.

We wish you the best for the New Year and lots of opportunities in the fashion industry.

Merry Xmas & happy 2011

2010-12-23T23:31:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas to all of you! Christmas means a spirit of love, peace, harmony and the celebration is not complete without a meaningful gift.
Therefore the JUSTPROUD-team presents you the first free MAGAZINE which was made possible by the community. With inspiring members, designs, looks and more!!

2011 will be an exciting year for all of us;

First of all we will present you some designs that will go into the pre-order stage; currently we are discussing with the designers & our production-team how to arrange everything; we expect to have it ready first week of the new year.

Second of all we will start the 2nd International Contest around mid January. We have almost everything ready & set to start this very cool event, with a very cool destination & the possibility for our members to expose themselves.

And last but not least we will include some new features to the site: to give more information to our members & fashionlovers & at the same time to provide more input to our designers.We hope to have this ready at the beginning of February.

Enjoy your holidays with family & friends!

Winners of the Tshirt giveaway

2010-12-16T01:16:00.000-08:00

The raffle to win a JUSTPROUD Tshirt is closed and today we will announce the winners.
We noticed that some people only left a post on the article (instead of posting the link to their profile on our Facebook page). Because of our awards over the last weeks we decided to be mild, so here are the winners:

Queeny Zeshya
Mallory vd Hulst
Hannah Kassey Bacolod
Gabriela Vlad
Mizz T-ny
Victoria Ranoe
Amy Lee
Shi Terrace
Monica Ammerman
Isaa Enguero

All winners will be informed in person as well; Thanks everybody for your participation & looking forward to your contributions on Justproud.

& yet an other Award ...

2010-12-09T01:15:00.001-08:00

Yes, we did it again: together we won an other award; Our mutual passion is clearly visible! This time JUSTPROUD is an Innovator Award Winner in the 2010 Summit Emerging Media Award (Summit EMA) competition.

The Summit International Awards organization is devoted to furthering excellence in the communications industry. Throughout its sixteen-year history, the organization has established itself as one of the premier arbiters of communication excellence. Companies and individuals from more than 50 countries across five continents participate annually in its awards programs.

Thanks everybody! This will push us even more to create extra value for all our members. woop woop!

Contest, navigation & charity

2010-12-03T02:10:00.000-08:00

The beginning of this week we won the IMA Outstanding Achievement Award; a reward to all our members that we are on the right track; very cool!

Contest

We are very excited on creating our next contest; it takes some longer to implement this contest as we feel we had to adjust a part of the design (and a technical part of the site – to allow designers to connect to a contest, by submitting a design; for now the design was the center instead of a ‘general contest’ ). We are very happy with the outcome, but on planning it gives us some headaches. We aim to start the contest before the end of the year. Sorry for the delay, we try our hardest to get it started soon.

Navigation

On the design of the website we thought we should adjust the site, starting with the top headers. Currently we have 3 parts: the header, the login/connect section & the navigation. In the countries where we are integrated in MSN we even have the MSN template above it; therefore people have to scroll sometimes to see the page content (depending on resolution).

We managed to fit all functionalities in 2 parts: header with navigation & login-header.

Over the next weeks we will integrate this adjustment.

Charity

Besides our business objectives with Justproud, we also want to add value to society; therefore we support http://www.friendshipnederland.org/ (the dutch division of http://friendship-bd.org/ ) a foundation which identifies and reaches the poorest of the poor and the most marginalized communities in Bangladesh.

We encourage that you support this foundation as well.

JUSTPROUD awarded by IMA

2010-11-29T12:21:00.000-08:00

The Interactive Media Awards decided to grant JUSTPROUD with the Outstanding Achievment Award in the category Fashion / Style.

The Outstanding Achievement award is the second highest honor bestowed by IMA and an extremely challenging award to win. Our website has excelled in all areas of our judging criteria and represents a very high standard of planning, execution and overall professionalism.
We are very happy with this award & all our members who made this possible!

Win a free T-shirt!

2010-11-24T02:28:00.000-08:00

By heading towards 10.000 members on our new site, it’s time to celebrate!

How does it work?

1. We will have a raffle for giving away 10 grey JUSTPROUD T-shirts.

2. Update your profile at www.justproud.com (make sure its complete)

3. And post the link to your JUSTPROUD -profile on our Facebook page.

4. We will pick random 10 winners.

All members may only participate once; We cannot communicate on the result.

December 15th its over & than we will announce the winners.

Introduction offer about to end soon...

2010-11-16T03:43:00.000-08:00

Our introduction offer at the store for the first Tshirt production will come to an end soon; So in case you want to purchase one, please make sure you will do it this week!
http://store.justproud.com/category/54-t-shirt.aspx
Thanks for your support & enjoy your day!

Within 26 years....

2010-11-15T03:01:00.000-08:00

Over lunch we were talking about what might be and this is what came out: Probably in The September issue of Vogue UK in the year 2036 we will find this overview :-)) So we have some ambition but than again we never take ourselves too seriously :-) Enjoy your day

Your store is OPEN!

2010-11-12T04:08:00.000-08:00

Yes, the shop is open and features the Tshirt designs of Daniel Hernandez; we hope to add more apparel in the store soon! https://store.justproud.com/

Shop & next competition

2010-11-12T02:17:00.000-08:00

Pixelaward

We are still very excited to be nominated for the Pixelaward (best community) This prestige award could help us getting even more recognition over the world. So please keep supporting us by voting for the “people’s choice award”, and we are confident that the jury will choose the best winner (competition is pretty stiff with Aardvark, which is acquired by Google for 50M US :-)

Shop

The last weeks Djon & his team is working very hard to get the shop live; hopefully we will be able to do this today; the challenges we have are that we want to bring live a multi-currency, multi-language shop where we will include as many possible payment possibilities; especially the local ones in the EU are a challenge due to differences in VAT compared to outside the EU; we try to have 1 single price worldwide (including shipping).

It seems Djon has tackled most challenges in this & we are very excited to go live with the last piece of the puzzle.

2nd International Contest

As announced earlier, we will have the 2nd International Competition soon; we will emphasis on ‘tops’ within this competition; so T-shirts, blouses, Tank tops, layers, shirts & polo’s. In the following competitions we will emphasize on other types of apparel.

The prize for the winner of the design contest will be that the item will be produced & that you will get a part of the revenue, having a produced apparel you designed & recognition.

The prize for the winners of the model & photographer contest will be as well a part of the revenue of the produced item, recognition & a fully paid international photo-shoot. For now it seems we will be able to do this in Singapore, Asia. We are sooo looking forward to fly over there with our members & create a cool photo-shoot!

Sponsoring

On the sponsoring approach we are finalizing a proposal for 6 sponsors (both global & local) to team up with us online (the site) & offline (TV show, fashion shows & sampling). The first talks were very encouraging, especially because it is clear that with our 360 degrees/365 days communication offer we have something in our hands which is pretty rare in the industry.

Nominated for PIXELAWARD

2010-11-02T02:07:00.000-07:00

Yes, today Justproud nominated for the PIXELAWARD;
The Pixelaward is awarding the "next big thing on internet": The Pixel Awards take a fresh look at the best on the web. They are the cutting-edge website award, annually honoring compelling sites that have shown excellence in web design and development. Sites are submitted in 24 diverse categories.

