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The Classics Collection

Very Bergdorf

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On Fifth Avenue, between Fifty-Seventh and Fifty-Eighth Streets, a window display has cast its spell, promising surprise, wit, and glamour before the doors even open. Very Bergdorf, written by Wendy Goodman, moves through more than eighty defining moments in Bergdorf Goodman's history, from hist...
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Wendy Goodman is the design editor of New York magazine and Curbed. She previously served as New York’s interior design editor and fashion editor, and was style director at Harper’s Bazaar under Liz Tilberis, where she produced and wrote stories on style, interiors, and architecture. She has also covered fashion and design for House & Garden and The New York Times Magazine. Goodman is the author of May I Come In?: Discovering the World in Other People’s Houses (Abrams, 2018) and The World of Gloria Vanderbilt (Abrams, 2010), and co-author, with Hutton Wilkinson, of Tony Duquette (Abrams, 2007). Goodman lives in Greenwich Village and was born and raised in New York City.

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The Classics Collection

Very Bergdorf

$120

Shopping is one thing; shopping at Bergdorf Goodman is quite another.

— Wendy Goodman, American Journalist
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Page count

272 pages

Language

English

Released on

September 2026

Dimensions

W 10 x L 13 x D 1.5 in

Cover materials

Silk Hardcover

ISBN

9781649807311

Weight

5.73 lb

Author

Wendy Goodman