"When Women Ran Fifth Avenue
Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion"
Join us for a virtual book talk with author
Julie Satow
Sunday, January 19 | 2PM
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From the Publisher
In When Women Ran Fifth Avenue, award-winning journalist and author of The Plaza Julie Satow chronicles the rise of the department store through dazzling portraits of three visionarywomen who took great risks, forging new paths for the women who followed in their footsteps. This stylishaccount, rich with personal drama and trade secrets, captures the department store in all its glitz, decadence, and fun, and showcases the women who made that beautifully curated world go round.
This history of American fashion and the department store is inextricable from Jewish history, from theJewish immigrants who worked in New York’s Garment District to influential designers and creators likeHattie Carnegie and Lena Himmelstein (better known as the creator of Lane Bryant). These stories areinterwoven throughout Satow’s glittering account of a bygone era of innovation and glamour.