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Vestiaire Collective

Global marketplace for pre-owned luxury fashion

Overview

Vestiaire Collective runs a global online marketplace for pre-owned luxury fashion. It connects sellers with buyers, handling listings, authentication, payment, and shipping, and earns commissions on each sale. The platform differentiates itself with strict authenticity checks, a curated selection of designer items, and a large global buyer-seller community to ensure trusted, high-quality transactions. Its goal is to make high-end fashion more accessible and sustainably reuse luxury items by providing a trusted marketplace for buying and selling.

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About Vestiaire Collective

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Why Vestiaire Collective is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Consumer Goods

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$729.5M

Headquarters

Paris, France

Founded

2009

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What believers are saying

  • Zalando launched Vestiaire luxury resale on May 28, 2026, expanding customer reach immediately.
  • Vestiaire closed a €178 million round in November 2025 at a $1.7 billion valuation.
  • New product leaders Thomas Hezard and Rémi Bouchez center AI and user experience in 2026.

What critics are saying

  • BBB logged 400 complaints in three years; counterfeit and refund disputes persist in 2026.
  • Fanny Moizant left in January 2026, and Bernard Osta replaced Maximilian Bittner in October 2025.
  • Brands can bypass Vestiaire by building owned resale channels, destroying marketplace liquidity by 2027.

What makes Vestiaire Collective unique

  • Vestiaire Collective’s 2026 authentication stack still beats peer-to-peer resale on trust.
  • It sells only luxury and premium labels, keeping curation above mass-market resale.
  • The May 2026 Zalando partnership embeds Vestiaire inventory across 14 European markets.

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Funding

Total Funding

$729.5M

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Funded Over

11 Rounds

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Benefits

  • Professional Development Budget
  • Company Equity
  • Paid Vacation

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ChannelX
Oct 13th, 2026
Vestiaire Collective boosts sales 5% with Photoroom standardised product shots.

Vestiaire Collective boosts sales 5% with Photoroom standardised product shots. 13 Oct 2026 Photoroom have published results from its work with Vestiaire Collective, the global platform for pre-loved luxury fashion. Vestiaire Collective split its new listings into two random groups. One had its main photo edited by Photoroom, the other by the photo clipping tool Vestiaire Collective built in-house years ago. Listings in the Photoroom group sold at a 5% higher rate of liquidity. Their product pages drew 3 to 7% more unique views, with bags and shoes gaining the most. Vestiaire Collective chose Photoroom after testing several generative AI tools and finding that every one of them changed the items. A photo that changes the item breaks two things on a resale platform. Vestiaire Collective authenticates a share of items from their photos alone, checking labels, stitching and how light falls on the material. Buyers can also return anything that turns out to be fake or has a fault the seller didn't disclose. Smooth out a scuff or redraw a logo and both are at risk. Photoroom's own testing points the same way. In a benchmark of 4,250 AI-generated images across 850 real products, the best AI image-editing models on the market passed a full product fidelity check only 29% of the time. Buyers notice too: 63% of UK consumers say inconsistent product images or branding make a marketplace less trustworthy, according to Photoroom's State of GenAI in Marketplaces 2026 report. We tested different GenAI solutions, and each time they changed some details. Then it was no longer possible to authenticate from the pictures or to make sure buyers could trust them. Photoroom maintained product fidelity, and that's clearly the reason we chose it. - Thomas Hezard, Chief Product Officer, Vestiaire Collective Vestiaire Collective built its own photo clipping tool years ago, because nothing on the market was accurate enough. Photoroom now runs that work as a service for enterprises. Its Visual Agents system, launched in August 2026, brings together the right AI models and quality checks for each catalogue, so every image that goes live is true to the product and ready to sell. Vestiaire Collective operates in 70 countries and adds around 40,000 listings a day. Sellers range from private sellers photographing items at home to semi-professional sellers using AI tools to enhance their photos. Sellers list the way they always have. Before a listing goes live, the Photoroom API removes the background from the main photo, adds a shadow, centres the item and corrects the lighting. Bags and shoes get a deeper shadow to show their shape, clothing laid flat gets little or none. It took eight weeks to go from deciding to test to having results. The same photos run in Vestiaire Collective's performance marketing ads, which became 2% more efficient, while digital authentication was unaffected. Photoroom's pipeline for Vestiaire Collective combines its own models with open models, including FLUX.2 [klein] from Black Forest Labs and DINOv2 from Meta. It runs on NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPUs, with GPU capacity from Nebius and inference optimised using NVIDIA TensorRT and NVIDIA Triton Inference Server. Some of Photoroom's models only get a few requests an hour, so they shut down when idle and restart when traffic arrives. As a member of the NVIDIA Inception programme, Photoroom worked with NVIDIA to put NVIDIA Dynamo Snapshot into production. A new GPU server now comes online from around three and a half minutes to about a minute, so a spike in listings doesn't slow anything down. We looked at how first-hand players create emotion to convince a buyer to purchase a €1,000-plus item. Then we looked at our photos, and the gap was clear. - Thomas Hezard, Chief Product Officer, Vestiaire Collective Nobody returns a photo. They return the product. Vestiaire Collective tried the tools that change products and picked the one that doesn't, and more of its items now sell. Marketplaces have spent years building their own tools to get this right, and we want them to be able to buy it instead. - Matt Rouif, Co-founder and CEO, Photoroom.

Kauppalehti
May 31st, 2026
New opening from e-commerce giant - Boss speaks directly on question about pirate products.

