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Department stores

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Jeanette Jarnow interview, 1994 December 20, 1994 December 20

 Item
Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.15
Scope and Contents Jeannette Jarnow, former Chair of the Fashion Buying and Merchandising Department (FBM), discusses the small and intimate nature of FIT when she joined in 1956. She discusses the founding of the school by Morris Haft, Virginia Pope, and a handful of fashion industry insiders. She then describes the birth of the FBM department thanks to an endowment by Bergdorf Goodman as well as close relationships with Lord & Taylor, Abraham and Strauss, and Bloomingdale's. Jarnow touches on influential...
Dates: 1994 December 20

Retail Stores - Abraham & Straus, 1978-1989, 1978-1989

 folder
Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.7.1.110
Scope and Contents

Photocopied, pasted, and laminated articles concerning the retail store Abraham & Straus, including articles from Chain Store Age and Crain's New York Business.

Dates: 1978-1989