News Summary

• In 1986, New York splashed Barneys across its cover, underneath a giant headline that mimicked our own painstakingly redesigned logo: “Dressing Up Downtown.” We knew we had to make a statement to compete with the best, and we weren’t shy about saying that that was exactly the goal.
• The little shop that my grandfather Barney opened in 1923 would now take up an entire city block on Seventh Avenue and halfway down 17th Street toward Sixth.
• Celebrities loved shopping with us and would bring their friends; our personal shopping team had to grow to keep up.