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February 4, 2025

‘We don't feature fast fashion brands’: How France’s Vestiaire Collective plans to compete against Vinted

Vestiaire Collective may not be the biggest player in the secondhand marketplace industry — but it has big plans for the future

It’s not that often that Kim Kardashian gives shoutouts to French startups — so when in 2016, the US influencer posted to X (then Twitter) that she was “obsessed” with luxury secondhand marketplace Vestiaire Collective, the Paris-based company took it as a major badge of honour. 

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Daphné Leprince-Ringuet

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is a senior reporter for Sifted, based in Paris. She covers French tech and writes Sifted's AI and Deeptech newsletter . You can find her on X and LinkedIn

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