Julie Satow

Jul 26, 2024 | wsj.com | Julie Satow

When the colorful former fashion retailer Irvine Sellar sought to develop a skyscraper near London Bridge in 1999, the backlash was intense. His critics were obsessed with, among other things, guarding the sightlines to St. Paul’s Cathedral and the Tower of London.

Jul 25, 2024 | nytimes.com | Julie Satow

In a small workroom on Pell Street in Chinatown, Evan O'Hara bent over a scrap of skin from an alligator's leg and used a large cotton swab to dab it with electric orange dye. Nearby, Janos Papai was pushing a hulking, ancient-looking machine over another scrap of bleached alligator, stitching on a zipper. Mr. O'Hara, 39, is a leather craftsman whose exclusive custom creations range from $1,800 pickleball racket covers to purple ombre McLaren racing car seats. Mr. Papai, 68, is his mentor.

Jul 25, 2024 | bismarcktribune.com | Julie Satow |Guy Trebay |James Tarmy

'When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion'By Julie Satow (Doubleday)If anything, the book's title undersells the full scope of women's influence on American fashion. Satow shows how women occupied every strata of the U.S. sartorial landscape, particularly in the half-century from the 1930s to the '80s, when homegrown apparel makers emerged from the shadow of Paris and came into their own.

Jun 24, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Julie Satow

Given that women are the biggest buyers of books in America, and that the country also boasts the largest apparel market in the world ($312.4 billion from 1992 to 2022), the combination of a book about women in fashion is bound to be a bestseller for Julie Satow, who ingeniously spotlights the three female moguls who ruled Fifth Avenue fashion in the 20th century. With style and sass, Satow tells the story of the trio who revolutionized retail at Bonwit Teller, Lord &Taylor, and Henri Bendel.

Jun 17, 2024 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Sonia Gollance |Julie Satow

With the most elu­sive chal­lenges, some­times a solu­tion lies right in front of us. That prin­ci­ple guides my work as a schol­ar of Jew­ish iden­ti­ty in pop­u­lar media, as I use the screens in front of us — the films, TV episodes, music videos, tweets, and memes that we con­sume every day — to defuse com­mon real-world chal­lenges in dis­cussing antisemitism. Both Jews and non-Jews com­mon­ly strug­gle to explain how anti­semitism works in twen­ty-first-cen­tu­ry Amer­i­ca.