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Cautious, publicity-shy Adam Gimbel, president of Saks Fifth Avenue, was the No. 1 pre-war U. S. buyer of Paris high-style merchandise. But "Skap's" stand made him see red. His wife Sophie had recently completed showing her own custom-made midseason collection, without any help from Paris, was full of excitement about fine textiles and exclusive gewgaws that she had been able to coax out of hitherto mass-production-minded U. S. manufacturers. Said Mr. Gimbel: "The Paris of the old days is not the Paris under totalitarian government. Schiaparelli is either misguided-or under...
...stranger to the hinterland is the name of Saks Fifth Avenue. It is the crown jewel of Macy's Herald Square competitor, Gimbel Bros., which last week opened its eighth U. S. shop. The place: Detrot. There for the event with a coterie of 25 top Saks officials was suave Adam Gimbel, who combines polo and business with more than average success. Retailer Gimbel sounded off to the local press on the ability of the U. S. to get on without Paris (TIME, Aug. 19) and of Saks to bring the mode-in-volume to Detroit. Sample sound...
...samples of the new shop's $1,000,000 stock of top-notch gowns, furs, jewels. They bought $30,000 worth -a fine day's business. Mindful of his Hollywood debut two years ago when police had to hold back the crowds and resuscitate fainting women, Adam Gimbel used no initial advertising. Nonetheless, the Detroit papers were kind to him. One reason for that may have been that he had made a deal with the Fisher brothers. His shop is in their New Center Building, close to the General Motors and Fisher office buildings, an area which Banker...
Importance of Paris to the U. S. dress business has been partly synthetic, partly real. Manhattan's fashion world has plenty of adroit and imaginative designers of its own - some (like Bergdorf Goodman's Ethel Frankau, Saks Fifth Avenue's Sophie Gimbel) custom designers of exclusive models; others (like Nettie Rosenstein, Germaine Monteil) adapters of style to the mass-produced items that have made the average U. S. woman the best-dressed average woman in the world. But the U. S. dress business, from Fifth Avenue to Seventh, is atomic, leaderless, cutthroat, jealous of itself. Its genius...
...large, boycotting has been ineffective against producer goods such as German chemicals, iron pipes, tools, wire, certain kinds of industrial machines. Results show most clearly in consumer goods like gloves, furs, toys. In Manhattan, with the biggest Jewish concentration in the U. S., Macy, Saks-Fifth Avenue, Gimbel Bros., Lord & Taylor, Franklin Simon, Bloomingdale, B. Altman and many other stores have stopped carrying German-made merchandise...