Status Updates From When Women Ran Fifth Avenue...

Basically small business auctions to make it into the exclusive Henri Bendel displays! So fun!

DJT mention and it’s so typical 😠 going back on his word, taking prime space to build something ugly, tearing down art and an iconic feature/s

Everything truly has a history. And this mini lesson is mannequins, an artist named Adel Rootstein, Twiggy, and other forms of clothing display.

“If Hortense rejected being labeled a business-woman, and Dorothy aped a male CEO, Geraldine was breaking into something altogether modern… embodied this fresh perspective, and Bendel, under her watch, was become a department store that reflected this changing narrative”

The silly discounters (think Walmart, Kmart) led to the fall of the classic, architectural department stores with poised female employees and brought barren displays, cheaper items, and chauvinistic attitudes.