About Henri Bendel Store

jewelry, luxury fashion accessories, home fragrances and gifts.Its flagship New York store is located at 712 Fifth Avenue. Henri Bendel was the first retailer to have its own fragrance, to offer in-store makeovers, and to stage its own fashion show.The retailer is credited with developing the shop-within-a-shop merchandising concept that’s in use in some department stores today.[6] Contents 1 History and influence 2 Flagship store landmark status 3 Ownership 4 References 5 External links History and influence Henri Willis Bendel was born in Louisiana in 1868 and moved to New York to work as a milliner.He opened his first shop, in Greenwich Village, in 1895. In 1907, he began branding the brown-and-white striped boxes that are still identified with the company.In 1913, Henri Bendel was the first retailer to sell Coco Chanel designs in the U.S. After Bendel’s death in 1936,his nephew became the store’s president and served until his retirement in 1954.Bendel\'s nephew, who later founded Belgian Shoes, died in 1997. Geraldine Stutz was president of Henri Bendel from 1957 to 1986.Stutz had “a legendary eye for discovering the newest designers and using them first,” including Perry Ellis, Jean Muir, Sonia Rykiel, Carlos Falchi, Mary McFadden, and Ralph Lauren.In 1958, Stutz turned the store’s main sales floor into a “U-shaped ‘Street of Shops,’\" which some consider the forerunner of today’s shop-within-a-shop merchandising displays. During the 1960s, Andy Warhol was an in-h