Betty Ann Halbreich (IPA: [ˈhælbraɪç];[1] née Samuels; November 17, 1927 – August 24, 2024) was an American personal shopper, stylist, and author known for her career at the New York luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman, where she served as Director of Solutions.
[2] Around this time, while vacationing in Miami Beach, she met Sonny Halbreich, the son of a wealthy hotel developer who owned Uwana Wash Frocks, a housecoat and bathrobe manufacturing company.
[12][13] Upon recovery, she began seeking employment, and worked in a series of designer showrooms on Seventh Avenue and later for Chester Weinberg and Geoffrey Beene before being hired at Bergdorf Goodman in 1976 as a sales associate.
[5] In her capacity as the director of solutions at Bergdorf's, Halbreich has served celebrity clients including Hollywood personalities, socialites, and politicians such as Al Gore, Liza Minnelli, and Meryl Streep.
[2] The year that Halbreich and her husband married, they moved into an apartment on Park Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, which would be her home for the rest of her life.