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Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge

Lindy Woodhead

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 façade 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.

'Lively and entertaining' Sunday Telegraph

'Will change your view of shopping forever' Vogue

'Harry Selfridge revolutionised the way we shop ... fascinating' Daily Mail

  • Classification : Business, Management & Economics
  • Pub Date : DEC 12, 2013
  • Imprint : Profile Books
  • Page Extent : 336
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781781251898
  • Price : INR 650
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Lindy Woodhead

Lindy Woodhead worked in international fashion public relations for over 25 years. During the late 1980s she spent two years as the first woman on Harvey Nichols' board of directors. Lindy retired from fashion in 2000 to concentrate on writing; her first book War Paint (Virago) a biography of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden was published in 2003. Her second book Shopping Seduction & Mr Selfridge (Profile) was adapted into an ITV drama that ran for four series. She is a regular contributor to The Spectator and The Times Saturday Magazine. A Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts she is married with two sons and lives in Oxfordshire.

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