Justproud is one of the 5 nominees in the category "communities"; please vote for us at http://www.pixelawards.com/nom_win_2010.php#Community

International contest

2010-10-22T07:49:00.000-07:00

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

2010-10-12T00:41:00.000-07:00

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

2010-10-01T06:19:00.000-07:00

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!

Award, Tshirt & interview

2010-09-24T02:27:00.000-07:00

It was soooo nice to be ‘live’ this first week!

After a long development period finally we show you the new site;

We will publish the results after one month (to have a real standard) but believe me, those are very encouraging!

Award & showcase

Like we announced already, we won our 1^st prize (Fashion Standard of Excellence) & this week our Microsoft Casestudy is published as well. Besides the fact that this is not our main goal, it’s always cool to get industry recognition.

Update & lookbook

Over the last period of time we divided our attention to running the current site, monitoring, and check for bugs etc & for creating our first localized site in Dutch. The last had some more impact than we hoped for but now we are pretty much ready to go.

We hope to add some other languages soon.

Tshirts & interviews

The first Tshirts, created within our community, are in production & we expect them soon. At the same time we are finishing the store, so we can display them there & is everybody able to buy them :-).

Our unique concept gets more attention & we have almost each week interviews; by now we almost can work at any TV station as anchorman J.

This week we were also preparing the production for the Yunomi / Justproud promotion. We are waiting for the winning design & ones that is in, we will share it with you.

Now its weekend but we are already looking forward to next week !

Award for Justproud

2010-09-17T04:47:00.000-07:00

Yep, we did win our first award: The Web Marketing Association is proud to present
this 2010 Webaward "Fashion Standard of Excellence" to JUSTPROUD

Justproud V1.0 beta is live

2010-09-15T09:15:00.000-07:00

Yes, today we are live with the new version of JUSTPROUD.

First of all we’d like to thank you for all your input and effort. Our beta-version gave great insights on how we can facilitate our members better. So we are looking forward to your reactions.

In the upcoming days we will improve all imperfect items that we’ll find together; so if you find something, please let us know.

So what did we do?

We enhanced the site; from “only co-creation” into a fashion platform.

This way we will have more interesting items for and by fashion lovers. People can give opinions, share looks as an inspiration for our designers. At the end of the day, the fashion lovers are the ones who will buy the co-created apparel.

Main infrastructure changes:

There has been an activity stream added, so people see what other people do on the site, this will inspire people to cross navigate through the site.

Facebook & MSN messenger connect were also integrated; which makes it easier for people to join, comment and vote.

And we are now fully running on Microsoft Azure.

The site has 4 sections:

Opinions:

Here we (and in a later version you) write a fashion story and ask our members to share their opinions; by doing so the designers (& and other co-creators) will learn more about the insights of the fashion lovers who are their target group for buyingfashion items.

Lookbook:

At our lookbook members from all over the world are able to upload their own clothing style. They have the opportunity to tag the brands they are wearing; so it’s both an inspiration for our co-creators as well as for other members.

Co-creation

We changed the design of this section; current members are advised to check their profile.

Now it’s easier to search for members (yes, we have a full name search) and for projects. On the profiles people can comment and you will be able to reply.

Now a more sensitive item; on the voting part we adjusted the required votes to go to the next stage; the reason will be announced within a few days. You all will be happy.

Shop

Here we will sell our co-created items; we expect it to go live early October. It will be fully integrated with in our site and member base.

Please enjoy the new site; looking forward to meeting you there!

New version live

2010-09-12T01:41:00.000-07:00

JUSTPROUD is about ready to go live with her new version of the website.

We aim to be live Wednesday September 15^th . Today & tomorrow we will work on getting the last items done. Tuesday we will be offline as we have to migrate all data.

We expect to be online with the Dutch version on Monday September 20^th .

Other languages will follow later this year & early next year.

We received the photo-shoot samples of the first designs & are soo happy with them. Its cool to see how we created this together with you & see it come alive!

In our V1.0 we will cover more fashion news & therefor we are looking for fashionbloggers. So if you have a great fashion blog, please contact us.

Justproud promotion

2010-09-06T08:25:00.000-07:00

Currently In Holland & Belgium we started a joint promotion with Unilever's Yunomi.

Various women magazines (Viva) include the ad below; in the center there is a code to win a Justproud T-shirt.

Joint promotion of Justproud & Yunomi

Last week of debugging

2010-09-03T08:16:00.000-07:00

Almost weekend and we have the new site running smoothly on our computers. We expect the last days of debugging and bugfixing next week & migration of the database of the current site. This means we will have to put the old site offline for a few hours to put the new one live!

Partnership with Unilever

2010-08-23T05:20:00.000-07:00

As from today the members of Yunomi, the biggest women community in The Netherlands & Belgium, have a chance to win an exclusive JUSTPROUD T-shirt.

Via the major womens magazines in these countries numerous codes are distributed. The winning codes are entitled to an exclusive Justproud T-shirt. The Yunomi members can submit design for the T-shirt & together they will choose the winning design.

This is the first of several promotional actions Justproud will have throughout the world. Our new site will go live next month & then we will present our partners to you.

Cool hangtag & Bulgaria

2010-08-17T04:23:00.000-07:00

Site:

The site is coming together; new features, new design & the opportunity to make several languages. We will start with an English & Dutch version. New languages are on their way.

The main features will include a ‘live feed’ like Facebook. So now it will be pretty easy to follow the people you like & the designs you like.

On development we have some challenges because the techniques we are using are the best for our purpose, but are very new. Not many developers are skilled enough to make enough progress. We are teaming up with Microsoft on various new services & techniques. Our co-founder & CTO Djon Kleine is busier each day with his small development team to make sure we will have a great site at launch.

Find here the new homepage:

Production:

We will receive the final sample today and we are very excited about that. We are informed about the characteristics of the fabrics and these do meet our high quality standards.

Find here the hangtag that will be attached to the first run; including the winners of our 1^st International Contest: Daniel, Vanessa & Bonnie.

Each production run (item) will have their own hangtag with the winners & the winning designer will be included in the name label as well.

Coverage:

Each week we get more coverage internationally; find here an article in Bulgaria. Soo cool!

New label & site versions

2010-08-06T03:43:00.000-07:00

Planning

Next month we will go live with our site V1.0 including the shop!

First production

Over the last months we have worked intensively; we learned, adjusted & will continue learning.

We just received the first samples of the designs form our manufacturing partner Dupon & de Bruin. We made a few changes and will expect to produce quickly.

Design process

We made a few adjustments to our design process; in the new version of the site designers can submit their ideas without providing us a pattern. We will create the apparel from their rough ideas; this way we simplify the production process & ensure quality.

Due to our media partners we will have higher traffic, so we have to adjust the amount of votes to get items into pre-ordering.

Together this will enable more people to get designs produced.

New site screenshots

Below you will find some screenshots of the new site; feel free to feedback so we can take this into account for version 1.1 . The new site is designed to involve all people into fashion; a place where people can share opinions, show their style, co-create apparel & obviously buy them.

Profile page

Upload design

Summer & the next stage

2010-06-21T02:19:00.000-07:00

We have reviewed the co-creation site which is currently online. The results overall are good & the system does work, so that made us very happy.

