Texas History
May 31, 2022
How Texas Monthly Chronicled the Eighties Oil Bust Via a Beloved Houston Clothier
Bobby Sakowitz dressed Houston’s most stylish through the seventies and eighties boom years. Then things went bust.
Retail Stores
Style & Design
May 12, 2022
How a Kid From San Antonio’s South Side Came to Run Hermès
For two decades, Robert Chavez has overseen the American operations of the luxury French fashion house, which just opened a boutique in Austin.
Style & Design
April 20, 2022
Get a Feather in Your Cap at These Seven “Hat Bars”
Groups of friends are trooping into shops around the state, where you can customize your headgear with dried flowers, charms, and burned-on designs.
Music
February 25, 2021
Texas’s Legendary Sundance Records Is Back With a Massive Memorabilia Collection—For Sale
Nicknamed the Michelangelo of the Staple Gun, Bobby Barnard turned his San Marcos record store into a work of art. Now you can own a piece of it.
Business
February 24, 2021
Why We Shouldn’t Bet Against GameStop
The megachain has never been shy about flexing its industry might, yet it somehow became a poster child for fighting the power of Wall Street.
Business
February 4, 2021
Can a “Modern Retail” Makeover Save JCPenney?
The Plano-based chain tried this before, to disastrous results. Has the department store’s time simply passed?
Food & Drink
December 9, 2020
Italian Culinary Wonderland Eataly Has Come to Texas, and These Are Its Must-Try Snacks
The Italian food superstore opens its seventh North American location at Dallas’s NorthPark Center.
Business
January 20, 2013
Store Wars!
Two luxury retailers: Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue. One desirable market: Houston. The fight for the hearts and credit cards of couture clotheshorses like Lynn Wyatt and Carolyn Farb officially begins next month, but already the fur is flying.
Business
December 1, 1985
The Fraying Empire of Bobby Sakowitz
Robert Sakowitz set out to be a retail Renaissance man. Like his hero Leonardo da Vinci, he was going to do everything. And he did—including something he never imagined: fail.
Being Texan
July 1, 1982
The Store That Made Jonesville Famous
And other great country stores of Texas.