Marvin Traub, Bloomingdale's president, dead at 87
Photo credit: MATT CARASELLA/PatrickMcMullan.com | Marvin Traub at Halston Fall 2008 Fashion Show.
Marvin S. Traub, the former Bloomingdale's president and chief executive who built the chain's flagship store into a New York City icon, transforming shopping into a brand of theater for millions of visitors, died Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.
The death was confirmed by Mortimer Singer, president of Marvin Traub Associates, the consulting firm Traub founded after his 1991...