Fashionandyou.com team in place

Shopping club Fashionandyou.com has appointed Rahul Narvekar as co-founder and director. While Fashion and You has already launched its India operations, the online shopping club was launched yesterday.

Pearl Uppal, former director, Sales, Yahoo India is a part of the team as its co-founder and CEO. Aakash Goel has joined as director IT and operations.

Prior to joining Fashion and You, Narvekar was the senior general manager, DLF Retail Developers. Narvekar brings with him over 15 years of experience in retail and media.

Goel was a consultant with McKinsey and Co., has served multinational clients across India, Europe and North America in areas of operations, strategy and organization.

Harish Bahl is the Indian investor, founder and chairman of Fashion and You and he brings with him 15 years of successful entrepreneurship. Bahl is also the founder CEO of Smile Interactive Technologies Group and has incubated and grown several successful leading online businesses like Quasar (WPP Digital & Smile JV) , Tyroo (Smile & Yahoo Joint venture) , Zoomtra and Zumtra.

Fashion and You is aimed at bringing luxury and high fashion brands at discounts up to 70 per cent off retail to its members. Membership to Fashion and You is by invitation only. Fashion and You India is part of a global brand alliance and has completed its first round of funding from European and Indian private investors. With this funding and global know- how of the brand alliance operating in Brazil, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Turkey and Australia, Fashion & You plans to become a significant sales channel for high fashion brands contributing to at least 10 per cent of their sales in India by the year 2011.