Pushing her was Galina Royzman, Ms. Prokopov’s dark-haired and more pragmatic Bergdorf colleague at Chanel for the last 17 years. They do everything as a team, racking up some of the store’s highest sales numbers, according to executives. It’s not unusual for a client to spend $25,000 to $50,000 with them in a morning of shopping, although once a client dropped around $360,000; and just six months ago another spent $275,000. That was in a single day. Despite working through at least two recessions, the women say they usually meet their annual sales goals.

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