All posts tagged: BERGDORF GOODMAN

The Importance of Powering Up your Luxury Smarts (101)

Published by Pamela Thomas-Graham

I’m standing in front of the windows at Bergdorf’s and I’m transported. I do this every time I can when in New York. Inside, I have a lively exchange with a salesperson about the price of the most fantastic silk brocade coat I’ve ever seen (let’s be fair, no names). I look around and notice a woman angrily snatching at a dress on the rack, frowning and comparing it rather unfavorably to her great grandmother’s couture dress. Another is checking for size 0s and exuding body anxiety. A third woman with an edgy sequin T-shirt, sky blue hair, and a “strictly business” arrogance is clearly shopping as her boss’s surrogate abusive consumer. What is their problem? The whole place is GORGEOUS! Can’t say it isn’t luxurious. So why aren’t more customers and salespeople having a yumilicious time?

Lovely Luxury Fragrances You Have to Try Now

Published by Pamela Thomas-Graham

The people I hang out with and work with generally think of themselves as reasonably sophisticated. Yet nearly all of us, when asked about perfume, scent, fragrance, call it what you will, confessed to some intimidation at the prospect of buying it. To be honest, most of us are a little overwhelmed by the choices, and we don’t have time to educate ourselves. So we tend to stick with the same scent, or a rotating handful of scents, for a very long time.

Is the Latest Re-Vamp Enough to Save an Iconic Luxury Store?

Published by Pamela Thomas-Graham

Most of us do our spring cleaning and tidying up in April and May, and then we head outdoors for summer fun. Some of the glittering department and luxury specialty stores of Manhattan, however, have been on a different schedule. They spent the long hot summer indoors, tearing down walls, putting in new light fixtures and flooring, and repainting (the retail equivalent of summer school). All so that as we shuffle back reluctantly from the beach, or the mountains, or wherever the summer took us, we’ll have bright shiny emporiums full of new fall merchandise beckoning us to abandon our computers and smartphones and shop retail.