Hickson Inc.
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Hickson Inc. was a high-class fashion retailer, designer, and department store in New York City in the early decades of the twentieth century. The firm started as a men's tailor but evolved to be what the designer Howard Greer described as "the most elegant and expensive specialty shop on Fifth Avenue."[1]
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Company type | Women's Clothing |
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Industry | Fashion |
Founded | 1902; 122 years ago (1902) in New York City, New York, United States |
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Defunct | September 1931; 92 years ago (1931-09) |
Fate | Bankrupt |
Successor | Nelson-Hickson Inc. |
Headquarters | New York , United States |
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In the 1910s, the firm dressed actresses in silent movies, and 1926, it opened a purpose-built store in a corner position on Fifth Avenue. It worked with Madeleine Vionnet and Georges Matchabelli. Charvet & Fils took space in their store. However, in 1931, at the start of the Great Depression, they filed for bankruptcy. Several Hickson creations are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.