Case Study
Highly Scalable Translation For Fashion Ecommerce
Highly scalable translation for fashion ecommerce Vestiaire Collective, a luxury fashion resale marketplace where users buy and sell high-end clothing and accessories, first launched exclusively in France in 2009. They decided to expand in 2012, first into English for the UK and US, and today, they serve customers in French, English, German, Spanish and Italian. At the heart of their rapid international expansion was the Gengo API, which gave them just the right combination of speed and scalability to help them make a big splash in translating their tens of thousands of ever-changing product listings before launch. When they first decided to go global, Vestiaire used traditional agencies to localize their website’s interface. They found it more difficult, however, finding the