Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter, who with her husband, Jack, built the empire of tulle and satin known as Kleinfeld’s, the bridal superstore that for decades drew women from all over the world to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, died on March 29 in Manhattan. She was 99.

I Kleinfeld & Son was a family business, originally a small fur concern started by Ms. Schachter’s father, Isadore Kleinfeld. But it was Ms. Schachter, known as Miss Hedda, who with Jack expanded it into what would become perhaps the largest and most famous bridal emporium in the world.

Patricia Leigh Brown, writing in The New York Times in 1987, described it as a store “that is to wedding gowns what the Pentagon is to fighter bombers.”