We did discover things to improve which, so we will adjust the following parts:

Voting on Photographers & models: here we will add the % of all votes on the design that the particular model/photographer received, so it’s easy to see the ranking.
submitting designs we will divide into 2 different ways to submit:

o Simple > choosing this will increase the probability that your design will get produced: here you upload your drawing & description & you leave the execution to us (specific fabrics choice, style of finishing, etc.). This way we will have more possibilities to adjust things to market needs and opportunities, so to produce the item.

o Advanced > choosing this will increase that your design is produced the way you like to see it (incl. fabrics and finishing). This will ask more from you (like pattern and extensive description of fabrics, more effort in getting pre-orders etc). This way your design is likely to be produced the way you like it but its takes some longer & more personal effort.

the voting pages to optimize the usability.
We will add a new member type: make-up artist
will add search options (best voted designs etc)

Summer-time

Besides the above many new features & site-sections will be added.

So during summer-time we will be working hard to prepare the full site release. Nice way to spend our summer J

International contest

Because of some opportunities to team up with some big media companies we decided to postpone our 2^nd international competition towards the 2^nd half of 2010. We are only a small team, and we choose to emphasize our efforts in creating a sustainable full site, instead of improving the site over a longer period of time (which will make us miss the window of opportunity); this choice will get us in the regular business sooner, so we will be able to create the completions in a better frequency as well.

The next stage

The shop will be online from August; it took a lot of effort to meet all our logistic requirements; possibility to pre-order (but not pay yet), to order, (or to put in an order with a produced & pre-order item of which you would like to pay the first & be updated on the 2^nd), to offer different payment options in different currencies & and to deliver worldwide within a reasonable timeframe.

Impression of the shop

The launch of the first full site (still in beta version) will be end of August; we will launch it in English and have a first localization in Dutch; we intend to have several localizations live at the end of 2010 (like: German, French, Spanish & Turkish)

Apologies & new timings

2010-06-02T01:12:00.000-07:00

Yes, we didn’t have much time to celebrate that we were chosen as one of the hottest BizSpark stat-ups in Europe, because we still have a lot to deliver.

After our pre-website, and our beta-version we were about to launch the store in May. With new business models (like ours) one has a plan & over time you have to adjust this; the same with us. We have adjusted our strategy to ensure we will have a sustainable business & business model and therefore we will open our store later than planned.

Traffic is the artery of crowdsourcing, so we spent a lot of time & effort to be fully embedded in the web; soon we will launch Messenger Connect & Facebook Connect, so it’s easier for people to sign up & vote. We are closing with some media partners to ensure great traffic & branding. We will be fully hosted on Microsoft Azure soon as well & we decided to give more importance to the Fashion Lover.

Overall the current co-creation site does what we had planned, so basically the beta-testing went good! It gave us a lot of insights & we will make various improvements.

All the above resulted in an adjusted timing. We have planned to launch a fully new site (incl. store) end of August. In this site (of which we will soon present the first screenshots) many new features for co-creating & (as said) the Fashion Lover.

Our whole team has the feeling we are really creating something special together with you.

This can and will chance the world a tiny little bit, it will give opportunities to people to reach their full potential. Thank you for your support so far. We have a busy summer ahead, but it’s the most rewarding project we have ever done! Really cool!

Cool European Startup

2010-05-27T01:56:00.000-07:00

Yes, we are one of the 28 hottest European Startups according to Microsoft BizSpark; Last Tuesday we attended the Microsoft European Summit in Paris & met a lot of people to let our venture grow more rapidly :-)

Please find more pictures at our Facebook Fanpage

The most popular designs

2010-05-12T05:40:00.000-07:00

Please find here the most popular designs & Tshirts.

1st design crossed the 25% barrier of the required votes.

2010-04-23T03:07:00.000-07:00

This design of designer http://www.justproud.com/Community/Member/cmziggy crossed the 25% barrier of the required votes. We are happy that the co-creation is going well. By building the community getting the required votes will improve rapidly.

Also the comments & suggestions to designs are very nice & most important, the designers take notice of this & sometimes they decide to implement the suggestion.

Also connecting to designs is going well. Both models & photographers are getting connected & gaining votes; we are still in the process to see how we can optimize the voting pages; we keep you posted on that.

So overall we are very happy about the 1^st month.

Improved project search, voting & connecting projects

2010-04-21T04:50:00.000-07:00

From today we have made some improvements to the site:

we introduced the project search
The voting is easier; its both easier to vote & easier to browse through the connecting members
We included tyhe participating projects to the member page, so people know who is doing what & from there you can vote as well.

Example of the improvements on

the public profile page of Dora

Thanks for your suggestions, and please continue improving the site. Next month we expect to have the shop online & start the 2nd International contest.

Improved member search

2010-04-15T02:52:00.000-07:00

From today we have an improved member search; now you can find people based on role, country & available pictures. Along with the increasing member count we will give additional search & filter options. Soon we will have the project search ready as well.

Sneak preview: Vanessa (model) by Bonnie Strange (photography)! More to come......

2010-04-12T02:52:00.000-07:00

Beta launch crowdsourcing fashion site JUSTPROUD

2010-04-07T02:56:00.000-07:00

Site
Let’s share some facts with you about the beta-launch of our crowdsourcing fashion site. Two weeks online gave us many many visitors, new members & fresh designs. The overall concept seems to fill a lacuna in the Fashion industry; real involvement of real people.

The visitors stay an average of 6 minutes & 39 seconds on the site in which they visit an average of 7,18 pages & most members do connect to 2 projects and comment even on more.
With this new beta version there seems to be a more widely spread visitors profile based on location. (see chart).

The first (small) changes are made to the site; navigation is clearer, a ‘join now’ button increased sign ups & clickable comments at the home increased the average page visits.
Right now we are working on the next fases:

Willem, from Mediastudio.nl, explaining our concept to us

This month: More site improvements:
- Better search options for members & projects
- Connecting projects visable on users public profile
- Deep link to voting page for connected members
- Some technical improvements

Next month:
- The shop

Summer:
- Improved site release V0.5 (with many spectacular new features & improvements)

Development
Currently we are investigating & testing, closely together with Microsoft to deploy JUSTPROUD internationally scalable on their innovative Cloud platform: Windows & SQL Azure. So no matter where people live, data will always be up-to-date & performance always good. This cloud hosting solution will enable us to be in the same league as Facebook, Twitter, Google, MSN in terms of global performance & availability.

Photographers contest
Apparently we didn’t communicate clear enough who the winner was of our previous Photographers contest. We sincerely apologize for that. One of the photographers who was very enthusiastic & put a lot of effort in the contest is Ana Pais; please find her amazing work here: http://www.behance.net/anapais .

New crowdsourcing initative
Our good example got some followers: Soon there will be a launch of a new fashion crowdsourcing concept; fashionstake.com; there people can sponsor desigers & bennefit of the designers collection. We wish them best of luck & hopefully together we can expand the fashion crowdsourcing market.

Our partners Mediastudio & thedigitalistas.com

2010-03-25T03:02:00.000-07:00

It is against the essence to create a community by yourself; so besides our core team & members we have some strategic partners to create this movement in Fashion. We like to emphasis on our content partners this time:

Mediastudio, owned by Willem Martinot, did all the motion pictures, editing & is basicly one of the core teammembers; please find here the trailer he made for JUSTPROUD. Mediastudio helped us a lot with production of our first shoot.

thedigitalistas.com is one of our content partners. Their new platform is one for all online fashion- and lifestyle editors. Their goal is to connect with all Online Fashion Editors/Professional bloggers worldwide. They offer the feed on your personal page with all kinds of news around Fashion.

