By Elizabeth Patton
New York Times
Nov. 29, 2016
LONDON — The death of the It bag may have been greatly exaggerated.
After years of department store footwear expansion, with Harrods in London opening a 42,000-square-foot shoe floor, Macy’s in New York raising that to 63,000, and the Level Shoe District in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to 96,000, their focus has shifted somewhat further up the body.
Or so it seemed last week when the London emporium Selfridges unveiled the first phase of what it says will be the world’s largest handbag hall.