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LYNN B. GODDESS
Retired, Upper East Side
Where are you coming
from? I’m here every
Thursday after my
standing 11:30 at Serge
Normant. It’s a very well-
known salon.
What are you buying
today? Chanel eyeliner
and a bottle of Opium by
YSL, which has been
my fragrance for 30 years.
The second floor has
a wonderful array of
greeting cards. I’m a
Papyrus woman—do you
know what Papyrus is?
Ye s.
Well, they have Papyrus
here but also have even-
higher-end makes.
Zitomer is stocked by
a woman of taste; that’s
why it’s still going
strong, unlike Barneys,
which is. She
is a wo
and the women who shop
here are women of
taste. Some more than
others, of course.
Photographs by Kyle Dorosz
the look book goes to
Zitomer
We spoke to shoppers at
the nearly 70-year-old
Upper East Side pharmacy–
slash–department store.
interviews by
katy schneider and
jane drinkard