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Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge
Lindy Woodhead
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Description for Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge
Paperback. In 1909 London's first dedicated department store built from scratch opened in a glorious burst of publicity. In his eponymous store Selfridge created nothing less than 'the theatre of retail'. This book tells the story of a revolution in shopping and the rise and fall of a retail prince. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGB; KNPR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 291.
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 façade was American retail genius Harry Gordon Selfridge: maverick businessman, risk-taker, dandy and one of the greatest showmen the retail world has ever known. His talents were to create the seduction of shopping, and as his success and fame grew, so did his glittering lifestyle: mansions, yachts, gambling, racehorses - and mistresses. From the glamour of Edwardian England, through the turmoil of the Great War and the heady excesses of the 1920s and beyond, Selfridges Department Store was 'a theatre with the curtain going up at 9 o'clock each morning'. Mr Selfridge reveals the captivating story of the rise and fall of the man who revolutionised the way we shop. 'Lively and entertaining' Sunday Telegraph 'Will change your view of shopping forever' Vogue 'Harry Selfridge revolutionised the way we shop ... fascinating' Daily Mail
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Profile Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861971692
SKU
V9781861971692
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Lindy Woodhead
Lindy Woodhead worked in international fashion public relations for over twenty-five years. During the late 1980s she spent two years as the first woman on the board of directors of Harvey Nichols. Lindy retired from fashion in 2000 to concentrate on writing. Her first book, War Paint (Virago), a biography of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, was published in 2003. She is a regular contributor to The Spectator and The Times Saturday Magazine. A Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts, she is married with two sons and lives in southwest London and southwest France.
Reviews for Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge
In this energetic and wonderfully detailed biography, Lindy Woodhead ... provides an enthralling description of fashion, politics, music and dance, the arts, the sciences advertising and the use of the media, during the decades before the Second war.
Evening Standard
A man ahead of his time, an accelerator of change, and he deserves to be remembered as the man who put the fun on to the shop floor and the sex appeal in to shopping.
Sunday Express
Harry Selfridge revolutionised the way we shop...fascinating.
Daily Mail
A fascinating biographical, as well as sociological, study
Independent on Sunday
Lively... conveys the excitement of changes in fashion and technology in the late Edwardian era
Sunday Telegraph
This biography - of Selfridge, of the early 20th century and of the legacy of consumerism they helped to create - serves as a fitting tribute as it approaches its 100th anniversary
Katy Guest
Independent
Fascinating
Jackie McGlone
Scotsman
A rich social history of a time of great change
Spectator Business
Evening Standard
A man ahead of his time, an accelerator of change, and he deserves to be remembered as the man who put the fun on to the shop floor and the sex appeal in to shopping.
Sunday Express
Harry Selfridge revolutionised the way we shop...fascinating.
Daily Mail
A fascinating biographical, as well as sociological, study
Independent on Sunday
Lively... conveys the excitement of changes in fashion and technology in the late Edwardian era
Sunday Telegraph
This biography - of Selfridge, of the early 20th century and of the legacy of consumerism they helped to create - serves as a fitting tribute as it approaches its 100th anniversary
Katy Guest
Independent
Fascinating
Jackie McGlone
Scotsman
A rich social history of a time of great change
Spectator Business