Helena Rubinstein: The Woman Who Invented Beauty

by Michele Fitoussi

Kate Bignold (Translator) and Lakshmi Ramakrishnan Iyer (Translator)

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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. 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. For this visionary entrepreneur lived and breathed her work and nobody - lover, husband or child - was allowed to get in the way of business success. Helena Rubinstein was a total original, and her legacy can still be seen today in the methods used to market and manufacture cosmetics. This is her amazing life story.
  • ISBN10 1908313463
  • ISBN13 9781908313461
  • Publish Date 25 February 2013
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Gallic Books
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 404
  • Language English