 It brought Afghan coats to the mass market, and popularised the leopard-skin prints first created by Elsa Schiaparelli two decades before.The 1976 opening of the store down the block from Bloomingdale's, on East 59th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues in New York City, introduced the brand to American trendsetters during the disco age.Customers such as Marc Jacobs Cher and Terence Conran would rub shoulders with Jackie Onassis and Lauren Bacall, you might see drag queen Joey Arias serving the King of Spain, author Douglas Coupland absorbing the store's pop culture or Calvin Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt buying some jeans.