Amazon, Fashion, Brooklyn studio opening

Amazon woos fashion industry as studio opens - Times Leader: " . . . Fashion is one of those emerging businesses at Amazon that has Bezos’ attention. While Amazon has sold apparel, shoes and accessories for years, the company has intensified its focus on the category in the past few years. In addition to the apparel site on Amazon.com, the company owns the flash-sale site MyHabit.com, shoe-seller Zappos.com and the fashionista site ShopBop.com. Already, Amazon has 35 million active customers shopping for clothes, making the profitable, multibillion-dollar-a-year business the company’s fastest-growing category, said Amazon Fashion president Cathy Beaudoin. And Amazon’s ambitions for the apparel business are as vast as the inside of the new photo studio. “We want to be a great department store, like Bloomingdales, Nordstrom and Saks,” Beaudoin said. “But what we have that they don’t have is unlimited shelf space.”. . . "

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