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Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge

Author : Lindy Woodhead
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812985052
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge written by Lindy Woodhead and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you lived at Downton Abbey, you shopped at Selfridge’s. Harry Gordon Selfridge was a charismatic American who, in twenty-five years working at Marshall Field’s in Chicago, rose from lowly stockboy to a partner in the business which his visionary skills had helped to create. At the turn of the twentieth century he brought his own American dream to London’s Oxford Street where, in 1909, with a massive burst of publicity, Harry opened Selfridge’s, England’s first truly modern built-for-purpose department store. Designed to promote shopping as a sensual and pleasurable experience, six acres of floor space offered what he called “everything that enters into the affairs of daily life,” as well as thrilling new luxuries—from ice-cream soda to signature perfumes. This magical emporium also featured Otis elevators, a bank, a rooftop garden with an ice-skating rink, and a restaurant complete with orchestra—all catering to customers from Anna Pavlova to Noel Coward. The store was “a theatre, with the curtain going up at nine o’clock.” Yet the real drama happened off the shop floor, where Mr. Selfridge navigated an extravagant world of mistresses, opulent mansions, racehorses, and an insatiable addiction to gambling. While his gloriously iconic store still stands, the man himself would ultimately come crashing down. The true story that inspired the Masterpiece series on PBS • Mr. Selfridge is a co-production of ITV Studios and Masterpiece “Enthralling . . . [an] energetic and wonderfully detailed biography.”—London Evening Standard “Will change your view of shopping forever.”—Vogue (U.K.)

Shopping, Seduction and Mr Selfridge

Author : Lindy Woodhead
Publisher : Profile Books(GB)
ISBN 13 : 9781861971692
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Shopping, Seduction and Mr Selfridge written by Lindy Woodhead and published by Profile Books(GB). This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the visionary American retailer Harry Gordon Selfridge, rightfully known as 'the showman of shopping', moved from Chicago to open his eponymous store in Oxford Street, he brought with him his heartfelt belief in the sex appeal of shopping. In the process Selfridge became rich and famous, But his weakness for high living: fast women, grand houses, extravagant entertaining and an insatiable addiction to gambling, brought about his downfall. Thirty years after he opened his revolutionary store, Harry Gordon Selfridge was ousted in a Board Room coup. In 1947, he died virtually penniless in a small flat in Putney. His memorial is in Oxford Street, where the towering Ionic columns of Selfridges stand witness to the achievement of his dreams. In this book, which explores the rise of twentieth-century consumerism, Lindy Woodhead tells the extraordinary story of a revolution in shopping and the rise and fall of a retail prince.

Mr. Selfridge

Author : Lindy Woodhead
Publisher : Vallardi
ISBN 13 : 8867316605
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Selfridge written by Lindy Woodhead and published by Vallardi. This book was released on 2014-10-23T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Londra esisteva già Harrods, che aveva tra i suoi clienti affezionati Oscar Wilde. I profeti di sventura erano disposti a scommettere sull’insuccesso della fiammante cattedrale del commercio. Ma Selfridge aveva la strategia vincente: rendere lo shopping eccitante come il sesso. La sua vita, sullo sfondo del jet set angloamericano, è stata segnata dall’ambizione, dal glamour e dall’amore smodato per il lusso e il gioco d’azzardo. Lindy Woodhead la ricostruisce con lo stile frizzante e appassionato di un grande romanzo. Nella seconda metà dell’Ottocento da Parigi a New York, i grandi magazzini – i «Paradisi delle signore», come li chiamava Emile Zola – cambiarono per sempre il volto del commercio. Ma nessuno meglio di Harry Gordon Selfridge comprese che lo shopping non ha solo a che fare con la qualità o la bellezza dei prodotti: cercando di prevedere le necessità e di soddisfare il bisogno di stile e svago delle sue clienti, Selfridge riuscì a fare di esso un’esperienza completa, divertente, seducente, e intossicante. Partito come magazziniere, Selfridge divenne l’uomo più importante dei grandi magazzini Marshall Field di Chicago, facendone una Mecca per le appassionate degli acquisti. A cinquant’anni tagliò ogni legame con l’America, e a Londra riuscì a trasformare le sue visioni in una realtà che dura tuttora, contribuendo a fare di Oxford Street una delle vie dello shopping più celebri del mondo. «Un libro pieno di energia e magnificamente dettagliato.» Spectator Business «Una trascinante biografia che è anche un ritratto coinvolgente della società del tempo.» Independent on Sunday

