CENTURY 21, FABLED NEW YORK BARGAIN DESTINATION, IS CLOSING

Sapna Maheshwari in The New York Times, Sep 10, 2020

“‘Century 21 stores represented the quintessential New York deal,’ said Vincent Quan, an associate professor of fashion business management at the Fashion Institute of Technology, who advised Century 21 for many years. “It was the place to go for a deal on fashion merchandise and luxury goods.” He added that people could sometimes find brands like Armani and even Christian Louboutin there.

‘Locals knew it, but tourists especially knew it and what it stood for,’ Mr. Quan said. ‘It was known that tourists would come in with suitcases to go shopping in the store and fill them up, go on the plane and go home.’”