Zalando Unveils Enhanced Designer Experience and Partners with Rina Sawayama as New Ambassador for Designer Offering

January 22, 2024
Fashion
Collage; left: Rina Sawayama in a black outfit and very colorful fingernails; right: Rina Sawayama in a white outfit with a large hat
  • The new Zalando Designer experience acts as a luxury boutique-style space for designer brands on Zalando.
  • Zalando enters a year-long partnership with British-Japanese musician and actor Rina Sawayama as a new ambassador for its Designer offering.
  • The revamped Designer destination and the partnership with Rina Sawayama underscore Zalando’s focus on superior customer experience and inspiration.

BERLIN, JANUARY 22, 2024 /// Zalando, a leading European e-commerce destination for fashion and lifestyle, introduces a new, enhanced Designer experience on its website and app, establishing a luxury boutique-style space for designer brands.

Offering a fresh and inspirational shopping experience, the new Designer destination on Zalando invites both those passionate about designer fashion and newcomers eager to delve into this world. For the designer brand partners, it offers an opportunity to narrate their story, unveil collections, campaigns and collaborations through an array of dynamic design elements in a distinctively elevated, curated space.

Portrait of Lena-Sophie Roeper in a white button-down and elegant grey trousers

“We can see that customers are increasingly looking for inspiration, personalisation and engaging new experiences. They are also continuously more interested in designer brands on Zalando, with luxury brand searches on Zalando steadily growing. For us, it presents an opportunity to become the inspirational destination for everyone from loyal customers regularly shopping for contemporary and luxury items, to first-time purchasers," says Lena-Sophie Roeper, Director of Designer & Luxury at Zalando.

Zalando marks the launch of the new Designer destination with the unveiling of a year-long partnership with British-Japanese musician and actor, Rina Sawayama, as its new ambassador for the designer and luxury fashion offering in 2024. Zalando and Rina Sawayama will be tapping into key moments in the fashion calendar throughout the year. To celebrate the launch of the partnership, a creative campaign captures Rina’s multifaceted personality through a unique lens.

The enhanced Designer destination and the partnership with Rina Sawayama underscore Zalando’s focus on superior customer experience and inspiration. Last year, the company introduced Stories on Zalando, a new immersive visual-first shopping experience, created in collaboration with Highsnobiety. Stories on Zalando invites customers to discover exciting fashion and culture trends, personalities, and exclusive brand collaborations, putting the spotlight on designer brands such as GmbH, Ludovic de Saint Sernin, and exclusive collaborations, such as MM6xChenpeng.

Zalando Designer offers a range of heritage, advanced contemporary, designer and high-end streetwear brands as well as rising stars and timeless classics. The assortment includes Lardini, Aspesi, Bally, Helmut Lang, Proenza Schouler White Label, Victoria Beckham, Missoni, Rabanne, Vivienne Westwood, 032C, GCDS, Peter Do, Ahluwalia, Ralph Lauren, and Emporio Armani.

Rina Sawayama in a black outfit and a silver necklace for Zalando

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About Zalando

Founded in Berlin in 2008, Zalando is building the leading pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce around two growth vectors: Business-to-Consumer (B2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B). In B2C, we offer an inspiring and quality multi-brand shopping experience for fashion and lifestyle products to about 50 million active customers in 25 markets. In B2B, we are using our logistic infrastructure, software and service capabilities to help brands and retailers run and scale their entire e-commerce business, on or off Zalando. As an ecosystem, Zalando aims to enable positive change for the fashion and lifestyle industry.