The BETA site release is online

2010-03-23T13:53:00.000-07:00

Yes, yes, the new site release of JUSTPROUD.com is live. It is still a BETA version, because we like to take your comments, feedback & experiences into account for our new version in May. During the next 2 months we will include more features & possibilities.

At the site you also will find the impressions & results of our 1st International photo shoot.
Take a look, sign in & please let us know your experiences.

Our people in Prague, Canada & Singapore

2010-03-21T05:25:00.000-07:00

Please find here an update on new Ambassadors; if you want to represent a region, please contact us.

Marketa Peprna – Prague - Czech republic
My name is Marketa, I live my whole life in the center of Prague, the place full of history and beauty. I like creativity, art, to get know new things and new people, to travel....all this just mentioned leads to another favorite hobby of mine "Fashion". My big obsession is jewelry. In my job area, I often receive invitations and I attend events like exhibition openings, theater and film premiere. I got to know this project by coincidence via my friend and i want to take a chance to participate, help and discover something new!

Michael Carty - Nova Scotia - Canada
I'm the type that thrives on creativity in all its diversity. Photography has been my passion for years and I have trained my eye to see what works in a shoot, from the most dominant subjects to the more subtle elements. I have done many shoots and for me, fashion is more than just clothing, it is an expression and an artform that everyone can appreciate. I would want to convey emotion in all of my fashion endeavours. I am very happy to be working with JUSTPROUD, who encourages free thought and creative expression in all of its members. Visit my website for my work: http://michaelcarty.photography.com/

Herbert Julian – Singapore
Hi! My name is Herbert Julian and I'm located in Singapore. Born in Hong Kong, and raised in Singapore when i was young. I believe in happiness, and helping people is something that leads me and others to it. In Singapore, I have been helping a lot of new blood of Photographers-wanna-be and Model-wanna-be. Everyone still learning and knowledge is never end. I have been fallen in Love with Fashions since young. Observe, Learn, and Create is always my way of life. I learned different fashions from different countries. And fashion always enlightens me. And now JUSTPROUD had given me the opportunity to be PROUD!

Beta site release, first label & other things

2010-03-19T06:21:00.000-07:00

It was a busy week. It took more effort on getting the beta site release live. So our developers are currently making a lot of hours to make things happen prior to March 23th. The effort is not so much in the big applications but more in ‘rescaling pictures’, ‘obtaining a forgotten password’ and so on.

After going live we will make a ‘mock up’ for the next site release, planned in May. In case people know more ‘need to have’ features, please feel free to add to the list; we cannot promise it will come with the next release, but we can promise we will do our best.

Please find here the first test label of JUSTPROUD. It’s for the clothing line our winner Daniel Hernandez made for us. So it’s called JUSTPROUD by Daniel Hernandez.

The sentence at the bottom of the label will be made by our members; in case you have a nice sentence, please feel free to send it us. In the next version we will support this with an application with which the members can vote for the most popular line. So it will be our own community driven fashion label!

In between the busyness we flew to Singapore to see if we can cooperate with some major players in the Asia Pacific region. This would be a great opportunity & the talks there were very inspiring! We will keep you updated.

Over the last months we are cooperating closely with Microsoft. The JUSTPROUD platform will be hosted on a new Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud platform. That will enable us (and other Microsoft clients) to easily handle the growth on a global scale. For both of us it will be exciting times.

To become a cool fashion community we will cooperate with http://thedigitalistas.com/ ; The new platform for all online fashion- and lifestyle editors. In peoples profile we will show their latest headlines, so our members are aware of the latest fashion developments.

YEAH, the new site release online at March 23rd !

2010-03-12T07:35:00.000-08:00

We will update you more within the next week; currently we are working full speed on the new site relase. The beta version will go live March 23rd!

The Winners, Founders & behind the scene

2010-03-02T00:34:00.000-08:00

The Winners & Founders

Behind the scene impressions

The 1st shoot of JUSTPROUD Fashion

2010-02-25T01:48:00.000-08:00

Last Sunday we picked up the winners from the airport; Vanessa (model) & Daniel (designer) both flew in from the USA. After having a coffee we went to the hotel; There the crew had gathered and after lunch we directly started shoot the new movie for JUSTPROUD. It was amazing how these two winners managed to overcome their jetlag and spread the room with amazing energy; the result will definitely show.

meeting eachother

The winner of the photographers contest, Bonnie Strange, was picked up some later because of a train delay (she came from Paris, France & her assistant, Agnieszka, came from Dusseldorf Germany). Zuzanna, the runner up from London, UK, was picked up from the airport after a delay as well; but finally everybody was together for a nice “get to know each other” diner.
After diner the designs were showed and after ‘some’ drinks we all went to bed.

Justproud team diner

The whole team had breakfast at 07:30 and we went to the location at 09:00; there we shot several sets, which we will reveal when the new site goes live. Besides the photo shoots, the whole day was filmed as well, to have good footage for the next commercials. In the afternoon the winners were interviewed, in between the sets, also soon to be seen at the new site. After this long day (but very much ahead of planning) we all had dinner together and went to bed around midnight.

behind the scene

Breakfast again at 07:30 and amazingly enough everybody was on time & ready to shoot for the third day; In the JUSTPROUD office we shot in white background & on the set Daniel created a new way of using T-shirts (you will see).

Interview

In our original planning we saved time for a whole day shooting (and even a backup day in case the result wasn’t too good yet) but at lunch we were finished & very enthusiastic about the result; So in the afternoon Vanessa & Daniel went sightseeing and Bonnie & Agnieszka spent time in our office creating a new way of activating our members; we were very pleased with this input & we will show you soon at our new site what they came up with.

another interview

In the evening we had our farewell dinner, because in the morning Vanessa & Daniel would go to Amsterdam & in the evening Bonnie would go to Paris back again & Agnieszka to Dusseldorf. This time we went to bed a little earlier.

Last breakfast

At Wednesday everybody could sleep in a little bit because we had breakfast at 08:30. Vanessa & Daniel went to Amsterdam and Bonnie & Agnieszka went to our office to finish their creative project & do a photo shoot with it in the afternoon. I can tell you the result is amazing!

Background of one set :-)

The first shoot of JUSTPROUD upcoming week

2010-02-19T04:34:00.000-08:00

This Sunday all winners of the contests will arrive in Holland (Europe) to create the 1st shoot of JUSTPROUD. We arranged 3 days of shooting different photosets sets & movies; also the winners will be interviewed.

We are very excited to meet all winners in person and create some amazing creative images together with them. We will update you via our Facebook page.
The designs are in, the location of the shoot is determined, the hotel rooms are booked so now it’s only waiting for everybody to fly in from all over the world.

Because this is the first time, it took some time to arrange everything; the effort went from getting the designs in from the USA, to doing grocery shopping up to buying a reflectorset. But the most effort went in creating a nice make-up artist mirror. You will see the result in the first pictures & movies.

