Footwear retailer Stuart Weitzman will open a 1,500 square foot store at West Edmonton Mall before the 2013/2014 holiday season. Weitzman is the latest upscale tenant to open in the mall. It will be the 10th Stuart Weitzman store in Canada.
The Stuart Weitzman store replaces footwear retailer SoftMoc on the second level of the mall’s ‘Phase III’. It will be located next to a new Tiffany & Co. (which we recently announced will open in the mall). West Edmonton Mall is also undergoing interior renovations that will see it become more upscale.
For those unfamiliar, Stuart Weitzman is an upscale American shoe designer/retailer which sells at Canadian retailers including Holt Renfrew and Browns Shoes. It also has nine Canadian stores: Four in Toronto, two in Montreal, two in Vancouver, and one in Calgary. Store locations can be found here.
Thank you to our source Katie Dadswell for providing the tip and photo for this article.
Stuart Weitzman is great, but I've found that while the store carries a few more styles, Holts remains better at size range. I find that it's easier to get size 4 1/2 or size 5 at Holts without going to trunk shows to pre-order (and trunk shows only show about 50 to 60% of the upcoming season). Stuart's online store is slightly better (though the number of styles is still lower than the US e-store). The boutique on Madison Avenue in New York, however, has the MOST sizes and styles, in my experience.