Today, the Levi’s® brand launches a new online feature on levi.com, and available through Facebook Messenger – a ‘Virtual Stylist,’ which takes all the wisdom of our in-store style experts and puts it at consumers’ fingertips 24 hours a day.
As the global leader in jeanswear, we’re applying our unmatched fit and style expertise to the online shopping experience. Virtual Stylist is built by combining that expertise with artificial intelligence. Users are able to receive fashion advice – available throughout the site – in a conversational tone via their mobile device or laptop, creating a more personalized, easy shopping experience wherever and whenever they want it.
The Levi’s Virtual Stylist is your personal shopping assistant on Levi.com. You’re always one click away from personalized style and size recommendations.
Our chatbot goes beyond algorithms to incorporate the real-life training that Levi’s® in-store stylists receive. Drawing on decades of experience helping consumers find the right fit, the Virtual Stylist poses questions like, “How would you like your jeans to fit through your hips and thighs?” to explore shoppers’ preferences on leg shape, rise and stretch. It then integrates TrueFit sizing information to deliver tailored recommendations.
Not in front of that laptop? You can chat with the Virtual Stylist using Facebook Messenger when you’re shopping on the go. Need another opinion? Consumers will be able to crowd-source their shopping decisions using a “Share” function that lets them send product options to their friends who can vote for their favorites and comment on the products.
Want a 2nd (or 10th) opinion on those Levi’s? Easily share products with your friends and receive instant feedback, all through Facebook Messenger.
Perhaps you’re unclear on how to best style those new 501® Skinny jeans? The “See It Styled” function uses image recognition technology to bring up a gallery of user-generated photos, allowing shoppers to see how other consumers are wearing their Levi’s® jeans.
Just a click to get instant style inspiration. Browse through images and see how people are Living in Levi’s ® across the world.
This innovative approach is part of Levi Strauss & Co.’s larger push to invest in its ecommerce business and in new technologies that will improve the consumer shopping experience and, ultimately, drive online sales.
“We are on the leading edge of a challenge that all retail companies face today – how to create a seamless and personalized shopping experience for consumers, and new technologies like our Virtual Stylist are integral to that evolution at LS&Co.,” said Marc Rosen, executive vice president and president of global ecommerce at LS&Co. “No matter where the consumer chooses to shop, we want to give them a personalized experience that leverages our expertise in fit and style to address the biggest challenge of finding the pair of perfect-fitting jeans.”
Our Virtual Stylist—with the chatbot powered by mode.ai and personalized fit data from True Fit—is a noteworthy milestone in that journey and a great example of the company’s commitment to employing new technologies in ways that help bring our iconic brands to life online.