1st shoot of JUSTPROUD, new site & ambassadors

2010-02-11T02:29:00.000-08:00

The week after next (starting Feb21st) we will have our first shoot of the first JUSTPROUD collection with our first Face. With Bonnie winning our last contest, we completed our team for the first shoot. Vanessa, our 1st Face, Daniel, our 1st Designer & Bonnie, our 1st photographer; we will make some amazing work, with a lot of first in these paragraph :-)

We are busy with preparing the shoot; the winners are invited to Holland where we will have 2 camera teams ready to capture these moments for you. Besides the winners we tried to get the runners up involved as well; with the photographers that was impossible because of meeting deadlines (we are also creating our new site :-), the designers we asked to design a “founding member Tshirt” – the winner of this will be displayed early March on the site; & with the models we ask the 3 runners up to participate in the shoot as well; 2 models finally couldn’t participate because they couldn’t or didn’t provide us with the information we needed.

In general it took us more time & effort to arrange everything with these contests then we originally planned for, but the result will be great!

New site
On the new site we had some setbacks in performance & timing, which we almost cleared by now. We have to say that it will be a cool site & everybody will be rewarded for waiting a little longer then intended. Early March we expect to go live with the Beta-version.

Ambassadors
Please find here an update on new Ambassadors; if you want to represent a region, please contact us.

Yummii Ong-Ly, Sydney – Australia
I am an Entrepreneur and I also have my own self-label [Yummii] which I am really passionate about. The label is my creative outlet and it's the inspiration on why I wanted to be an ambassador for JUSTPROUD.
I believe in ventures that inspire and empower others in doing what they love - I see JUSTPROUD as that. Being an ambassador for JUSTPROUD will enable me to contribute to other people's dreams coming to fruition....and that would be absolutely fulfilling!

Aysha Gerald, Chicago IL - USA
My name is Aysha. I am 20 years old, and live in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. I love the fashion world, and hope to be an inspiration to people one day. I have done some modeling, as well as acting, and I am hoping to get back into that very soon! I am in the process of getting my license for Wedding Planning, and after that, I hope to start my own business, as well as design wedding dresses! Along with fashion, I am also interested in photography. It has been a hobby of mine for a while, so I will see where that takes me as well!

Luciana Leal, São Paulo - Brazil
I'm 32 years old and working at the fashion field only 2. I graduated last year in the course of Fashion Marketing and only after my course finish that i finally found myself at the field. Currently working as Style Assistant at a clothes factory. I'm responsible for the purchasing of tissues department, contacting the customers and recently started at the designing process and including designing my first models.
I'm starting at the career, but I'm very dedicated to what I do, especially when I love my job. I love the career I've chose and I hope to do a good job for JUSTPROUD.

Laura Welch, Orlando, FL - USA
I'm a 23 yr old aspiring artist who developed a love for fashion and music at an early age. I enjoy designing pieces inspired by various musical instruments and songs, and also enjoy staying fit, writing, and helping to inform others about human trafficking. I am also very much involved in cross-stitching, acting, baking, and listening to music from lesser known artists in the singer/songwriter genres.

Bonnie Strange is the winner of our Photographers contest!

2010-02-10T06:32:00.000-08:00

Today we can announce that Bonnie Strange is the winner of the 1st photographers contest of JUSTPROUD. She will be one of the 1st photographers of our campaign, after she will officially accept the prize of course. We are very happy that Bonnie will add her creativity to our Brand & are looking forward cooperating with her. In March the outcome of the campaign will be visible within the next release of our site JUSTPROUD.com. Probably this will be a final stepping stone for Bonnie & for JUSTPROUD the opportunity to show their first collection with this great photographer.

The runners up are André Smirnoff (Brazil), Kerry Brooks (UK), Ellie VdB (Belgium) and Michael Carty (Canada). Due to some setbacks in timing we only can give you the non verified selection of the runners up;

We created & managed this contest with the biggest care & enthusiasm & want to thank all participants & supporting members for their effort. As you all understand we cannot communicate in person or on the site on detailed aspects (as written in the contest rules).
We are now creating the next release site on which many, many contest will be, so that all participants then can be involved in 1 or 2 shoots.

Contest, photo shoot & other things

2010-02-01T03:07:00.000-08:00

Photographers contest is closed
Today Monday February 1st the photographers contest is closed; over the next week we will validate all candidates and votes & announce the winner asap next week. We thank all contestants & looking forward working with you.
Please find here some pictures of Grant Thomas, he is 17 years and therefore not able to participate in our contest, but still we would like to show his amazing portfolio, for more info click here:
http://www.grant-thomas.com/

Upcoming photo shoot
We are working hard to arrange all things for the upcoming photo shoot. We will fly in all winners of the contests on Feb 20st and will shoot for several days. 2 camera teams will ensure that you will be witness of this event as well. The idea is to shoot 2 commercials, some image shots & the obvious product shots.
Vanessa (our first Face), Daniel (our Designer) & the winner of the photographers contest will be interviewed as well;

Production & supply chain
After intensive research, meetings & try outs we have finally selected our suppliers. Our current suppliers will enable us to produce both 1 piece up to 40.000 pieces per item & are able to process all different fabrics and materials; so we are prepared for the near future to facilitate the production.
This week we will have the last meetings concerning supply chain management; this varies from order picking, warehousing up to delivery.

Website development
We are entering the last stage of our website development; we expect to have the BETA version live within 3 weeks. On the further development we decided to make 1 local site in which we can rapidly adjust with new features so we can adept that in the major site once proven successful. We will keep you up to date on this.

The facts of our site after 3 months (vs 2 months ago)

2010-01-26T02:54:00.000-08:00

• Members from 87 countries (was 51)
• Average time spent on site is 3 min & 1 sec (was 3.2)
• Average of 8,05 (was 8.7) page per visit
• Top cities are London, New York, Singapore (was NY, London, Chicago)

We are very pleased with the above result; Especially the growth in the countries our members come from; as you can see at the map we covered almost the whole world with visits; The average time spent at the site decreased with 1 second, that is very encouraging because the current site only gives an opportunity to be informed about the concept & sign up; as traffic increased the average time remained stable.

The decrease of visited pages is due to the contest; participants refer to their page directly, so that is cool as well;

In the top cities London & New York remained in the top 3 & Singapore replaced Chicago.

TOP 50 (so far) Photographers contest

2010-01-21T01:25:00.000-08:00

We made a collage of the TOP 50 (so far) & we did put in a random order. The results are still very close & we encourage all contestants to get more votes;

We are very pleased with the involvement of all participants; the level is high & the people are very enthusiastic. Unfortunately we have some fraudulent votes as well; we monitor this closely & will take necessary actions to keep this a fair contest.

Photographers contest is closed for entries

2010-01-18T06:19:00.000-08:00

Today the photographers contest is closed for entries and we have 258 photographers participating from over 21 countries. The next two weeks all participants can do their best to gain as much votes as possible. This thursday we will publish the TOP 50 (so far).

Daniel Hernandez wins 1st designers contest

2010-01-12T05:15:00.000-08:00

Today we can announce that Daniel Hernandez is the winner of the 1st designers contest of JUSTPROUD. He will be one of the 1st designers of our collection, after he will officially accept the prize of course. We are very happy that Daniel will design for our Brand & are looking forward cooperating with him. In March the outcome of the design will be visible within the next release of our site JUSTPROUD.com. Probably this will be a final stepping stone for Daniel & for JUSTPROUD the opportunity to show their first collection with this great designer.

The runners up are Tessie, Rebecca Lynn and Autumn Roxye; we will think how we can cooperate with them on the first collection as well.

