The exhibition will look at the world's most famous examples of little black dresses from Elizabeth Hurley's Versace safety-pin dress to Audrey Hepburn's Breakfast at Tiffany's classic.
The point was also made in the 1950s, though more mildly, when Truman Capote wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's, for which Tiffany paid not a cent.
And, as New Yorkers are discovering, not all the city's profitable retailers sparkle like Tiffany's.
Friedman Theatre, a few blocks from where Greenberg's other Broadway work this season, "Breakfast at Tiffany's, " sits like a lump.
At the court's periphery, the flower-topped columns and golden glass lanterns of Louis Comfort Tiffany's garden loggia at Laurelton Hall evoke a lost world of decorative magnificence and sumptuous style.
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Emilia Clarke of HBO's "Game of Thrones" didn't get a nomination for "Breakfast at Tiffany's, " but the show came up empty Tuesday.
On the higher end, Saks is limping, but Tiffany's cachet makes it worth 30 times.
Tiffany's shares jumped 8% last week when Japan's Mitsukoshi said it was selling its 12% holding.
The Wiederhorns are staying in Portland for now, though the possibility of moving has crossed Tiffany's mind.
But Tiffany's remedy, a lawsuit against eBay, the world's biggest online auctioneer, is a step too far.
ECONOMIST: Tiffany's lawsuit threatens eBay's eclectic market
As both countries have been relatively relaxed about copyright and trademark laws, complaints like Tiffany's will probably increase.
ECONOMIST: Tiffany's lawsuit threatens eBay's eclectic market
He was best known for his version of the song Moon River, originally written for the film Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Luxury jeweler Tiffany's global sales fell steeply during the holiday period, tumbling 21 percent from the same period a year ago.
Tiffany's image and sales both suffered in the early 1980s when it was briefly part of Avon, a downmarket cosmetics group.
These two factors--bulging inventory and vertical integration--help explain why Tiffany's net profit margin sits at 9.6% while Graff puts his at 12%.
Tiffany's thought so highly of Mr Moore that it held on to him until he was 84, when he dressed his last window.
Tiffany's accorded Mr Moore the title of vice-president for window-display, a juxtaposition of the seemingly grand and the ordinary that may have amused him.
The results, which include the critical holiday season, show Tiffany's resilience even as it faces challenges in the U.S. and a fiscal crisis in Europe.
Nordstrom and the Tiffany's of the world, their sales are great.
Kowalski, Tiffany's chairman and chief executive officer, said in a statement.
Stepping into Tiffany's, Bergdorf's and Takashimaya is just the beginning...
Was Tiffany's now taking a risk in allowing this, um, innovator to be given the freedom of its precious windows, its very invitation to the marvels within?
Carmen, apparently, wants to make her directorial debut on a movie called "Bombay Night, " which she has described as a take on "Breakfast at Tiffany's" set in Mumbai.
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" represents Atwood's Broadway debut and she already anticipates that her creations will have to be sturdier to survive the wear and tear of an eight-show-a-week routine.
Tiffany's action against eBay concerns the sale of counterfeits.
ECONOMIST: Tiffany's lawsuit threatens eBay's eclectic market
In 1955, when Gene Moore joined Tiffany's, the venerable store was, as it still is, the most intimidating establishment in Fifth Avenue, a place of steep prices and unsmiling, if polite, security guards.
Three-time Academy Award-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood avoided the classic outfits that made Audrey Hepburn such a style icon when she designed the clothes for an adaptation of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" that opens this week.
The closure of Woolworths, a British retail chain, indicates how bad things are at the bottom end of the market, but the 30% decline in Tiffany's American holiday sales shows the top end has not been spared either.
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