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☆ The women behind the glitz and glamour of New York’s fabled department stores
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Cat Woods | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Before the nationwide influx of suburban malls and the convenience of online shopping, there was a golden age of American department stores. Satow’s evocation of this historic age is timely, with the death knell for many US department stores well and truly ringing in our ears. Sally Moss“When department stores originally opened, (they represented) one of the rare opportunities for women to congregate together in public,” Satow told CNN. Her motivation was to make department stores enticing — and accessible — for women of all means.) Read: “The Dallergut Dream Department Store” (2024)A bestseller in Korea, the debut novel (and first of a two-book series) from author Miye Lee weaves a fantastical narrative around, as its title suggests, a department store selling consumers’ perfect dreams.

Persons: strategized, Hortense Odlum, Bonwit Teller, Dorothy Shaver, Taylor, Geraldine Stutz, Henri Bendel, Julie Satow’s, Odlum, Shaver, Stutz, Sally Moss “, ” Satow, “ Dorothy Shaver, …, ’, ” Doubleday, —, Elizabeth Arden, Helena Rubinstein, “ Hortense Odlum, Jill Krementz “, “, ”, Madeleine St, Goode, Kim Cattrall, Jonathan, Andrew McCarthy, Estelle Getty’s, Claire Timkin, Hollywood Montrose, Miye Lee, Miss Jones ”, John P, Merrick, Charles Coburn, Mary Jones, Jean Arthur, Helena Rubinstein ”, Lindy Woodhead, mindedly Organizations: CNN, puma, Harrods, Rive, TIME, Fashion Group, Fashion, Fashion Industry Hall of Fame, New, & $ Locations: America, Bonwit, Europe, London, Le Bon, Paris, New York, TikTok, Sydney, Australia, Korea

☆ They Revolutionized Shopping, With Tea Sandwiches on the Side
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Alexandra Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WHEN WOMEN RAN FIFTH AVENUE: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion, by Julie SatowIn 1980, Donald J. Trump made the front page of The New York Times after assaulting a pair of scantily clad women at a Fifth Avenue department store. The sculptures’ significance was allegorical as well as architectural: Department stores, though erected mostly by men, have always been feminine domains. “The Ladies’ Paradise” is the English title of Émile Zola’s 1883 novel, set at a store modeled after Le Bon Marché, still standing in Paris despite the ravages of e-commerce. Patricia Highsmith framed her 1952 lesbian romance “The Price of Salt” at the fictional Frankenberg’s, based on Bloomingdale’s. Now Julie Satow has written a group biography of the department-store doyennes who ran the show — and these places in their heyday really were a form of theater — for the male founders and owners whose names adorned the facades.

Persons: Julie Satow, Donald J, Trump, Bonwit Teller, Émile, Le Bon Marché, Patricia Highsmith Organizations: WOMEN, New York Times, Trump Tower, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department Locations: Paris

☆ I started making candles from a humble craft kit and grew it into a million-dollar business. Here are the steps I took to go from Etsy to Nordstrom.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Lola Christina Alao | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Tamara Mayne started making candles as gifts for her family with a store-bought candlemaking kit. I thought: Why not try and make some extra cash from selling candles on the side? I also started selling on Scoutmob — a now defunct website where buyers could discover independent makers, while still selling on Etsy and Squarespace. After a few weeks of just selling candles, I decided to pick up some freelance art-directing work to cover the bills. Our candles cost between $28 and $38 because of our increased overhead, when I first started selling them I was charging only $16.

☆ A TALK WITH MILAN KUNDERA
▼ + stars: | 1985-05-19 | by ( Olga Carlisle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The nature of his achievement may explain in part why Kundera is so fiercely protective of his privacy. Warned by mutual friends that the Soviet subjugation of his country had made Kundera mistrustful of Russians - all Russians - I felt I should mention my Russian origin. MILAN KUNDERA AND HIS WIFE, VERA, LIVE ON ONE of the quiet sidestreets of Montparnasse; their small apartment is a remodeled garret with a view of dove-gray Parisian roofs. Some are by Czechoslovak artists; the others are by Kundera himself - multicolored outsized heads and long-fingered hands, like Kundera's own. Vera Kundera is a pretty brunette, hair cut short, slender in blue jeans.

Persons: Philip Roth, Kundera, I'm, Leonid Andreyev, VERA, garret, Vera Kundera, Vera Organizations: MILAN Locations: Paris, San Francisco, Montparnasse, Czechoslovak, Bon Marche

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