(Searching for “Charlotte Rampling,” for example, only brings up 30 images of the actress.) Olsen says she’s also tried Niice, which “looks like Jux, but has a better search engine.” The ShopLook homepage. You can perform web searches for images within the app, but it doesn’t surface very many options. Olsen has also been testing out Jux, another basic mood board app that lets you upload images to a simple square grid.
Villoid also doesn’t let users make freestyle boards you have a variety of grid formats to choose from, but you can’t stray from them. Line Olsen, a longtime Polyvore user from Norway, has tested out Villoid (you know, the startup Alexa Chung helped launch) but notes that the mood board creation tool on its app is missing beauty and home goods. Last week, we put out a call to former Polyvore users to see whether they had found new platforms that suited their needs, and roughly two dozen people wrote in with suggestions and comments. The uses of Polyvore were many: Shoppers hunted for new brands, fiction writers mapped out their characters’ wardrobes, and teens made their quasi-ironic mood boards for Instagram. Founded in 2007, Polyvore gave users the tools to create collages of clothing, beauty, and home products, and in doing so, created a community of people getting creative and following each others’ work. You can also see what we’re up to by signing up here.Įarlier this month, Polyvore was acquired by Ssense, a Montreal-based online retailer, and shut down - a decision that Ssense confirmed was final last week. The archives will remain available here for new stories, head over to Vox.com, where our staff is covering consumer culture for The Goods by Vox. Thank you to everyone who read our work over the years.
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