Mr Selfridge

Author : Lindy Woodhead
Publisher : PUNTO DE LECTURA
ISBN 13 : 8466327746
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book Mr Selfridge written by Lindy Woodhead and published by PUNTO DE LECTURA. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El libro en el que se basa la serie de televisión. La fascinante historia del hombre que revolucionó nuestra forma de comprar, ahora convertida en una exitosa serie. En 1909 abrieron sus puertas en Oxford Street, en medio de una colosal campaña publicitaria, los grandes almacenes Selfridges, los primeros de Londres. Detrás de tan elegante fachada estaba Harry Gordon Selfridge, el gran genio estadounidense. Empresario inconformista y arriesgado, dandi y el mayor showman que ha conocido el mundo del comercio, la clave de su éxito fue despertar la seducción por las compras. Y así como crecieron su éxito y su fama, también lo hizo su estilo de vida: mansiones, yates, juegos de azar, caballos de carreras... y amantes. Desde el glamour de la Inglaterra eduardiana y los excesos embriagadores de los años veinte hasta hoy en día, los grandes almacenes Selfridges han sido un gran teatro que levanta el telón todas las mañanas a las nueve en punto. La crítica ha dicho... «Un fascinante estudio biográfico, y también sociológico.» The Guardian «Una descripción cautivadora de la moda, la política, la música y la danza, las artes, las ciencias de la publicidad y el uso de los medios de comunicación en las décadas anteriores a la Segunda Guerra Mundial.» London Evening Standard

Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge

Author : Lindy Woodhead
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812985052
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Selfridge

Author : Fergus Mason
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN 13 : 1629172928
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book Selfridge written by Fergus Mason and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just for a moment try to put every shopping trip you’ve ever made out of your head. Imagine a different world. Imagine that all the goods for sale are locked away in cabinets and to handle them, or even to examine them closely, you need to ask a shop assistant to open it up for you. Imagine that within seconds of entering a store a floorwalker approaches you and asks if you’re planning to buy something – then, when you say “I’m just looking,” rudely tells you to leave. Imagine any attempt to return faulty or unsuitable goods being met with ridicule, obstruction or a flat refusal to help you. Until the late 19th century people didn’t have to imagine that; it was reality. For anyone alive today a visit to the average store back then would convince you that they didn’t really want to sell you anything. The idea of customer service was an alien one. Stores sold things. If you wanted to buy them, fine. If you didn’t they weren’t really interested. Browsing was strongly discouraged and impulse buys were almost unheard of. Shopping was something you did when you had to. It certainly wasn’t something anyone enjoyed. Then, in the late 1880s, one man came along and changed all that. His name was Harry Gordon Selfridge and this is the story of his life.

The World of Mr Selfridge

Author : Alison Maloney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471138852
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The World of Mr Selfridge written by Alison Maloney and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With love affairs, class issues, glamour, great story-telling and social history, Mr Selfridgeis the biggest budget ITV-produced drama of all time. Beginning in 1909, Mr Selfridge follows a colourful cast of characters whose lives and fortunes are entangled with the founder of the magnificent department store. An American retail visionary, Harry Selfridge moved to London in 1906 with his family to build and open the most ambitious department store the world had ever seen. The drama is set at a time when women were revelling in a new sense of freedom and modernity. Harry wanted to indulge, empower and celebrate these women and so opened the doors of his opulent department store on London's famous Oxford Street, changing the way the British shopped forever. This lavishly illustrated book is the official companion to the series. Written with a foreword by series producer Andrew Davies, the book takes fans on a journey through the world of Harry Gordon Selfridge. Rich with historical detail it explores the man himself, his relationship with his family as well as the store, its departments and changing fashions in the early twentieth century. Complete with hundreds of high quality photographs it takes a closer look at the cast and their characters before looking ahead to series three which will pick up in 1919, the point at which Harry's life really begins to unravel.

