When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
By (Author) Julie Satow
Canelo
August Books
2nd September 2025
8th May 2025
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Fashion and textile design
Biography: business and industry
Physical Properties
Paperback
384
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 23mm
Description
A New York Times Bestseller
A Cosmopolitan Best Nonfiction Book of 2024
Compulsively readable: I found myself dashing through it like a novel The Wall Street JournalRiveting Financial TimesThe New York Times bestselling story of the golden age of luxury department stores, and the trailblazing women who ran them.The twentieth century department store: a wonderland of consumption where every wish could be met under one roof. Dropping off the baby at nursery; an afternoon tea; a stroll through the latest fashions. A wedding (or funeral) could be planned. A Bengal Tiger cub could be purchased.
Inside these towering price-tag palaces, anything was possible. They were beacons of modernity, and within this atmosphere of glamour and luxury, women dominated. Men may have owned the buildings, but inside women ruled.
Julie Satow draws back the curtain on three female visionaries who took great risks, forging new paths for the women who followed in their footsteps.
If you liked Mad Men then youll love When Women Ran Fifth Avenue #1 New York Times bestselling author Kate Andersen Brower, author The Residence and First Women
Author Bio
Julie Satow is the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion and The Plaza: The Secret Life of Americas Most Famous Hotel. A regular contributor to the New York Times, her work has also appeared on National Public Radio, the Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek.
