# Professor Thomaï Serdari comments on Barneys New York's bankruptcy and the rapidly-changing retail landscape

1 Faculty News August 8, 2019 ![retail dive logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/Retail-Dive-logo-feature_0.jpg?itok=3-tORRZm)>

Excerpt from [Retail Dive](https://www.retaildive.com/news/how-barneys-new-york-lost-its-cool/560356/) -- "'It's very avant-garde, and that sort of avant-garde fashion needs a different type of consumer, which there aren't that many of anymore,' she said. 'It was sort of a three-dimensional glossy magazine, with a curatorial point of view and a very specific urban selection of apparel.'"

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