In When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion, award-winning journalist and author of the widely acclaimed 2019 book, The Plaza, Julie Satow draws on her expert knowledge of New York City history and culture to whisk readers back to a bygone era of innovation and glitz. Satow chronicles the rise of the department store through dazzling portraits of three female powerhouses who broke barriers and created new and evolving possibilities for working women. 

This his­to­ry of Amer­i­can fash­ion and the depart­ment store is inex­tri­ca­ble from Jew­ish his­to­ry, from the Jew­ish immi­grants who worked in New York’s Gar­ment Dis­trict to influ­en­tial design­ers and cre­ators like Hat­tie Carnegie and Lena Him­mel­stein (bet­ter known as the cre­ator of Lane Bryant). These sto­ries are inter­wo­ven through­out Satow’s glit­ter­ing account of a bygone era of inno­va­tion and glamour. 

A native New Yorker, Julie Satow is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Plaza, A New York Times Editors’ Choice and NPR Favorite Book of 2019. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times, and her work has also appeared on National Public Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Travel + Leisure, and elsewhere. For more information visit www.juliesatow.com. 

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