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"As luxury brands get deeper and deeper in love with social media,  Fashion Weeks stream live online and popular TV series like Gossip Girl  picture the cr\u00E8me de la cr\u00E8me of New York wired with the hottest  gadgets, we can't help but wondering, is the web the new 5th Avenue?\r\n\r\nAccording to a recent post on Signature9 wealthy shoppers in  both the UK and US are visiting online shops owned by mid-range brands  like Macy's more often than e-shops owned by luxury focused brands like  Neiman Marcus and Bloomingdale\u2019s.\r\n\r\nOf the top 20 e-retail sites  attracting the largest number of affluent online fashionistas, 6 (40%)  are sites specializing in discount sales, either invitation and  membership sales, like the Gilt Group, or designer sales like  Italy-based Yoox.\r\n\r\nThe data used are from Google\u2019s Ad Planner.  The estimated  value of Net-a-porter at $531 million does seem pretty reasonable  now.  For more infographics on the US and UK online fashion market visit Signature9.com and Signature9.co.uk correspondingly.\r\nvia Signature9.com"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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