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transferred to majority stakeholder Seel Singer. Singer kept the fashion retailing business going at the same 660 Fifth Avenue building; shortly after, the company was renamed to Nelson-Hickson Inc., following a partnership with clothing designer Anne Nelson. In 1938, Nelson-Hickson moved to "a charming old five-story house" at 9
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Gershel and Horatio S. Simon, doing business under the firm name and style of A. Gershel & Company, Joseph Jonasson & Company and Philip Mangone & Company, Plaintiffs-Respondents, against Hickson Inc., Abraham E. Lefcourt, doing business as A. E. Lefcourt & Company, and
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Hickson Inc. was founded as
Hickson & Company in 1902 by Caroline "Carrie" Hickson-Kennedy, Kathryn "Kate" Hickson, and Richard J. Hickson—all siblings. The company's initial headquarters were at 657 Fifth Avenue in
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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
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with a "bustle-back" that they invented. The light-colored dress was better suited to black and white film than a dark dress, and the film made the design popular. Although the film supported the
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that alleged that they had bought that firm's garments, copied them, and sold them as their designs, as well as removing the labels from the garments they had purchased and selling them too.
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In 1928, the firm suffered a burglary at the firm's 15 West 36th Street workrooms when burglars broke through a wall on the tenth floor and stole clothing valued at $ 30–40,000.
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as she re-established her business in Paris and New York after closing during World War I. Her clothes and workrooms occupied an entire floor of the
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perfume, began appearing at
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described as "the most elegant and expensive specialty shop on Fifth Avenue."
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Illustration of the new Hickson building at 660 Fifth Avenue, New York.
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Fashion, Society, and the First World War: International perspectives.
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