TASTEMAKERS: THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN FASHION – NONFICTION

In Empresses of Seventh Avenue: World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion, fashion journalist and historian NANCY MACDONELL chronicles how the Nazi invasion of France in 1940 cut the capital of fashion from the rest of the world and opened the doors to the rise of the nearly $500 billion American fashion industry. JULIE SATOW’s When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion examines the 20th-century American department store, palaces of consumption. But while men owned the buildings, inside, women ruled – none more than Hortense Odlum of Bonwit Teller, Dorothy Shaver of Lord & Taylor, and Geraldine Stutz of Henri Bendel. Moderated by author and journalist RACHEL FELDER.

PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE MIAMI FASHION INSTITUTE AT MDC.

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Buy Empresses of Seventh Avenue: World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion – Macdonell

Buy When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion – Satow

Buy Red Lipstick: An Ode to a Beauty Icon – Felder