Amazon’s Shopbop Unveils Content-Focused Redesign August 31, 2012 by Lauren Indvik 3 Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share Ads by Google Atlanta Fashion School - Enroll at an Atlanta Fashion School & Turn Your Talent into Much More! ArtSchoolAtlanta.com Shopbop, an Amazon-owned retail site for upscale and contemporary women’s fashion, took the wraps off a redesign earlier this week. Similar to Kate Spade’s site makeover last year and Oscar de la Renta’s earlier this month, Shopbop’s new site places a greater emphasis on editorial content. The company’s lookbooks and features, of which it produces several each week, are displayed front and center on a cleaned-up landing page. Product images are 60% larger and shoppers can now also watch videos of products on models for a more comprehensive view. Shopbop’s editorial team now has about five full-time staffers, including fashion director Treena Lombardo, who was poached from Allure magazine earlier this month. As part of the promotions for the new site, Shopbop will release a video featuring designers Rachel Zoe and Stacey Bendet of Alice + Olivia, as well as style bloggers Leandra Medine of Men Repeller and Atlantic-Pacific‘s Blair Eadie, among others, on Sept. 5. The video will be accompanied by a browser-based game where players can “launch” one of the featured designers, stylists or bloggers towards Shopbox boxes in a variety of settings. It’s a little odd, but also cute and designed to be humorous (which, for fashion brands, is a good thing). SEE ALSO: ‘Refinery 29′ Makes Big Online Commerce Push Shopbop carries 500 brands and attracts nearly 10 million unique visitors per month. It’s run as an independent company under Amazon. Amazon’s other fashion properties include daily deals site and Gilt competitor MyHabit.com, which expanded into luxury designer and plus-size womenswear earlier this year, as well as footwear retail sites Zappos.com and Endless.com. It acquired Shopbop in 2006.

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August 31, 2012 by Lauren Indvik3

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Shopbop, an Amazon-owned retail site for upscale and contemporary women’s fashion, took the wraps off a redesign earlier this week.

Similar to Kate Spade’s site makeover last year and Oscar de la Renta’s earlier this month, Shopbop’s new site places a greater emphasis on editorial content. The company’s lookbooks and features, of which it produces several each week, are displayed front and center on a cleaned-up landing page. Product images are 60% larger and shoppers can now also watch videos of products on models for a more comprehensive view.

Shopbop’s editorial team now has about five full-time staffers, including fashion director Treena Lombardo, who was poached from Allure magazine earlier this month.

As part of the promotions for the new site, Shopbop will release a video featuring designers Rachel Zoe and Stacey Bendet of Alice + Olivia, as well as style bloggers Leandra Medine of Men Repeller and Atlantic-Pacific‘s Blair Eadie, among others, on Sept. 5. The video will be accompanied by a browser-based game where players can “launch” one of the featured designers, stylists or bloggers towards Shopbox boxes in a variety of settings. It’s a little odd, but also cute and designed to be humorous (which, for fashion brands, is a good thing).

SEE ALSO: ‘Refinery 29′ Makes Big Online Commerce Push

Shopbop carries 500 brands and attracts nearly 10 million unique visitors per month. It’s run as an independent company under Amazon. Amazon’s other fashion properties include daily deals site and Gilt competitorMyHabit.com, which expanded into luxury designer and plus-size womenswear earlier this year, as well as footwear retail sites Zappos.com and Endless.com. It acquired Shopbop in 2006.