Fashion startup Atoire raises $9.5M to bring consumers luxury goods without the markup
Fashion startup Atoire announced Thursday a $9.5 million seed round with investors including a16z Speedrun, Night Capital, and Lightspeed Ventures’ Jeremy Liew.
Shoppers can visit the Atoire website and buy handbags or even clothes made from the same material — and coming from the same factory — that manufacturers high-end goods. The items are reasonably priced, too, with an Italian leather handbag costing just a few hundred, compared to the thousands a brand like Prada or Louis Vuitton would sell it for.
The startup arrives at a time when dupe culture has become increasingly popular, while the luxury sector has faced backlash from consumers in the post-pandemic era due to swift price hikes.
As a result, young consumers especially have sought cheaper, near-identical replications of these high-end goods; doing so has become almost a status symbol itself.
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