The Representation of the Protagonist Harry Gordon Selfridge in the TV Series "Mr Selfridge"

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Author : Kim Frintrop
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656940711
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (569 download)

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Download or read book The Representation of the Protagonist Harry Gordon Selfridge in the TV Series "Mr Selfridge" written by Kim Frintrop and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,3, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, course: Graduate Seminar British Studies, language: English, abstract: Macy’s, KaDeWe, Au Bon Marché, Harrods, Whiteley’s, les Galeries LaFayette – all these stores represent only a few of the many well-known department stores situated in different modern metropolises. What all these famous large-scale stores have in common is that they are mass marketplaces which are often referred to as “halls of temptation” (Rappaport 16) or “cathedrals of consumption” (Fiske 10). In this sense, shopping is no longer considered a pure economic act. Rather, it is regarded as an act being strongly associated with illusion, desires, self-fulfillment, seduction and dreams. With their innovative interior and exterior architecture, their overwhelming range of goods coming from all over the world, and their leisure time facilities, they manage to fascinate us. These great stores offer customers an enjoyable shopping experience or rather enable them to spend a unique day out by providing much more than the latest fashion and household goods or nice cafés and restaurants in comfortable settings. Many of this type of store include cinemas, theater shows, fitness center or sometimes even miniature golf courses or bowling centers. March 15, 1909 marks the birth of one of these great department stores, still sustaining its position in British society today: Selfridges. It was the American self-made retail entrepreneur Harry Gordon Selfridge who founded this department store in London’s Oxford Street in 1909 and fascinated his customers by creating a unique experience of shopping (Woodhead 1). To this day, Harry Selfridge is highly praised as a unique marketing innovator. As his personal story inspired ITV drama, there even has been a TV series adapted in which the life of Selfridge and his family members is portrayed as well as the rise and the success of his lifework. Given that this American visionary presents the protagonist of the TV series Mr Selfridge, the aim of this paper is to consider the central question how his character is represented in the series.

Selfridge

Author : Fergus Mason
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN 13 : 1629172928
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (291 download)

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The World of Mr. Selfridge

Author : Alison Maloney
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 : 9780062422248
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book The World of Mr. Selfridge written by Alison Maloney and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official, full-color, illustrated, behind-the-scenes companion to the lavish hit ITV and PBS television series Mr. Selfridge that vividly brings into focus the remarkable man and his time. Set at the crossroads between the old and the new—when the Victorian and Edwardian eras gave way to the modern age—Mr. Selfridge illuminates the passions, drama, tensions, and promise of the early twentieth century, embodied in one charming, dynamic, self-made man: department store tycoon Harry Gordon Selfridge. Mr. Selfridge follows a colorful cast of characters whose lives and fortunes are entangled with the founder of the magnificent department store that bears his name: Selfridge’s. American retail visionary Harry Selfridge moves to London in 1906 with his family to establish the most ambitious department store the world had ever seen. While his dreams inspire many, they also challenge the staid conventions of British society. A saga bursting with love affairs, class divisions, cultural clashes, ambition, betrayals, and secrets, Mr. Selfridge is set in an era when women reveled in a new sense of freedom and modernity. A charming, dynamic, brilliant, and forceful man who enjoys and respects women, Harry opens the doors of his opulent department story on London's famed Oxford Street to indulge, empower and celebrate them, changing the way the British—and the world—shopped forever. Including a foreword by series producer Andrew Davies, this official illustrated companion to the series—the biggest ITV-produced drama of all time—takes fans on a journey through the world of the series, Selfridge’s, and the larger-than-life entrepreneur, husband, lover, and family man behind it. Rich with historical detail, The World of Mr. Selfridge examines the real man and the fictional character based on him, his relationship with his family, his genius for retail, and his flagship store, including its departments and changing fashions in the early twentieth century. Complete with hundreds of gorgeous photographs, The World of Mr. Selfridge takes a closer look at the cast and their characters over the first two seasons, and looks ahead to series three, which begins in 1919—when Harry’s life really begins to unravel.

Media Representations of Retail Work in America

Author : Brittany R. Clark
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666906395
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Media Representations of Retail Work in America written by Brittany R. Clark and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media Representations of Retail Work in America examines the ways in which retail workers have been portrayed in popular culture texts from the early 20th century to the 21st century.

