It's most often attributed to Harry Gordon Selfridge, the Wisconsin-born retail magnate who got his start at one of the nation's first department stores, Marshall Field's, before building a ...

The story goes that the watch’s original owner, Harry Gordon Selfridge (yes, of the department store) was friends with Earheart and traded her this piece in exchange for the Longines she wore ...

In 1909 London, an American retail tycoon arrives at the unfashionable end of Oxford Street to jettison fusty British tradition and open one of the finest department stores the world had ever seen ...

The program is inspired by the store's American founder Harry Gordon Selfridge, who gave keys to the first customers in 1909 when Selfridges opened. The membership program is an extension of ...