We created & managed this contest with the biggest care & enthusiasm & want to thank all participants & supporting members for their effort. As you all understand we cannot communicate in person or on the site on detailed aspects (as written in the contest rules).
We are now creating the next release site on which many, many contest will be, so that all participants then can be involved in 1 or 2 designs.

New site-release; designers, photographers & Ambassadors

2010-01-10T08:17:00.000-08:00

DESIGN new site-release
Over the next weeks we will inform you (as promised) about the next site-release. We are working hard to realize this; we expect to launch the next release in February. Please find here the new design of JUSTPROUD.COM.

Obvious the photo’s and copy are still examples. You will find a distinction between the shop area (at the left, where people can buy the fashion items) and the community part (at the right, where members co-create the fashion items). The next weeks we will show you some other screen as well.

DESIGNERS contest
Early this week (hopefully Tuesday) we will announce the winner of our designers contest!

PHOTOGRAPHERS contest
Our current photographers contest is going well; already 162 contestants entered! Obvious we are very happy with this; we thank all entries and good luck!

Ambassadors
Please find here some new Ambassadors:

Tess - Edinburgh, Scotland
I have worked as a model and fashion designer for over 6 years. I am dedicated to my fashion work and I’m about to launch a new label called Cherry Trash. I try to get involved with every fashion project I am aware of and just love coming up with new designs! I have two young boys whom I also like to make clothing for. They are gorgeous!

Rykki - Pittsburgh, PA - USA
I am a 25 year old fashion student from Pittsburgh, PA. I have also been a licensed Cosmetologist for 6 years. I absolutely love fashion and anything that has to do with hair and makeup as well. I have an addiction to shoes and handbags. One of my favorite designers is Betsey Johnson. I hope to get a career in fashion and runway or design

Jeyinti – Almere- Holland
Fashion has always been my passion and still is. After finishing high school in 2003 I attended the HES Amsterdam School of Economics and Business where I majored in International Business & Languages. My Marketing and PR internship at the headquarter of the jewelry brand OTAZU in Amsterdam has broadened my interest in marketing communications, public relations and advertising. I love everything about fashion. I strongly believe in the JUSTPROUD concept and brand and hopefully it will open doors for people like myself who are passionate about fashion.

Happy 2010; designers contest is closed & photography contest to start

2010-01-04T03:08:00.000-08:00

First of all the whole JUSTPROUD team wishes all of you a happy, prosperous & healthy 2010!

Designers contest is closed
Today January 4th the designers contest is closed; over the next week we will validate all candidates and votes & announce the winner asap next week. We thank all contestants & looking forward working with you.

Photographer contest starts
Today we will start the last contest before going live with our next site release: the photographer contest! WE invite all photographers to join & upload their example picture, profile & motivation (in addition to this we will ask potential winners before the end of the contest a full portfolio overview, to make sure the uploaded picture is actually theirs.
The winner will win a trip to Europe and have a photo shoot with Vanessa Jace Sanz (and the runners up) in the 1st JUSTPROUD collection. This is your chance!

3 months of JUSTPROUD pre-start.
This week we are 3 months live with the pre-site of JUSTPROUD. The results are very encouraging & warm. When we started the project 9 months ago, we thought it should have a chance & this believe grows by the day. At first we just wanted to launch a website that would explain the concept, but after the enormous enthusiasm we decided to involve the ‘founding members’ right from the start by organizing contests. We started with 414 models, then 66 designers & now we end with the photographers. Our Facebook Fanpage has about 3100 fans & we have ‘founding members’ from over 72 countries! The USA & UK are still the top countries and Singapore is a rising star.

Next site release
We expect to have the next site release ready at the end of next month; we will keep you informed about this & hopefully we can give you the new site designs early next week. We are looking forward to your opinion about it. If anyone has an idea about launching JUSTPROUD at the end of February, please let us know; over the next weeks we will explain our plan for launching & hopefully you can add something to it.

Designers contest & update on progress

2009-12-17T04:51:00.000-08:00

The designers contest is closed for entries from today and we have 65 designers participating from over 11 countries. The next 2 weeks everybody will have the opportunity to gain as much votes as possible.

Many contestants asked for the ranking of the designers & we here we will have the same approach as with the model contest. We will publish the top 10 (for now) Due to the holiday season we will not give another update & the next announcement will be the one of the winner; at the beginning of the new year.

Please find here the current TOP 20 designers, be sure that still anybody still have a chance to win.Good luck.

Concerning the website development we almost conclude on the online shop as well; so now we are pretty much ready to design & build everything. Hopefully we will be able to give you the first previews on the site design before the end of 2009.
Currently we are discussing the time of launch of the next site release & keep you updated on that as well. For now we still think it is feasible at the beginning of 2010, probably February.
Have a great holiday season!

Ambassadors of JUSTPROUD

2009-12-10T02:50:00.000-08:00

Over the last weeks we got feedback on our call for Ambassadors. Currently we have many members who want to contribute and as promised we will introduce (few of) them to you. Over the next weeks we will introduce additional Ambassadors to you (otherwise this will be a very long post).
If you want to join as Ambassador as well, please click here for more information.

Majdeline Abbou - The Hague - The Netherlands

I always had a passion for Fashion. I started working as a model and have worked for a lot of designers such as Otazu, Addy van den Krommenacker, Braez and a lot more. I also work as a Fashion reporter and freelance vocalist.

Joining the JUSTPROUD team makes me very PROUD!

Zuzanna Czyzowska – London – United Kingdom

Hi, my name is Zuzanna am 21 yr old from Cambridge, was born in Poland but grow up in UK. Currently am trained to be an airline pilot but I always loved fashion.. Always wanted to be a model and now I have a chance! I am easy going person who is just addicted to Haribo:)

Alissa Antman – Los Angeles CA – United States

my name is Alissa and I'm from Los Angeles. Born and Raised. My hope are to be able to change a culture for the good and inspire people whereever I go. I believe in volunteering, giving back to the community and helping others for the selfless reason of making the world a better place. I hope to be able to inspire and impact everyone that I meet. Personally I have volunteered at feeding the homeless, pet adoptions, and therapeutic horseback riding. Let's change a culture and encourage the younger generation to serve the community.

Falan Taylor – Philadelphia PA- United States

Former Chef and Current Model for Wilhelmina of PA plus size division

Former Host of the Jewelry Channel live in Austin Tx

Author of Housewife Cuisine cookbook

Trained Chef from Le Cordon Bleu

Lived in Sicily Italy for 3 years and Stuttgart and Ramstein Germany for 1 year.

Lives in Philadelphia PA

Vanessa Jace Sanz, our 1st Face; designers contest, ambassadors & new site release &

2009-12-03T06:17:00.000-08:00

Vanessa Jace Sanz, our 1st Face
Last week was all about the result of our 1st model contest. Vanessa accepted the 1st prize very enthusiastic and said: ““It truly makes me happy to know that so many people voted for me and made this possible and for that I am grateful. If there is one thing I want to do, it's to model. I just want to be out there doing what makes me happy, what brings joy to my life. After so many years of hard work, I am looking forward to all that is ahead. I know this is going to be a great journey, one I have been long awaiting and 100% ready for."
Beginning 2010 we will have the first shoot in Holland (Europe) with Vanessa & we are very much looking forward to this. During that shoot she will be accompanied by the three 1st runners up: Sammy, Zuzanna & Deborah, whom all were very thrilled as well. This will be a great shoot!

