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Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge

By (author) Lindy Woodhead
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Published: 20th Dec 2012
Dimensions: w 125mm h 197mm d 22mm
Weight: 290g
ISBN-10: 1781250588
ISBN-13: 9781781250587
Barcode No: 9781781250587
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In 1909, the largest department store in London's West End, designed and built from scratch, opened in Oxford Street in a glorious burst of publicity. The mastermind behind the facade was American retail genius Harry Gordon Selfridge: maverick businessman, risk-taker, dandy and one of the greatest showmen the retail world has ever known. His talents were to create the seduction of shopping, and as his success and fame grew, so did his glittering lifestyle: mansions, yachts, gambling, racehorses - and mistresses. From the glamour of Edwardian England, through the turmoil of the Great War and the heady excesses of the 1920s and beyond, Selfridges Department Store was 'a theatre with the curtain going up at 9 o'clock each morning'. Mr Selfridge reveals the captivating story of the rise and fall of the man who revolutionised the way we shop. The third series of Mr Selfridge will air on ITV in January 2015. 'Lively and entertaining' Sunday Telegraph 'Will change your view of shopping forever' Vogue 'Harry Selfridge revolutionised the way we shop ... fascinating' Daily Mail

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In this energetic and wonderfully detailed biography, Lindy Woodhead ... provides an enthralling description of fashion, politics, music and dance, the arts, the sciences advertising and the use of the media, during the decades before the Second war. * Evening Standard * A rich social history of a time of great change * Spectator Business * A fascinating biographical, as well as sociological, study -- Independent on Sunday