Amazon announced on Thursday that it will be opening Amazon Style, its first-ever in-person store inside a mall, which will be dedicated to fashion and clothing.
The store opening at Americana at Brand, a mall in Glendale, California, is expected to take on a new concept of clothing shopping by allowing customers to personalize their experience virtually. Amazon is calling it an “elevated” shopping experience.
“Amazon Style completely reimagines what’s possible in the fitting room, turning it into a personalized space where customers can continue to shop a seemingly endless closet of great styles. When a shopper enters their fitting room, they will find the items they requested while browsing the store, plus additional options chosen based on their preferences,” said Simona Vasen, managing director of Amazon Style in a release.
Amazon Style is new and all about ✨you✨
Our first-ever physical apparel store reimagines the shopping experience featuring advanced machine learning to make it easier than ever for you to find clothes you love. https://t.co/qDvizNDquA pic.twitter.com/j1CRJOXG2f
— Amazon (@amazon) January 20, 2022
The store will sell women’s and men’s clothing, along with shoes and accessories. Only display items will be out for shoppers to see, with all other merchandise in a back room that can be brought out by request.
When shopping at Amazon Style, customers will be able to choose their clothing through the Amazon shopping app and send it directly to a fitting room or check-out counter. All items will also have a scannable QR code that will bring up available sizes, colors and customer ratings.
“Amazon Style combines Amazon’s love of fashion with innovative technology and world-class operations to help customers find looks they’ll love,” Vasen added.
The Amazon Style store will be similar in size to Kohls, at about 30,000 square feet, but will be considerably smaller than the size of other larger department stores.
Amazon has recently been attempting to make more of a mark in the fashion and clothing industry. There now is a variety of clothing options on its app, along with an online shop called Luxury stores that was launched in September of 2020.
Some took to Twitter to touch on the news.
I think the fact that it even occurred to me to be worried that Amazon might consider using some sort of smart camera in its fitting rooms says a lot. (There is no camera, obvioiusly.)https://t.co/lMbhmqBwsu
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) January 20, 2022
Amazon is opening a clothing store. Like, IRL. Full circle?⭕️ https://t.co/7tGrveW4Rp
— Adela Suliman (@Adela_Suliman) January 20, 2022
Amazon opening new apparel store, Amazon Style, with fitting rooms https://t.co/gGBjX4c3oT
Could you imagine that? My luck Alexa would tell me everything looked terrible _. Hard pass.
— Savedandstillgrowing (@Savedandstillg1) January 20, 2022
Amazon opening new apparel store, Amazon Style, with fitting rooms https://t.co/gGBjX4c3oT
Could you imagine that? My luck Alexa would tell me everything looked terrible _. Hard pass.
— Savedandstillgrowing (@Savedandstillg1) January 20, 2022