Designers contest
Today we start our 1st designer-contest. So if you think you have the skills & ambition to design part of the JUSTPROUD collection, please submit your information & example of your designs at our site http://www.justproud.com/en/designer/. The winner will be one of the 1st designers of the JUSTPROUD women’s collection (either of the collezione or basic label). You will have worldwide coverage.

Ambassadors
We had many applicants for an Ambassadors role in our community. Next week we will introduce some of them to you. We always can have more ambassadors because finally we want to have an Ambassadors network of 150 people, representing JUSTPROUD in all the major urban areas of the world.

wireframe document

Next site release
We finished, with your input, the next version of the site in ‘wireframes’, prototype & specifications. Now Emakina is going to build it & we expect to be live at the beginning of 2010; obviously we will keep you updated on this. To us it will be a very cool site in which we have a lot of opportunities for designers, models & photographers to take their chance. When we have the visuals for the site-design we will post them here as well.

VANESSA JACE SANZ, 1st FACE of JUSTPROUD Fashion

2009-11-25T01:54:00.000-08:00

Today we can announce that Vanessa Jace Sanz is the winner of the 1st model contest of JUSTPROUD. She will be our featured model of our 1st collection, after she will officially accept the prize of course. We are very happy that Vanessa will represent our Brand & are looking forward cooperating with her. In February the outcome of the shoot will be visible at the next release of our site JUSTPROUD.com . The shoot will also be filmed to be finally broadcasted on FashionTV. Probably this will be a final stepping stone for Vanessa & for JUSTPROUD the opportunity to show their first collection with this great model.

Because all models did their at most best, members requested that nr 2 & 3 should share in a prize.
After long discussions we came up with the following:
We create 2 groups: the “1st runners up” & the “2nd runners up”.

"1st runners up"

The 1st runners up will be, in case they accept, involved in the shootings, they will strengthen the image of JUSTPROUD as a community, posing together with Vanessa.

"2nd runners up"

The 2nd runners up will probably be, in case they accept, involved in special shoots during 2010. We will keep them updated on this.

We created & managed this contest with the biggest care & enthusiasm & want to thank all participants & supporting members for their effort. As you all understand we cannot communicate in person or on the site on detailed aspects (as written in the contest rules).
We are now creating the next release site on which many, many contest will be, so that all participants then can be involved in 1 or 2 shoots!

Our progress at JUSTPROUD fashion

2009-11-19T02:56:00.000-08:00

Ambassadors
Currently we are looking for ambassadors of JUSTPROUD, all over the world. We do have several Ambassadors already & I will try to introduce them to you next week. All Ambassadors represent a region, so be sure to reply quickly in order to represent your region. If you are interested work on this together with us, please let us know (by email or via Facebook).

Next site release
We are working hard to get ready for the next site release. We expect this to be ready early next year. During the process we will give you previews of the things we created & also would like your opinion on this. All suggestions so far, via mail, Facebook & our site-forum are taking into account & it is great to have so much input for members all over the world.
Yesterday we had a good meeting with John Deprez, CTO of Emakina (the company who is building the site) & we are very enthusiastic about what will be online soon! Yet, a lot of thinking, business logic & effort have to put in, to make it happen; and with all help of you be sure we will create something special.

Model contest
The model contest is closed for voting now & currently the team is validating all votes so we can announce the winner next week. We had suggestions to make a “top 3 prize” so we are deciding how we can act on this. One thing is sure: the 1st prize remains the 1st prize, because we cannot change prizes during the contest. We will announce the 2 runners-up as well and see how we can collaborate with them.

JUSTPROUD 1 month online & the TOP25 model contest

2009-11-11T02:23:00.000-08:00

Being 1 month online with the pre-site & already so many enthusiastic people! Very, very (did I say ‘very’ already?) very encouraging!

We will share some statistic of the current site with you, to show that the intensity & worldwide coverage is pretty good from the start.

After 1 month:

Members from 51 countries
Average time spent on site is 3 min & 2 sec
Average of 8,7 page per visit
Top cities are New York, Chicago & London
414 models from 24 countries participating the contest

Let’s continue with the last fact. Currently we are entering the last week of the 1st model contest of JUSTPROUD. For that we tightened the TOP50 (so far) to the current TOP25 (so far).

Please see here our TOP25 contestants. 1 model that wasn’t in the TOP50 entered the TOP25, so anything is still possible!

Over time we noticed that people were trying to manipulate the voting system via all sorts of ways. We advice everybody to put effort in different things because we have set up the system in such a way that manipulation is detected pretty soon. We are in this business too long to be fooled in an obvious way :-).
On the other hand we noticed also that many contestants were very active in getting votes & many did get heaps! That’s cool & that is the way we want to play the game!
Good luck to all contestants & have a great day!

JUSTPROUD Top 50 contestants so far........

2009-11-05T02:17:00.000-08:00

Our first model contest closed yesterday for entries. People are still able to vote untill November 18th. Looking into the results (so far) we learn over day & so did we now. Here are some statistics:

414 entries
24 countries
Difference between nr. 1 & nr. 50 is only app. 35 votes!
60% (app. 250!) of the contestants didn’t put too much effort in getting votes

Here you find the 50 most voted contestants (random) so far.

The statistics make us both happy & sad.

Happy for the many contestants & even more the 24 countries that are represented. That is really cool!
Still about anyone is still able to win, because the difference is very small in the top.
But the thing what made me wonder is the following: People enter the contest & they upload a picture, write a motivation that this is THE thing for them & that they will do anything to meet their goal. And then, and then…………………….. They do nothing??!!

That was the part I didn’t get; if one has a dream & it’s closer than ever, one should expect that they would do anything. But apparently people have dreams, they express them & then they wait and let fate take over. Yes, not all people directed to the site want to become a member in order to vote, but believe me, most people will.

The top 50 did certainly put very much effort in gaining votes. They sent their page to friends; put it on their weblog & Facebook etc etc. They are really motivated to win, very cool to see.

Ok let’s see what the next 2 weeks will bring. Good luck to everybody!

The week comes to an end

2009-10-30T06:58:00.000-07:00

This week comes to its end. It was a real nice one for JUSTPROUD.

Over 2000 fans at our fan page
308 contestants
Very enthusiastic comments, suggestions & covarge.

The contest will be a few more days open for entries & then it’s only gaining votes.

We got some suggestions not only rewarding the Nr.1 contestant but also the runners up; we are thinking if & how we can/will do this; we keep you up to date

In the meantime we are busy creating the next release. We cannot wait to put that online. To see all peoples reaction & being able to communicate & interact on our own Fashion Brand platform. But unfortunately we cannot make this overnight, so w have to be a little patient.

All suggestions of the members are taken into account & we think it really will be cool!