Pan Selfridge

Author : Lindy Woodhead
Publisher : Motto
ISBN 13 : 8026707834
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Pan Selfridge written by Lindy Woodhead and published by Motto. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kniha, která se stala inspirací úspěšného televizního seriálu Pan SelfridgeŽivot zakladatele známého obchodního domu Selfridges, který revolučním způsobem ovlivnil i naše nakupování, byl plný přepychu, krásných žen a hazardu. Harry Gordon Selfridge byl však také vizionář, který se podílel na zrodu moderní reklamy a koncepce dnešních obchodních domů. Rozpoznal potenciál konfekce a prosadil prodej dámské kosmetiky. Nezajímal se ale jen o módu a obchod, dokázal vždy vyhmátnout a podpořit všechno nové a progresivní, co doba přinášela. Především ale dovedl odhadnout, po čem ženy touží, a nabídnout jim to.Nechejte se svést!Lindy Woodhead věnovala dvacet pět roků svého života práci v módním průmyslu jako odbornice pro styk s veřejností, spolu s manželem Colinem založili PR agenturu. Koncem osmdesátých let minulého století se dostala jako první žena vůbec do představenstva Harvey Nichols’. S příchodem nového tisíciletí se ve věku padesáti let rozhodla od základů změnit svou profesní dráhu a stát se spisovatelkou. Její první kniha, War Paint: Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden – Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry vyšla v roce 2003. Svůj zájem o svět módy a obchodu využila i při psaní knihy Pan Selfridge (Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge), kterou vydala v roce 2007. Jejím nejnovějším dílem je Midnight Mother: Mrs Meyrick – The Most Notorious Nightclub Owner in 1920s London z roku 2014. Pravidelně přispívá do časopisů věnujících se životnímu stylu. S manželem mají dva syny a žijí střídavě v Londýně a v jihozápadní Francii.

Wardrobe Crisis

Author : Clare Press
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1863958355
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Wardrobe Crisis written by Clare Press and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who makes your clothes? This used to be an easy question to answer: it was the seamstress next door, or the tailor on the high street – or you made them yourself. Today we rarely know the origins of the clothes hanging in our closets. The local shoemaker, dressmaker and milliner are long gone, replaced by a globalised fashion industry worth $1.5 trillion a year. In Wardrobe Crisis, fashion journalist Clare Press explores the history and ethics behind what we wear. Putting her insider status to good use, Press examines the entire fashion ecosystem, from sweatshops to haute couture, unearthing the roots of today’s buy-and-discard culture. She traces the origins of icons like Chanel, Dior and Hermès; charts the rise and fall of the department store; and follows the thread that led us from Marie Antoinette to Carrie Bradshaw. From a time when Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein were just two boys from the Bronx, to the world of the global fashion juggernaut, where Zara’s parent company produces more than 900 million garments annually, Press takes us on an insider’s journey of discovery and revelation. Wardrobe Crisis is a witty and persuasive argument for a fashion revolution that will empower you to feel good about your wardrobe again.

The Literary Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Literary Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

When Harry Met Rose

Author : Maria Malone
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781508571971
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book When Harry Met Rose written by Maria Malone and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Selfridge is not in the market for love. Until he meets Rose Buckingham …Smart and successful, a society beauty, Rose knocks the charismatic Harry sideways. For the first time in his life he is head over heels – and Rose, it seems, feels the same. Theirs is a love story with all the makings of a fairy tale, yet snobbish elements of Chicago's well-to-do set are sneering, asking how a self-made man from a poor background can expect to win the heart of a debutante from one of the city's wealthiest families. Harry, accustomed to getting what he wants no matter what, is undeterred. Then, on the eve of Rose's birthday, at a Fourth of July ball attended by all of Chicago society, and with everything going their way, disaster strikes.It seems the couple may not be on course for their happy ending, after all. WHEN HARRY MET ROSE: MR SELFRIDGE AND THE SEARCH FOR LOVE is the tender and touching story of one couple's pursuit of love in defiance of the conventions of their time. The third series ofMr Selfridge airs on ITV from January 2015.

The Spectator

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Midnight Mother

Author : Lindy Woodhead
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781474603140
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Midnight Mother written by Lindy Woodhead and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the rags to riches story of Kate 'Ma' Meyrick, the owner of the infamous 43 Club in Soho. It was a place where the aristocracy rubbed shoulders with the underworld, and where the key players of the roaring twenties congregated to dance the night away. Meyrick was no stranger to controversy, indeed she was sent to prison following the notorious corruption trial of Sergeant George Goddard, the policemen she paid for protection. Fizzing with the excitement and excess of the jazz age, MIDNIGHT MOTHER is not only the story of an extraordinary, iconic woman but also a fascinating insight into one of the most debauched and glamorous periods of London's history.