By Amy Adejokun
Section editor

Part of the Macy's chain, Blooingdales offers a more exclusive line of products on 59th Street and Lexington Avenue. A real haven for fashionistas, the company created the very first designer shopping bags in 1961, many of which remain classics to this day. You'll find all of the world's greatest designer names reunited under one giant roof - a long way from the dusty beginnings of the Bloomingdale brothers' East Side Bazaar which opened in 1872...