Last winter Catt Sadler left E! News after learning that her co-host Jason Kennedy was earning “double” her salary.
She has now moved on since Lord & Taylor has named her as a “resident style expert.”
“She’s a producer, a journalist, an entrepreneur, and most importantly a mom and a bad-ass woman who represents the styles and values of Lord & Taylor,” said store president Vanessa LeFebvre, at a breakfast Thursday in the penthouse of the Whitby Hotel announcing Sadler’s role at L&T, to a 2018 Women’s Wear Daily report. “She’ll be curating looks on our website and giving Lord & Taylor a voice,” LeFebvre said.
According to a 2018 Women’s Wear Daily report, though she’s never been affiliated with a store, being over 40, a mother, a celebrity and someone who takes a stand on issues, Sadler should have no problem connecting with L&T’s core customer base, who is in their 40s and 50s and typically mothers. “This was a no-brainer for me. Lord & Taylor has always been a champion of women,” said Sadler.
Though the Fifth Avenue flagship of Lord & Taylor, a division of the Hudson’s Bay Co., is scheduled to close early next year, and 10 branches are closing, the brand launched a partnership with Walmart Inc. this summer, putting on walmart.com a Lord & Taylor store with “premium brands” including Nine West and H. Halston. “We’ve been ramping it up and will kick it off in a more significant way in September,” LeFebvre told Women’s Wear Daily in a 2018 report.
Lord & Taylor is a department store in the United States, the oldest department store in the country. Headquartered in New York City, it is a subsidiary of the oldest commercial corporation in North America, the Hudson’s Bay Company.
On April 1, 2018 the Hudson Bay Company gave notice of a theft of customers credit and debit cards due to a hacking incident. A hacking group, known as JokerStash or Fin7, was attempting to sell the information from five million stolen customer credentials on dark websites during the last week of March 2018. The company noted that the majority of the compromised records appeared to be from Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue customers. The Hudson Bay Company noted that customers would not be liable for any charges incurred due to his breach and they will offer no cost credit report monitoring and identity protection services, according to a 2018 Boston Globe report.