New opening from e-commerce giant - Boss speaks directly on question about pirate products. Zalando announced a new collaboration this week. Today 10:00 E-commerce giant Zalando announced on Thursday that it will start collaborating with Vestiaire Collective, which sells authenticated pre-owned luxury fashion. Through the collaboration, Vestiaire's selection will be available for sale through Zalando in Finland as well. "The market for used products is also growing in the Nordic countries, in some cases and product segments faster than the so-called full-price market," Zalando's Nordic director Sebastian Becker said on Kauppalehti's live stream Talousaamu on Friday. 0 seconds of 7 minutes, 44 seconds Volume 0% Last week, Helsingin Sanomat reported that Zalando customers had received counterfeit products. In Friday's Talousaamu, journalist Tuomo Hyttinen asked Becker whether the Vestiaire opening was a reaction to the news about counterfeit products. "No, it is not a reaction to that," Becker said. He acknowledged that some cases have been seen, but said they are isolated incidents and reminded that the company serves tens of millions of customers. He said that Zalando has carefully investigated the cases that emerged in Finland and has been in contact with the customers. "We apologized and gave a full refund. We are also reviewing our background processes to see what we could do better," Becker said. Friday's Talousaamu also hosted Robert Blumberg, CEO of defense company Summa Defence, and Johannes Leppänen, CEO of MTV. You can watch Friday's Talousaamu in full below. 0 seconds of 36 minutes, 48 seconds Volume 0% Ask Kauppalehti. Ask about companies, investing, economy or working life. The AI searches for the answer from Kauppalehti's articles. Source: Kauppalehti AI generated

The Coupons Feed
May 29th, 2026
Zalando partners with Vestiaire Collective.

Zalando partners with Vestiaire Collective. Online fashion platform Zalando has partnered with French second-hand platform Vestiaire Collective. The partnership is an effort to accelerate the German platform's position in the pre-owned market. As a result, the French platform will be able to offer items directly on Zalando. No comments. Latest coupons. Advertisements

Daily Front Row, Inc.
May 1st, 2026
Daily media: A new CEO at Casablanca Paris, Jodie Chan joins Bottega Veneta, A new face at Karla Otto, and more!

Daily media: A new CEO at Casablanca Paris, Jodie Chan joins Bottega Veneta, A new face at Karla Otto, and more! Bottega Veneta by Louise Trotter Spring 2026 Didier Nguyen is now CEO at Casablanca Paris. Jodie Chan is now lead US Communications and Marketing at Bottega Veneta. Carla Tomillo is now Senior Director, Fashion Comms at Karla Otto New York. Mallory Kantowski as Senior Digital Director and Talya Spiwak as Chief of Staff at ICA. Edward Campbell is now President at General Idea. He will be launching their UK division. Veronique Gabai-Pinsky is now the first chief brand and product officer at Bath & Body Works. Kimberly Wallengren is now CMO at J.Jill. Brice Groulier is now CEO at Etudes Studio. Tammy Redpath is now chief marketing officer and Jocelyn Miller chief people officer at Evereve. Redpath succeeds Tom Nowak as CMO, and the role of chief people officer is new. Edward Campbell is now President at the Creative Agency. Caroline Schultz is now account coordinator at Courtney Daniels Consulting as Account Coordinator. Cass DelValle is now senior manager of VIP at David Yurman. Crystal Tang is now PR Manager, Prada Uomo and Church's. Marc Chaya, president and chief executive officer of Maison Francis Kurkdjian, is leaving the niche fragrance brand that he cofounded and built into a powerhouse. Stacey Chia has left her role as Head of US PR & Partnerships at Vestiaire Collective. She will be joining No.29 Communications. Plus! KCD is now representing 7 For All Mankind for media relations. Carfrae Consulting is now representing ROAR AFRICA, the world's leading ultra-luxe African experience company. Their roster includes The Manner, Soho, The Colony Palm Beach, The Hedges Inn, East Hampton, and RH Guesthouse. La Moda PR is now representing Floraïku Paris. KMJR.World is now representing La Porte. PURPLE is now representing Hårklinikken in the US. Send Daily Front Row, Inc. your updates! [email protected] 0 comments 0 Eddie Roche is the Chief Content Officer of The Daily Front Row/Daily Summer/Daily Hollywood @eddie2275 on Instagram

Drapers
Mar 19th, 2026
Vestiaire Collective restructures executive team.

Vestiaire Collective restructures executive team. Vestiaire Collective has appointed Thomas Hezard as chief product officer and Rémi Bouchez as chief technology officer as the luxury resale business aims to place product and technology at the centre of its next innovation cycle. Vestiaire Collective's Thomas Hezard (left) and Rémi Bouchez Hezard and Bouchez will lead their respective teams to drive Vestiaire Collective's innovation, particularly through artificial intelligence, and improve the user experience across the resale platform. Both executives have been with Vestiaire Collective for more than seven years. Hezard previously served as chief strategy and people officer. He has also held roles including VP operations and customer experience and VP commercial, leading teams of over 100 staff and managing global trust, curation, authentication, and commercial operations. Prior to joining the company, he worked at Boston Consulting Group as a project leader. Bouchez most recently served as VP of engineering for buyer experience. He has also led mobile engineering and supply-side technology teams, and began his career as a developer with technology companies including RedShift and SQLI. Vestiaire Collective CEO Bernard Osta said: "Together, Thomas and Rémi will drive our innovation agenda, strengthen our leadership, and help shape the future of secondhand fashion." The appointments come as Vestiaire Collective looks to accelerate growth in resale and position technology and product at the heart of its strategy. Osta was promoted to the role of CEO in October 2025, succeeding Maximilian Bittner, who had led the business for seven years, followed by the departure of Vestiaire Collective co-founder Fanny Moizant in January.

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