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Book SynopsisA 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 Journal
Riveting' Financial Times
The 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.<
