US-based luxury shoe company Taryn Rose International is to team up with online footwear retailer Zappos.com in a new e-commerce venture. The company will launch its products online and Zappos will handle its shipping and customer service issues.

Designer Dr Rose said, “By providing e-commerce we can also give our customers a much larger array of choices in style and colour that a brick and mortar store cannot possibly store.”

The company currently has four stores, in Beverly Hills, New York, Las Vegas and San Jose. It also launched a handbag collection in autumn 2006.