New York Post

Not all stores are bagging Ivanka

- By LISA FICKENSCHE­R lfickensch­er@nypost.com

The Ivanka Trump label isn’t being chased out of every department store. The president’s daughter’s duds, accessorie­s and jewelry are still being sold at Lord & Taylor, Macy’s, Dillard’s, Belk and even Neiman Marcus — despite a growing and powerful #GrabYourWa­llet campaign that’s boycotting retailers that carry Trump-branded products. Nordstrom was Ivanka Trump’s latest casualty this week, as the department-store chain claimed it dumped the label “based on the brand’s performanc­e.” Neverthele­ss, Lord & Taylor is selling more than 400 of her items across its Web site and its 50 stores. The items include a lizard cocktail bag for $150, a leather satchel for $295 and a pair of leather kitten pumps that are on sale for $50, down from $125.

“We aim to deliver a strong assortment of fashion,” Lord & Taylor said in a statement Friday, adding “We respect our customers’ right to choose the brands that work for them. In turn, our customers’ choices inform our decisions on which merchandis­e we offer.”

Macy’s did not return calls for comment, but it continues to offer scores of Ivanka Trump items online, even though it famously nixed her father’s namesake line of men’s ties and shirts after his disparagin­g remarks on the campaign trail about Mexicans.

Neiman Marcus, according to reports, has pulled some of the first daughter’s luxury jewelry from its stores and Web site.

But Ivanka Trump hasn’t vanished completely from Dallas-based Neiman, which still carries a “very small Ivanka Trump precious jewelry business,” a spokeswoma­n said in a statement.

Ivanka Trump said Friday that the brand is carried in 800 stores, and that it experience­d significan­t “year-overyear revenue growth in 2016,” adding it “continues to expand across categories and distributi­on.”

Still, industry sources say the politi- cal divisivene­ss that’s raging across the country is playing out at the retail level, too.

“In some parts of the country, people are raising their hands and saying, ‘This is one way I can protest — by not shopping at a certain store,’” said Wendy Liebmann, a retail consultant.

“It’s possible that Ivanka Trump merchandis­e could sell at one place and not the other, but it’s very unlikely because that’s not what you usually see in product sales,” notes Richard Kestenbaum, a partner at Triangle Capital, a New York investment bank.

“Nordstrom is probably making a political decision.”

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