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Russeks was a fashionable ladies' fur and clothing department store at 390 Fifth Avenue, at the intersection with West 36th Street, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, a building also known as the Gorham Building. [2] The company was founded in 1885 by brothers Frank Russek and Isidore H. Russek.
In the 1960s, Revillon acquired Grauer Furs, New York's preeminent fur manufacturing company. Grauer Furs was founded by Austrian immigrant William Grauer and later operated by Grauer's two sons, Abraham and Herman. In 1970, in a deal negotiated by Herman Grauer, Revillon became the fur supplier to Saks 5th Avenue. This arrangement lasted until ...
When Sol Richer left New York City in the early 1930s, his life was in danger. He found sanctuary in Knoxville, where he opened Richer's Furs in 1938, selling fur coats for $47.50.
A Badgley Mischka fur coat on display in the window of Bergdorf Goodman's Fifth Avenue store in 2008. At first, CHH considered building branch locations, [15] ultimately only constructing one location, in nearby White Plains, New York, in 1974. This location eventually became a Neiman Marcus branch in 1980. [16]
In 2007, The Humane Society of the United States reported that some Andrew Marc coats labelled as having fake fur were in fact trimmed with fur from Chinese domestic dogs. [3] [4] In 2008, the Humane Society filed a lawsuit claiming that Andrew Marc labeled real fur as fake fur, or labeled raccoon dog fur as common raccoon, fox or rabbit fur. [5]
The American Fur Company (AFC) was a prominent American company that sold furs, skins, and buffalo robes. [1] [2] It was founded in 1808, by John Jacob Astor, a German immigrant to the United States. [3]
A longtime Kansas City area furrier — Ambience Furs — is closing, its owners told The Star. After 38 years of selling coats made of lynx, mink, fox and sheared beaver, as well as other items ...
The Market NYC was founded in 2002, when a small group of designers and artists, including the Alex Pabon and Nicolas Petrou, were looking for a location in New York City to sell their goods, rather than do so on a consignment basis in boutiques, or on open day at Henri Bendel – where lines of designers waited outside for hours to have a chance to sell. [2]