Fashion Island

Fashion Island

Fashion Island Mall
Location	401 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, California, 92660
Opening date	1967
Management	The Irvine Company
Owner	The Irvine Company
Architect	William Pereira (1967) Welton Becket (1967) Jon Jerde (1988)
No. of anchor tenants	4
No. of floors	3
Website	[1]

Coordinates: 33°36′57.3″N 117°52′34.1″W / 33.615917°N 117.876139°W / 33.615917; -117.876139

Fashion Island is an open-air lifestyle center in Newport Beach, California. It is served by Orange County Transportation Authority bus routes 1, 55, 57, and 79. Fashion Island is owned by The Irvine Company.

Opened in 1967 as part of Newport Center, the center featured four department stores: Buffum's, J. W. Robinson's, The Broadway, and J.C. Penney. These four initial buildings were designed by architects William Pereira and Welton Becket, and were flanked by several smaller stores. The Spanish architectural theme which would later define the property was evident in the Robinson's building. In the late 1970s, Bullocks Wilshire (which later became I. Magnin) and Neiman Marcus were added. In the early 1980s, J.C. Penney moved out, and the building it occupied was reconstructed and reopened as "Atrium Court," which contained numerous smaller shops and a food court on the lower level.

The southwest entrance to Robinson's features a bronze wind-chime sculpture by mural artist Tom Van Sant, installed in September 1967, that was recorded by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest wind chime. (Possibly supplanted by Eureka Springs, Ark. in 2007.)