History of ann taylor stores in nyc
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Ann Inc.
American clothing company
| Formerly | Ann Taylor Stores (1954–2011) |
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
Traded as | NYSE: ANN |
| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | 1954; 71 years ago (1954), in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. (as Ann Taylor Stores) |
| Founder | Richard Liebeskind |
| Headquarters | Times Square Tower, New York City, New York, U.S. |
Key people | |
| Revenue | US$248.8 million (Q2 2014)[1] |
Operating income | US$54.9 million (Q2 2014)[1] |
Net income | US$32.7 million (Q2 2014)[1] |
| Total assets | US$998.842 million (Q2 2014)[1] |
| Total equity | US$474.618 million (Q2 2014)[1] |
Number of employees | 19,900 (Jan. 2012)[2] |
| Parent | Ascena Retail Group (2015–present) |
| Divisions | Ann Taylor Loft Lou & Grey Ann Taylor Factory Loft Outlet |
| Website | Ann Inc. (corporate) www.anntaylor.com www.loft.com Lou & Grey |
Ann Inc. is an American group of specialty apparelret
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Lord & Taylor
American department store since 1826
Lord & Taylor was the oldest-surviving department store chain in the United States. The company operated full-line department stores from 1826 until it filed for bankruptcy in 2020. The following year, in 2021, it closed all its brick-and-mortar stores. Saadia Group acquired the Lord & Taylor intellectual property and relaunched the e-commerce website later that same year. However, due to financial challenges, Saadia went into default in March 2024. In September 2024, Regal Brands Global acquired the Lord & Taylor intellectual property.[1][2][3][4][5]
History
[edit]Under the Lord family, 1826–1916
[edit]English-born Samuel Lord started a dry goods business in New York City in 1824 and opened the original store that would become Lord & Taylor in 1826, on Catherine Street in what is now Two Bridges, Manhattan. The shop stocked hosiery, misses' wear,
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The Case for Boring Office Clothes
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Women frown on the Ann Taylor aesthetic, but there’s an upside to basic.
By Olga Khazan
A recent Saturday Night Live sketch featured a parody store called mode Coward, “the only store for people who hate shopping and feel lost and scared.” Contrasting its neutral cardigans with the edgy jackets worn bygd the truly fashionable, the fake commercial proudly announced that “we keep it safe with things like ‘brown sweater’ and ‘pants for the legs.’” At one point, the actor Emma Stone, playing a customer, says that if fashion tells a story, Fashion Coward’s is, “I’m a stranger to myself.” The end of the skit reveals Fashion Coward’s inspiration: Ann Taylor.
Ann Taylor, the tried-and-true, white-collar women’s retailer, fryst vatten in the strange position of being both ubiquitous and ubiquitously mocked. Most women whose titles end in something like coordinator or manager likely own a pair or two of Ann’s sexy-but-not-too-sexy slacks