Teeology, Inc. is a
Los Angeles
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-based
electronic commerce
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co-founded by American entertainer
Jennifer Lopez
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and fashion designer
Erica Zohar
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. Launched on July 12, 2012, the company offers
high-end
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limited edition
T-shirt
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s designed by various artists and designers, as well as a permanent collection of basics for men and women. It makes use of new technology and social network tools to "disrupt the traditional retail model".
Foundation and launch
Teeology was co-founded by American recording artist and actress
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Affleck (' Lopez; born July 24, 1969), also known as J.Lo, is an American singer, actress and dancer. In 1991, she began appearing as a Fly Girl dancer on the sketch comedy television series ''In Living Color'', where she rema ...
and fashion designer
Erica Zohar
Erica or ERICA may refer to:
* Erica (given name)
* ''Erica'' (plant), a flowering plant genus
* Erica (chatbot), a service of Bank of America
* ''Erica'' (video game), a 2019 FMV video game
* ''Erica'' (spider), a jumping spider genus
* E ...
. They teamed up with
Brian Lee and
MJ Eng
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to design the company's "innovative" shopping portal, which uses new technology and social networking tools to "disrupt the traditional retail model". Of Teeology, Lopez stated that it is a "different type of online experience", where "you get to be involved in which designs get made. And it gives us a beeline to what people really like".
Lee had previously helped launch the legal document site
LegalZoom
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with lawyer
Robert Shapiro and the subscription-based women's shoe site
ShoeDazzle
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with reality television star
Kim Kardashian
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.
Lopez, who models for the company, also acts as its chief curator.
The website was officially launched on Thursday, July 12, 2012.
Eng explained the creation of the company by stating: "The idea started when we realised more and more customers have become increasingly spoiled with private sale discounts online. We know the markups. So rather than building a brand around cost structures, price points and overhanging inventory that you have to liquidate, why not have a lean model and offer good prices right off the bat?"
Products
Limited edition designs
Teeology offers
high-end
In economics, a luxury good (or upmarket good) is a good for which demand increases more than what is proportional as income rises, so that expenditures on the good become a greater proportion of overall spending. Luxury goods are in contrast to n ...
limited edition T-shirts designed by "various artists and designers". Designers can submit their own T-shirts designs, which are then considered by the company's curators. From the designs they are sent, the curators create a shortlist of designs to be included in a poll. Some of these designs were created by willylopezart.com
Members of the website can then vote for T-shirt designs and the winning designs will go into immediate production.
Basics
Teeology also offers a permanent collection of "basics" for men and women.
Reception
Julia Fernandez of Grazia Daily stated that Teeology "certainly adds a more exciting element to online shopping".
References
External links
Official website
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Clothing brands of the United States
2010s fashion
Companies based in Los Angeles
Jennifer Lopez