The rise and fall of Lord & Taylor Lord & Taylor first opened in New York City as a dry goods store in 1826, relocating to ...

The area developed into the luxury shopping district we know today with the introduction of the Lord & Taylor Building in 1914. Later, Saks Fifth Avenue opened in 1924 and Bergdorf Goodman in 1928.

Satow’s book, “When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion,” features executives like Dorothy Shaver, a chief merchant at Lord & Taylor in the mid-20th ...

Macy’s has optioned the NYT best-selling book When Women Ran Fifth Avenue ... from Dorothy Shaver at Lord & Taylor to Hortense Odlum at Bonwit Teller and Geraldine Stutz at Henri Bendel.