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Sakowitz was a men's clothing store which grew into a small chain of family-owned high-end department stores based in Houston, Texas.It operated from 1902 until 1990. Sakowitz was responsible for launching many of the now-famous European fashion designers in America - among them Andre' Courreges, Yves St. Laurent Rive Gauche, Zandra Rhoades, Givenchy, and Erminegildo
They also had a son, Robert T. Sakowitz (born c. 1939), known as the merchant prince of Houston. [7] The Sakowitz family owned the Sakowitz fashion specialty stores. Oscar Wyatt and Robert Sakowitz did not get along. [7] Lynn Sakowitz has been married twice. Her first husband was Robert Lipman and they had two sons together.
A 2007 Texas Monthly magazine article called Wyatt the real "J. R. Ewing" of the Oil Business and described Oscar and his fourth [8] wife Lynn Sakowitz, a fixture of Houston social, fashion together as the beauty and the beast. [9] Known as a shrewd businessman, Wyatt was both beloved and hated, litigious and charitable.
Among the leading philanthropists in Texas were several Jews such as Ben Taub. Taub who was born and raised in Houston, became a leading real estate developer. He donated the land for the University of Houston when it was founded in 1936. He also helped Baylor College of Medicine to move to Houston from Dallas in 1943. Taub founded a new public ...
Gulfgate Center, also known as Gulfgate Shopping City or Gulfgate Center, is a shopping center located in the East End, Houston, Texas, United States. [1] The mall is located northwest of the intersection of the Gulf Freeway and Interstate 610. This is not an indoor shopping mall, it is a center of individual retail stores.
Saks Fifth Avenue Center of Fashion, later Pavilion Saks Fifth Avenue, then Pavilion at Post Oak, was a shopping center in Uptown Houston open from 1974 through 2007, originally centered around a large 240,000 sq ft (22,000 m 2) Saks Fifth Avenue store which closed in 1997.
In 1997, the company moved into its new 60,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Houston, followed by the opening of its first major international office and hub in Hong Kong that same year. Smith established a European presence with the opening of its Amsterdam office in 1999.
Robert Louis Salkowitz (born April 28, 1967, Philadelphia, PA) is an author, educator and consultant whose work focuses on the social and business impact of technology innovation.