An upscale clothier allegedly stole roughly $54,000 in unpaid wages from 9 staff at her Garment District atelier, in accordance with a 16-count indictment unveiled by Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg on Wednesday.
Andrea Mary Marshall, the founding father of Salon 1884, was arraigned Wednesday morning in Manhattan Supreme Court docket, in accordance with the district lawyer’s workplace. Her firm can also be charged within the indictment.
Marshall, 44, allegedly made her staff work “exploitative” hours at her West thirty ninth Avenue studio, with shifts lasting 12 to 17 hours with out pay, in accordance with the DA’s workplace. In at the least two cases, her staff labored greater than 100 hours in a single week. At a press convention, Bragg known as her studio a “sweatshop.”
Salon 1884 has been featured in Vogue and is offered at Neiman Marcus and different luxurious retailers. Among the objects on Salon 1884’s web site, which is at the moment having a sale, initially retailed for almost $3,500. An uneven lambskin leather-based gown, additionally on sale, initially retailed for $8,990.
‘It’s For My Son’
At the least one of many alleged victims repeatedly pleaded with Marshall in what Bragg known as a collection of “disturbing textual content messages” to pay her to ensure that her to ship cash to her ailing son in Ecuador.
“Miss Andrea, please are you able to pay me half. I really want to ship cash to Ecuador for my kids. I really want it, miss, please assist me,” one in every of Marshall’s alleged victims wrote in a textual content dated March 19, 2025 and shared by the Manhattan DA’s workplace.
“It’s for my son. Please, I’m asking you. He’s sick,” the alleged sufferer wrote in a follow-up textual content almost two months afterward Could 9.
Bragg stated the investigation is ongoing and inspired Marshall’s victims to come back ahead, no matter their immigration standing.
“She preyed on the numerous energy imbalance of her staff who relied on the promised wages for housing and primary residing bills, feared retaliation, and lacked the monetary assets to pursue authorized recourse,” Bragg stated of Marshall. “Onerous working New Yorkers deserve each greenback they earn.”
The costs carry a most sentence of 5 to fifteen years in jail.
Marshall was not reachable for remark. Her lawyer, Corey Briskin, couldn’t instantly be reached. Marshall entered a not responsible plea earlier than Manhattan Supreme Court docket Decide Cori Weston.
The allegations date from August 2023 to June of this 12 months. The Manhattan DA’s workplace carried out its probe in collaboration with the state labor division.
In a press launch on Wednesday, prosecutors illustrated an surroundings by which Marshall exercised full management over her staff, setting their schedules, requiring them to punch-in and punch-out and figuring out their pay charges. She paid them by Zelle, the net fee platform, checks, or money.
The DA’s workplace alleges Marshall delayed funds by a collection of “shifting explanations and directions.” In some instances, Marshall provided small funds up-front, round $100, and bailed on paying the remainder of the agreed-upon wages, typically providing her staff garments as a substitute of cash.
A number of of the workers, in accordance with the DA’s workplace, secured judgments in small claims court docket that Marshall didn’t honor.
“You aren’t allowed in my workplace. Give me your handle and I’ll mail you a verify,” Marshall wrote in a March 11, 2025, textual content to an worker who begged for her fee.
Marshall’s Garment District atelier was featured prominently in a September 2023 phase from a CBS Information affiliate in Boston, close to the place she grew up. CBS Boston reported that since launching Salon 1884 the earlier 12 months, the corporate had $1 million in gross sales.
“I really like being a designer. I’m very grateful to have this model, and it’s simply been a beautiful expertise,” Marshall advised CBS Boston.
