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.

Macy's has optioned the NYT best-selling novel When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion to develop into a fictionalized TV series. The book by journalist ...

The opening of Julie Satow’s latest book, When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion, opens with a tantalizing, little-known, but thematically familiar true ...

In “When Women Ran Fifth Avenue,” Julie Satow offers a luxurious tour of the golden age of American consumerism.

In order to understand changes in women's dress during the Archaic Period in Greece (8th century - 480 B.C.E.) we must look first at trends immediately preceding this period. In the Bronze Age ...

Macy’s has optioned the NYT best-selling book When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion to develop into a fictionalized TV series.

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion. By Julie Satow. Doubleday. 320 pages. We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site.

In the early decades of the 20th century, small family stores and company catalogs provided what women wanted, while the wealthy and fashion-conscious had their own private, European couturiers.

In Julie Satow’s latest book, When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion, three women are spotlighted for their profound impact on the 20th-century fashion ...

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