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The men who created the first department stores made vast fortunes, but no one grasped the concept of consumption as a sensual female entertainment better than the maverick American retailer Harry Gordon Selfridge. This book tells the story of a revolution in shopping and the ri…
-- The true story that inspired the Masterpiece series on PBS "Enthralling ... (an) energetic and wonderfully detailed biography."?London Evening Standard? "Will change your view of shopping forever."?Vogue From the Trade Paperback edition
In 1909, the largest department store in London's West End, designed and built from scratch, opened in Oxford Street in a glorious burst of publicity. The mastermind behind the facade was American retail genius Harry Gordon Selfridge: maverick businessman, risk-taker, dandy and …
"When the visionary American retailer Harry Gordon Selfridge, rightfully known as 'the showman of shopping', moved from Chicago to open his eponymous store in Oxford Street, he brought with him his heartfelt belief in the sex appeal of shopping." "In the process Selfridge became…