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Nowness

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Industry
  
Media

Owner
  
LVMH

Founded
  
February, 2010

Website
  
www.nowness.com

Headquarters
  
New York, NY, United States

Nowness (stylized NOWNESS) is an interactive luxury lifestyle website launched in 2010 and is a brand of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE. Every day, the Nowness website presents a single article about art, fashion, travel, culture, design, film, music, sport or gastronomy. Nowness articles include photography slideshows, films, audio clips, interactive projects and interviews.

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History

Nowness launched in 2010. Its founder and chief creative executive is Jefferson Hack. Since its conception, Nowness has expanded into a global platform launching a Chinese language version of the website in 2012, and introducing subtitles in 2013 with videos available in up to 10 languages including English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian. In 2014, Nowness as a video channel.

Awards

  • 2010 CLIO Award for Best Interactive Website
  • 2011 Webby Award: Best Fashion Website
  • 2011 WWD Japan Fashion Web Grand Prix Award
  • 2013 Lovie Award: Best Interactive Video (Ballroom Battle)
  • 2013 Lovie Award for Best Lifestyle Website
  • 2014 Berlin Fashion Film Festival: Best Visual Effects (for shoppable fashion short, Mine All Mine)
  • 2014 Webby Award: Best Cultural Website
  • References

    Nowness Wikipedia