Curator Beth Dincuff Charleston
Photographer Lolly Koon
Dresser Jennifer Holley
Exhibition Photography Coordinator Aneesa Shiekh

This exhibition was financed by the Faculty Development Fund. Many thanks to David Ford for his invaluable help facilitating the payment of numerous invoices and work approvals.
This online exhibition would have been impossible without the help and support of a talented group of individuals  including Wendy Scheir, Kellen Archive Director for her support and assistance with the Adam and Sophie Gimbel Archive; Patrick Michael Hughes for sharing his original research and insight on Sophie Gimbel and the Salon Modern, Carmela Spinelli for her tireless work in augmenting and preserving the Parsons Fashion Archive, Tim Gunn  and Marsha Tonkins for providing  a creative haven for both the collection and myself and  Simon Collins and Steven Faerm for their support during the FDF application process.

For further information

Harris, Leon. Merchant Princes:  An Intimate History of Jewish Families Who Built Great Department Stores, New York:  Harper & Row, Publishers:  New York, 1979.
Hendrickson, Robert. The Grand Emporiums: The Illustrated History of America’s Great Department Stores. New York, Stein & Day, 1979.
Leach, William. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture. New York, Pantheon, 1993.