Enterprising Lord & Taylor senior executive Gerald Blum has died at 86.
Blum died at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center of an unspecified cause, according to Gloria Rabinowitz, a former colleague.
After a two-year stint in the U.S. Army’s Quartermaster Corps, he joined Lord & Taylor’s executive training program in 1956. There he climbed the corporate ladder working an assortment of assistant buyer and buyer jobs before being named vice president of sales promotion in 1972 and then senior vice president in 1975.
LaVelle Olexa, Lord & Taylor’s former senior vice president and longtime fashion director, said Monday, “He truly was a good friend to me, coming onto Lord & Taylor and being the new person on board. He’d had fashion ad advertising for such a long time, and he was such a historian of Lord & Taylor. He had so much to impart on somebody, who was new. And he could not have been lovelier to me. I had true affection for him.
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