Those with a taste for the latest designer looks have long had to deal with limited closet space and tight budgets. Enter: Rent the Runway, a website that rents the latest styles at very pleasing prices. For a fraction of the retail cost, members receive a designer look to call their own for four to eight days.
Rent the Runway maintains an extensive designer list and wealth of cutting-edge fashions. Instead of choosing between that sequined minidress from Roberto Rodriguez and that coral silk stunner from Nicole Miller, you can snag both. Among the other sartorial treasures are items from Milly and Nanette Lepore.
Since founding Rent the Runway in 2009, Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss have turned women’s wardrobe dreams into realities, filling closets with gorgeous apparel and accessories from the industry’s top designers.
It all began when Hyman’s sister began looking for a dress to wear to a friend’s upcoming wedding. She was “not willing to spend a good portion of her salary on a dress that she was only going to wear once,” the Harvard Business School graduate explained in The New York Times. “I thought, there has to be a solution for this.” So she joined forces with her classmate, Fleiss, to develop the mail-order service that has since become a national phenomenon.
Pieces rent for a fraction of their retail price, which generally falls between $400 to $2,000. Rent the Runway has received press in nearly every major outlet, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan and “The Today Show.”
“Hyman and Fleiss aim to revolutionize the fashion industry,” writes Fast Company, which voted the founders two of the most influential women in tech in 2011.
“Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss, Harvard Business School grads and founders of Rent the Runway (RTR), have revolutionized the classic Cinderella moment (minus the whole lost slipper and midnight curfew, of course).” (Elle)
“A start-up with style.” (Fox Business)
“There are dresses for most occasions, even a wedding that you aren’t willing to break the bank over.” (AllThingsD.com)
“Rent frocks for a fraction of the retail cost (and with no commitment anxiety!”) (New York Post)
“Virtual shelves stocked with celeb-loved designers including Tibi, Rachel Roy, Herve Leger and more” (PeopleStyleWatch.com)
Simply:
1. Visit the Rent the Runway website and browse dresses and accessories to find the items you‘d like to rent. You get a free second size in whatever you order, and you can get any second style for just $25.
2. Select the date you want it delivered and the company will guarantee it on your doorstep by 8 p.m. Next day delivery is available throughout the U.S. (same-day delivery in NYC).
3. When you‘re done, simply put your items in the provided pre-addressed envelope and drop it in a mailbox.
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