Today
The catalog operations were licensed to Brylane (now Redcats) in 1993. The retail operations were sold to Charming Shoppes, another owner of plus-size clothing stores, in 1999 for $335 million. Charming has since expanded the chain and introduced online and outlet sales. Lane Bryant's "sister" include Fashion Bug and Catherines. In order to trade on the well-known Lane Bryant brand, Charming folded all of its store sites into the Lane Bryant domain; fashionbug.com and catherines.com both redirect to xxx.lanebryant.com. Today, Lane Bryant is a large retail chain, present in many shopping centers across the United States. In 2004 Lane Bryant opened a flagship store in New York near Fifth Avenue. Charming Shoppes regained the license for the catalog operations in late October 2007.
In 2002, two great-grandsons of Lena Bryant started a company named Fashion To Figure. They continue their family's legacy of full fashion with their specialty chain.
In 2004, two other great-grandsons of Lena Bryant (and the grandsons of Arthur Malsin), organized a buy-out of the Merrow Machine Company, the last American manufacturer of sewing machines. They now operate it in Wareham, Massachusetts.
Read more about this topic: Lane Bryant
Famous quotes containing the word today:
“I became the Incredible Shrinking Mother the year they started junior high. If our relationship today depended on physical clout, I would have about the same influence with them that the republic of Liechtenstein has on world politics.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)
“What we’re saying today is that you’re either part of the solution or you’re part of the problem.”
—Eldridge Cleaver (b. 1935)
“Whether we regard the Women’s Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships.”
—Arianna Stassinopoulos (b. 1950)