We also thought about an ‘ambassador’-role & we came up with this for the moment:

Role:

‘Moderate’ designs, model & photography contests
Member of JUSTPROUD court (the ‘court of JUSTPROUD’ in case members have issues on designs copyrights voting’s etc)
Arrange yearly live event of JUSTPROUD in your region (small fashion show)
Representing your region members (activate them & be accessible)
Periodical updates on region activity / member

Powers:

Change/ delete comments & contest submissions
Being one of the votes in order to make a verdict (or not) at the ‘court’
Submit a plan & budget to arrange the live event
Representing your region actively within the organization
Publishing at the JUSTPROUD website & company blog
Being able to make member accounts inactive (and enter for determination)

If you have any ideas, you can post them at http://justproud.com/en/Forum/ViewTopic.aspx?ftid=26

SOCIAL MEDIA GOES FASHION - JUSTPROUD press release -

2009-10-28T01:09:00.000-07:00

JUSTPROUD Launches First Community-Driven Fashion Brand
From today, ordinary people worldwide can break into the fashion industry through JUSTPROUD: the first online fashion community that actively encourages participation from its members. Members contribute their opinions, knowledge & talents from the start, through the design, modeling and photography stages to the end product: selling their clothes and accessories. Ultimately, JUSTPROUD members themselves will be the designers, models & photographers.

The Fashion Revolution
The classic hierarchy of top designers setting trends which filter down into the high street is being inverted. Now ordinary people who are interested in fashion, or people who want to make a career out of it, have a new stepping-stone to enter this industry and give themselves a better chance of being discovered.

Social media foundations
The familiar social media principles remain the same. Anyone interested in the fashion industry can become a founding member for free, invite their friends and network. If you want to be actively involved in the design, modeling or photography stages you can also upload portfolios of your work. All members are invited to make the important decisions. Members can promote their choices and get as many votes as possible; the most popular designs will be produced and the most popular models and photographers will be signed to the ad campaigns. Their clothes and accessories will also be sold through members.

Co-development
Geert Rietbergen, CEO of JUSTPROUD, announces: “From today, JUSTPROUD gives people the opportunity to sign up as „founding members‟ - until January 1st 2010 - and we invite them to share their views on the process and the look and feel of the site. This current site is available in 8 different languages.

By January the community will be in full operation and the first items will be ready for co-development and sale.”

To become a free founding member of the biggest movement in fashion, please visit: http://www.justproud.com/

JUSTPROUD is initiative of the people of BALLSMEDIA. Where they used to work at the agency-side consulting multinationals like Unilever, PepsiCo, KLM etc, now they emphasis on realizing projects where people (like you and me) are really involved & really get the direct benefits. BALLSMEDIA is located in Mountain View (CA, USA), The Hague (Holland) & Shanghai (China).

219 contestants, translations & (almost) ready for the introduction

2009-10-26T01:55:00.000-07:00

What a weekend this was. Almost every hour contestants enter our 1st model competition at www.justproud.com/en/model/. This really encourages us to go forward. Even we didn’t plan this event initially we are convinced that it was a good plan to meet the expectations of our members sooner than January. Still this gives us a lot of challenges: removing double entries & pictures without a ‘fashion nature’, installing more security checks & making the entries appear random.
Especially the last one is of great importance, to give all entries equal chance.

Then we are working on the different language versions simultanious. So the whole world (or at least the part that talks English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German or Dutch) can be a part of this movement. Because of the latest changes in the site, due to the contest, we were a little late in supplying the version to translate. Our main supplier in translations did their very best, but at the latest moment we decided to go for another translator who could deliver earlier; (thanks to Jennifer, a former employee of my China Company & girlfriend of Djon) so now we will implement the language versions today. Hopefully without mistakes, because it is hard to make a Japanese version when you’re not native Japanese.

Last Friday the people of BusinessWire supported me through their website in order to prepare the press release. It is always exciting to say: yes, this is it; without the possibility to reverse. But James of Businesswire double checked it for us & now the press release is translated in several main languages & ready to hit the wire.
We are very curious how the media will react. Only a few days of (less) sleep and we will know.

Model competition & more than 1200 fans!

2009-10-21T14:17:00.000-07:00

Today we started our first model competition! After receiving great feedback of our members & fans at http://www.justproud.com/, we decided we organize our first model competition. Currently already 60 contestants entered.

Originally we wanted to remain building on the next release of the site, with all functionalities, taken all suggestions of our members into consideration. But because so many members were enthusiastic about it, we decided to meet their expectations earlier and we implemented the model contest justproud.com/en/model/. The winner will be the 1st ‘face’ of JUSTPROUD. Besides that she will gain worldwide coverage, a fully covered trip & be broadcasted on FTV.

Our fan base at Facebook grows very quickly as well; 2 weeks after starting with our pre-site we already have over 1200 fans! A lot of enthusiasm is read from “the wall”. We are curious how this will evolve after of worldwide introduction next week!

Quickly we will continue creating our different languages for the pre-site.

Model competition & other exciting things

2009-10-18T02:31:00.000-07:00

This week was an exciting one. Lots of positive reactions via the JUSTPROUD.com, via Facebook & Twitter.

Many people gave good suggestions & positive feedback. One of my former employees, Bram, currently on a ‘around-world-sailing-trip’, even stopped by & thought with us. I had a diner, at restaurant Christian, with Alex which was inspiring as always. So cool how everybody is enthusiastic towards the concept & want to add their contribution.

Working towards the global introduction of JUSTPROUD, we thought how we could involve our current members already & we came up with the 1st model competition. Who will be ‘the 1st face’ of JUSTPROUD at the January introduction of next release site.

Our fan page at Facebook is going steady towards the first 1000 fans & this excites us obviously.
This week we will start our model-competition, finish the other 7 languages of the pre-site & get ready for the global introduction the week after.

Over 300 fans in 72 hours make us happy

2009-10-12T05:24:00.000-07:00

72 hours after launching our pre-site JUSTPROUD.com we have over 300 fans on our Facebook fanpage. This really encourages us! Because it’s our test version, we didn’t put in too much effort in creating traffic yet. The first test results are in and we are very (very, very, very) happy with those.

Results:

Very positive reactions towards the concept
Very positive reactions towards the site
The conversion to member exceeds our (modest) expectations.
Some members did miss the photo upload, which we have planned for the final release.
4 separate message boards are too fragmented

To make the site better & meet member expectations we will change the following:

4 boards will be 1 message board
We created a “member portfolio link topic”, where members can post their online portfolio temporarily (until we have the photo upload ready).

We tried to find the best temporary option without doing too much harm to our original planning; otherwise the full release would be postponed & we didn’t want to do that; hope you agree & understand.

More than 100 fans in 36 hours

2009-10-10T10:47:00.000-07:00

Fashion lovers, designers models & photographers are currently uniting at JUSTPROUD. 36 hours after launching our the English version of our pre-site we got more than 100 fans at our Facebook fanpage; thank you soo much.
Next week we will analyze the test results of the pre-site and make adjustments as sees fit. The initial results & reactions do strengthen us in our mission: creating a community driven fashion brand together with you.

JUSTPROUD, English testversion is live.

2009-10-08T06:09:00.000-07:00

Fashion lover, designer, model & photographer; this is your chance. Justproud.com is live with its test version. Our own fashion brand!

Preview homepage

2009-10-07T05:49:00.000-07:00

Still in the proces of creating the pre-site. Here you can have a sneak preview of the English site. Hopefully we will enter the testingphase tomorrow. Untill then I leave you with the homepage.

Upcomming week

2009-10-04T04:28:00.000-07:00

This upcomming week will be an exciting one. We are finishing our pre-website; the one in which we will explain the concept. At this website you can already signup as founding member and share your thoughts with us, in order to make a great first release of the community.

The first pre-site will be published in English and after the testperiod we will publish also in Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, French, German, Dutch & Japanese. So you can imagine we have a busy time ahead :-)