The men who created the first department stores - what Zola called 'great cathedrals of shopping' - made vast fortunes, but no one understood consumption as a sensual female entertainment better than the maverick American retailer Harry Gordon Selfridge.In 1909 London's first dedicated department store built from scratch opened in a glorious burst of publicity, spearheaded by the largest advertising campaign ever mounted in the British press. In his eponymous store Selfridge created nothing less than 'the theatre of retail'. His personal life was just as flamboyant, one of mistresses and...
The men who created the first department stores - what Zola called 'great cathedrals of shopping' - made vast fortunes, but no one understood consumpt...
If you lived at Downton Abbey, you shopped at Selfridge s. Harry Gordon Selfridge was a charismatic American who, in twenty-five years working at Marshall Field s in Chicago, rose from lowly stockboy to a partner in the business which his visionary skills had helped to create. At the turn of the twentieth century he brought his own American dream to London s Oxford Street where, in 1909, with a massive burst of publicity, Harry opened Selfridge s, England s first truly modern built-for-purpose department store. Designed to promote shopping as a sensual and pleasurable experience,...
If you lived at Downton Abbey, you shopped at Selfridge s. Harry Gordon Selfridge was a charismatic American who, in twenty-five years work...
Now a Tony-nominated Broadway musical playing at the Nederlander Theatre starring two-time Tony Award winners Patti LuPone (Evita, Gypsy) as Helena Rubinstein and Christine Ebersole (42nd Street, Grey Gardens) as Elizabeth Arden.
A fascinating dual biography of the women who founded today's beauty industry
They were both born in the nineteenth century in humble circumstances--Helena Rubinstein in an orthodox Jewish household in Krakow, Poland, Elizabeth Arden on a farm outside Toronto. But by the 1930s, they were bitter rivals in New York,...
Now a Tony-nominated Broadway musical playing at the Nederlander Theatre starring two-time Tony Award winners Patti LuPone (Evita, Gyp...
Now a Tony-nominated Broadway musical playing at the Nederlander Theatre starring two-time Tony Award winners Patti LuPone (Evita, Gypsy) as Helena Rubinstein and Christine Ebersole (42nd Street, Grey Gardens) as Elizabeth Arden.
A fascinating dual biography of the women who founded today's beauty industry
They were both born in the nineteenth century in humble circumstances--Helena Rubinstein in an orthodox Jewish household in Krakow, Poland, Elizabeth Arden on a farm outside Toronto. But by the 1930s, they were bitter rivals in New York,...
Now a Tony-nominated Broadway musical playing at the Nederlander Theatre starring two-time Tony Award winners Patti LuPone (Evita, Gyp...
