Myntra Big Fashion Festival starts on October 7; 23 lakh products available across fashion, beauty and lifestyle

Bhubaneswar: Myntra has announced the arrival of Big Fashion Festival,  its biggest festive fashion extravaganza. With over 23 lakh styles from over 6000 brands, the fourth edition of the Myntra BFF offers one of the biggest assortment of selections across fashion, beauty and lifestyle ever and expects over 8 million customers to shop during the festive carnival. The platform’s marquee annual festive shopping bonanza will commence on the 7 of October. Over 5 lakh new styles have been added from brands that are popular among non-metro customers. To meet the expected surge in traffic and provide a smooth and seamless shopping journey to every shopper coming to the platform, Myntra has scaled its systems to handle ~1 million concurrent users at peak. This year, the platform will also provide access to constructs that are designed to showcase festive-oriented categories like Showstoppers, BFF Specials and Rewards.

The platform has unique hero collections for ‘BFF Specials’ along with over 150 new launches, cross-brand collaborations and interesting CelebXBrand crossovers. In addition to fashion and  beauty, some of the emerging categories geared to witness rising demandthis festive season include home products, luggage, travel and accessories, footwear, and handbags. 

This BFF will see over 1.6 lakh styles and 50 new made-in-India D2Cbrands which arecelebrated under the Myntra Rising STARS bannerandwill offer a differentiated selection, with unique styles for both men and women across fashion, footwear, accessories and home. With the growing popularity and love for the catalog, some leading brands like Outcast, Nap Chief, BeYours and Veshti Company will showcase irresistible value-offers.

The festive event provides access to unprecedented value propositions by brands, along with ingenious customer engagement propositions like the Curtain Raiser deals, Grand Opening Hours, Brand Mania and limited-time deal constructs. Customers can look forward to  Myntra Revolutionary Price which includes 10% bank offers in addition to attractive value offers. During the event, customers will also have access to an additional 15% off on using Myntra’s co-branded credit card in association with Kotak Mahindra Bank, to unlock more value on their festive purchases. Additionally, the shoppers can avail payment offers through partners like ICICI, Kotak, Paytm and Cred. This BFF, customers shopping above a certain amount, will be able to avail exciting rewards which may include gold coins, trolleys and backpacks, etc.

Talking about the Big Fashion Festival, Nandita Sinha, CEO, Myntra, said, “As the nation earnestly awaits the festive season, at Myntra, we are geared to roll out our biggest edition of the ‘Big Fashion Festival’. This is an opportunity for the industry to gain momentum where brands are able to infuse newness with their offerings while also strengthening their base of shoppers. This is also an opportunity for our ecosystem partners, including big and small brands, Kirana partners and artisans to grow further.”

As part of the festive hiring ramp-up, Myntra has increased its women hiring, taking it to 21% while  creating employment opportunities for women from economically disadvantaged backgrounds and has extended additional income opportunities. The hiring spans rural locations and villages in states like Haryana, Telangana, West Bengal, and Karnataka. In addition to the supply chain, of the total hires in the contact center this festive season, 45% will be women hires. Myntra’s robust supply chain network, consisting of 17,000 MENSA (Myntra Extended Network for Service Augmentation), the platform’s neighborhoodKirana store partners, will play a pivotal role in fulfilling festive orders across the country.