History Of New York’s Henri Bendel Department Stores

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Louisiana-born businessman Henri Bendel moved to New York City and became famous for dressing Manhattan’s elite out of his Greenwich Village millinery in the late 1800s (he’s even

Henri Bendel, founder of one of the greatest department stores, is captured in many interesting stories and the history of this establishment. The book is a good size and

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Among the extinct department stores of Manhattan, a mystique surrounds the names of a few: Bonwit Teller, Lord & Taylor, Henri Bendel. Bonwit Teller, established in 1895,

Established in 1895 as a millinery shop on 9 th Street in the Greenwich Village, Henri Bendel, named after its founder, developed an identity as a store with refined sense of fashion.[1] After

On Saturday, Henri Bendel, the department store whose brown and white stripes once defined the concept of the boutique as a carnival of gewgaws and glamour, will shut its doors for the last

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In 1960, Henri Bendel was still a single New York City department store, located at 10-12 West 57th Street. (The business was founded in 1896 by Mr. Bendel, a Louisiana-born

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Luxury retailer Henri Bendel will soon be history as parent company L Brands is set to shut all of Henri Bendel’s 23 stores, including its New York Fifth Avenue. flagship, come

At the end of the 19th century, Herman Bergdorf, a French immigrant to New York City, owned a tailoring shop on Fifth Avenue and 19th Street, specializing in fine tailored suits

As Satow tells it, the 20th-century department store — whether in New York City, San Francisco or Main Street USA — offered American women more than shopping.

When magazine writer and editor Tim Allis learned that a biography had never been published about Henri Bendel, the store’s founder and retail impresario, he thought “What an interesting

In 1846, the merchant A.T. Stewart founded the Marble Palace in New York City, considered one of America’s first department stores. He became the country’s third-richest man after William

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By this time, Henri Bendel had died, but his namesake store remained a major force in the New York fashion world. In 1946, the store was one of the first to view and buy from the new French

The store was essentially founded in 1895, when Henri Bendel moved to New York City from Lafayette, La., and began making hats for the city’s elite, but it wasn’t

Henri Bendel BBB has transformed two 19th century mansions into a retail stage for one of Manhattan’s famed luxury department stores, preserving and celebrating their original

There’s less known, however, about Henri Bendel, the man who started with a hat shop in Greenwich Village in 1896 before going on to redefine New York fashion retail on

In 1965, Joseph Pilates opened a pilates studio inside the famous, cutting edge Henri Bendel Department store in New York City. It was located next to the salon on the top

Bendel’s new store changed the way women shopped as he bagged a licence to copy Paris couture, thus bringing to New York designs by Chanel, Lanvin and other names to

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Born in Lafayette, Louisiana in 1868, Henri Bendel had his sights set on something big. He was an innovator with cutting-edge ideas for women’s fashion, so he left his home state to move to New York. There he worked as a

The history of Bendel’s includes the creation of the Bendel Girl. In addition the hit TV show Gossip Girl featured the department store heavily. Bendel closing will leave a physical

Bendel was the very first retailer to sell Coco Chanel in the U.S., the first to offer in-store services like makeovers and fashion shows. The store owes its origins to Louisiana

Bonwit Teller & Co. was an American luxury department store in New York City, founded by Paul Bonwit in 1895 at Sixth Avenue and 18th Street, and later a chain of department stores. In

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But not even that long ago, New York was a department-store town. Holiday shopping meant a trip uptown to Bloomingdale’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, or Bergdorf Goodman,

In his new book, Henri Bendel, and the Worlds He Fashioned, Tim Allis tells this extraordinary American story. Bendel’s family owned a dry goods store in sleepy Lafayette. It

He opened his New York City hat shop in 1896. By the 1910s, he was producing high quality custom made clothing, and was also a major importer of French designs. He was one of the

By 2009, Leslie Wexner of The Limited and Victoria’s Secret fame owned Bendel’s, and tried to revive the Friday Morning Lineup as a twice-yearly affair, attempting a poor

Henri Bendel, Inc. (pronounced BEN-del), established in 1895, [3] was a women’s department store based in New York City which in its later history sold women’s handbags, jewelry, luxury

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