An exhibition at Paris’s City of Architecture and Heritage museum follows the development and iconography of department stores from the 19th century to today. Skip to Main Content.

THE UK’s most iconic department store plots its first shops outside London after 318 years in business. The upmarket store ...

She makes her argument largely through the stories of three women, Hortense Odlum, Dorothy Shaver and Geraldine Stutz, who occupied some of the top jobs in Fifth Avenue’s leading department stores.

Because many people back in the late 19th and early 20th century made their own clothing from magazine patterns, rather than purchasing from stores. These brands had an incentive to be great in ...

In 1916, Marjorie Merriweather Post, heir to the Postum cereal fortune, moved into her new home, a five-story, 54-room mansion at the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street.. This was ...