Helena Rubinstein The Woman Who Invented Beauty

Author : Michèle Fitoussi
Publisher : Gallic Books
ISBN 13 : 1908313552
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helena Rubinstein written by Michèle Fitoussi and published by Gallic Books. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helena Rubinstein was born into a poor Polish family at the end of the nineteenth century; by the time of her death in 1965 she had built a cosmeti empire that spanned the world. When Rubinstein opened her first salon in Melbourne, her scientific approach to beauty was an instant sensation. Women just couldn't get enough of her innovative advice on skincare, and her beauty products were constantly sold out. Having conquered Australia, Rubinstein went on to open salons in Europe and America, at a time when women were barely seen in business, let alone running their own multinational companies. Dressed by Chanel and Yves St Laurent, painted by Salvador Dali and Picasso and mingling with Colette and Proust, Helena Rubinstein not only enjoyed unbelievable success, but was also instrumental in empowering and liberating women. Helena Rubinstein was a total original, and her legacy can still be seen today in the methods used to market and manufacture cosmeti. This is her amazing life story.

Author : Michele Fitoussi
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 2080204025
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helena Rubinstein written by Michele Fitoussi and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helena Rubinstein's remarkable life--from the inception of her beauty empire to the legacy she left behind--is celebrated in this comprehensive book that retraces her inspiring story. Helena Rubinstein was the first to establish the link between beauty and science, at a time when makeup was worn only by actresses and prostitutes. Progressive and a feminist, she made beauty accessible, using cosmetics as a means of emancipation. A daring pioneer, she founded a world-famous cosmetics empire with intelligence, courage, intuition, and business acumen. Her visionary marketing and publicity campaigns secured her brand's success, and she left behind one hundred branches in forty countries and 30,000 employees. Until the end of her life, the world's richest woman remained faithful to her humble Polish‒Jewish roots and proud of her Yiddish accent. This illustrated biography recounts Rubinstein's life and legacy--the path to building her empire, her extensive art collection, her fascination with fashion and jewelry, and her groundbreaking achievements in launching the modern beauty revolution.

Author : Ruth Brandon
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551993597
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ugly Beauty written by Ruth Brandon and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to a combination of business savvy, breathtaking chutzpah, and lucky timing, Helena Rubinstein managed to transform herself from a poor Polish emigrant to the world's first self-made female tycoon. She went from selling homemade "Crème Valaze" out of her house in Australia to becoming an international cosmetics magnate. Tiny and plump, wearing extravagant jewels and spiked heels, she was a fixture of upper-crust New York for many years. She was larger than life, and never took no for an answer: when she was refused from a New York City apartment on the grounds that she was Jewish, she went ahead and bought the whole building and promptly moved in. The story of Eugène Schueller and L'Oréal begins in 1907, in a dingy working-class part of Paris, where a young Schueller sat at his family's kitchen table trying to develop the first harmless artificial hair dye. The tale of how L'Oréal went from that point to the world's largest cosmetics company is fascinating and full of intrigue, with a little of everything: fascist assassins, bitter unmaskings, political scandals. In 1988, although Schueller and Rubinstein had long since passed away, their worlds collided when L'Oréal bought Rubinstein's company — leading to a series of scandals that threw a new and sinister light on L'Oréal. For starters, Rubinstein was Jewish, but Schueller and many other top L'Oréal executives had been active Nazi collaborators. What came to light threatened the reputations of some of France's most powerful men - up to and including its president. This is a powerful, dramatic, and largely untold story about the ugly truth behind a beauty empire.

Author : Mason Klein
Publisher : Jewish Museum New York
ISBN 13 : 9780300195569
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helena Rubinstein written by Mason Klein and published by Jewish Museum New York. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been published in conjunction with the exhibition "Helena Rubinstein: Beauty is power," organized by the Jewish Museum, New York, October 31, 2014 - March 22, 2015.

Author : Michèle Fitoussi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908313461
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helena Rubinstein written by Michèle Fitoussi and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This vivid account pops with fascinating detail and reads like fiction. Wonderfully, it isn't."--Elle She understood women. She understood beauty. And she started a revolution. Helena Rubinstein was born into a poor Polish family at the end of the nineteenth century; by the time of her death in 1965 she had built a cosmetics empire that spanned the world. Her scientific approach to beauty was an instant sensation. Women couldn't get enough of her innovative advice on skincare, and her beauty products were constantly sold out. This is her amazing life story. Mich le Fitoussi is a journalist and author.

Author : Teresa Riordan
Publisher : Broadway
ISBN 13 : 0767914511
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing Beauty written by Teresa Riordan and published by Broadway. This book was released on 2004 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the clothing, gadgets, and other products that were designed to promote female beauty is a tour of such innovations as hoop skirts, cosmetic surgery, face cream, and more, in a volume that also discusses the contributions of social trends and technological innovation. Original.

Author : John Misto
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350051993
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Rubinstein written by John Misto and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the glamorous skylines of 1950s Manhattan, world-leading cosmetics entrepreneur Helena Rubinstein is locked in a power struggle with rivals Elizabeth Arden and Revlon. From humble beginnings as a Polish-Jewish immigrant, this is the story behind one of the best-known faces in the world of beauty. But as her professional and family conflicts reach fever pitch, will the ghosts of a turbulent past topple one of the world's richest businesswomen? Madame Rubinstein is a bright new comedy where the nails are painted and the gloves are off. Yet when the lipstick bleeds and the makeup fades, what is there left to hide behind? Written by esteemed Australian playwright John Misto, this edition of the text was published to coincide with its 2017 run at the Park Theatre, London.

Author : Suzanne Slesin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over the Top written by Suzanne Slesin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated volume opens a window into the world of one of the most extravagant and wide-ranging style-makers of the last century, a pioneer of the cosmetics industry who was also celebrated for the daring and prescience of her art collecting, her decorating, and her personal couture. Four hundred vintage images and a meticulously researched text, including 16 essays by renowned experts in the fields of art and interior design, illuminate and trace the public and private lives of Helena Rubinstein. Rubinstein's bold and influential flair for decor - sleekly modern at times, and at other times a wildly eclectic sampling from different eras - was showcased globally in her beauty salons and in her glamorous residences in New York, Paris, and the South of France. An astute patron, she invested in artworks by the luminaries of Parisian bohemia just as they began their ascent. Her vast collection included tapestries by Picasso and Rouault, paintings by Dégas, Dufy, Matisse, Miró, Modigliani, and Monet, as well as murals by Dalí. Her striking instinct for fashion (she wore Worth and Poiret at first, and Balenciaga and St. Laurent 60 years later) and her famous overscaled jewelry kept her in the public eye, decade after decade. Rubinstein's vibrant character, reflected in her personal style and in the interiors of her homes and salons, is captured here in works by photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Brassaï, André Kertész, Dora Maar, and Man Ray - many of which have never before been published. When the flamboyant and decisive Helena Rubinstein died in 1965, at the age of 94, her huge collections were dispersed. But in these pages her world comes alive again: Over the Top is a unique record of the passionate life and style of this self-made mogul and the century she helped define.

Author : Patrick O'Higgins
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780670445301
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame written by Patrick O'Higgins and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1971 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Polish woman who built a multi-million dollar business as one of the first mass-producers of cosmetics.

Author : Lindy Woodhead
Publisher : For Dummies
ISBN 13 : 9781683366485
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Paint written by Lindy Woodhead and published by For Dummies. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden's remarkable rivalry was ruthless, relentless and legendary--pushing both women to build international beauty empires in a world dominated by men.