New York Shopping: One of Manhattan's chicest shopping environments, Henri Bendel is a girls' playground, where Bendel girls go to find the new and the next in accessories, cosmetics, gifts and fashion. Since 1895 signature brown and white striped Henri Bendel shopping bags have been spotted swinging from the arms fo stylish young women from around the world. A New York icon, as familiar as the flatiron building or the Plaza Hotel, Bendel's luxury heritage and eye for the new, has made shopping at Bendel's a rite of passage for elite young women for more than 100 years.
