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This week the largest Bloomingdale's store outside New York opened in San Francisco.

The store with six different floors and levels opened as the centrepiece of the new £225m Westfield San Francisco shopping and entertainment centre.

Bloomingdale's hopes the new store will continue the work started in the 1860s when Lyman and Joseph Bloomingdale opened their first shop with the aim to bring European fashion to New York, but also spreading a little Big Apple chic to the west coast.

Bloomingdale's fashion director Stephanie Solomon told the San Francisco Chronicle: 'We've pulled out all the stops for San Francisco. We're bringing our 59th Street sensibility here.

'We think San Francisco is a fashion town, and we're going to try out some new things here.'

Michael Gould, Chairman of Bloomingdale's, added: 'The opportunity to open a store in a city as beautiful and sophisticated as San Francisco is an enormously exciting venture for us.

'We believe we have designed a store that will provide the ultimate shopping experience for the Bay Area.'

Westfield San Francisco Center offers more than 170 speciality stores and exclusive boutiques - including Abercrombie, Banana Republic, Karen Miller, the Metropolitan Museum of Art store and Victoria's Secret - as well as cinemas, restaurants and theatres.


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