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When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion by Julie Satow is a work of narrative nonfiction that examines the rise and influence of women leaders in New York department stores during the twentieth century. Centered on Hortense Odlum, Dorothy Shaver, and Geraldine Stutz, the book shows how these executives helped shape American fashion through Bonwit Teller, Lord and Taylor, and Henri Bendel. Rather than treating department stores as simple retail spaces, Satow presents them as cultural institutions where merchandising, taste-making, and female ambition intersected. The book also places their careers in the larger history of women entering professional and commercial life, especially in an era when high-level business authority was still heavily restricted by gender. Its purpose is both historical and interpretive: to recover overlooked figures, explain how they influenced fashion and retail, and show why their work mattered far beyond the stores themselves.