Author: Ruth Brandon
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Category : Beauty, Personal
Languages : es
Pages : 0
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Helena Rubinstein and L'Oreal's Eugene Schueller both started out in the beauty business during the first years of the twentieth century, and, by the time World War II broke out, had come to dominate it. However, their motivations could not have been more different. Rubinstein, a Polish Jew, claimed the world of paid work for women, and working women's enthusiasm for her products made her the first self-made female millionaire. Schueller, a French conservative in the Henry Ford mold, thought women belonged in the home, and during the Nazi Occupation he used his company as a source of cash to buy economic and political influence. Schueller eventually won the long fight for supremacy: in 1988 his company swallowed Rubinstein's. But the victory cost him his reputation when, in the wake of the takeover, he was exposed as a Nazi collaborator. Deepening the scandal, his wartime activities were shown to have been abetted and condoned by a cadre of young men who, by the time the news broke, had scaled the peaks of wealth and power in postwar France. By then Schueller and Rubinstein were both long dead. But cultural historian and biographer Ruth Brandon argues that the battle they began continues to this day. She examines their conflict to ask important contemporary questions about beauty standards and the often murky intersection of individual political aims and the role of business. Filled with remarkable twists, turns, and larger-than-life characters, Ugly Beauty is a riveting true story about what lies beneath the flawless exterior of the cosmetics industry.
La cara oculta de la belleza
Author: Ruth Brandon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beauty, Personal
Languages : es
Pages : 0
Book Description
Helena Rubinstein and L'Oreal's Eugene Schueller both started out in the beauty business during the first years of the twentieth century, and, by the time World War II broke out, had come to dominate it. However, their motivations could not have been more different. Rubinstein, a Polish Jew, claimed the world of paid work for women, and working women's enthusiasm for her products made her the first self-made female millionaire. Schueller, a French conservative in the Henry Ford mold, thought women belonged in the home, and during the Nazi Occupation he used his company as a source of cash to buy economic and political influence. Schueller eventually won the long fight for supremacy: in 1988 his company swallowed Rubinstein's. But the victory cost him his reputation when, in the wake of the takeover, he was exposed as a Nazi collaborator. Deepening the scandal, his wartime activities were shown to have been abetted and condoned by a cadre of young men who, by the time the news broke, had scaled the peaks of wealth and power in postwar France. By then Schueller and Rubinstein were both long dead. But cultural historian and biographer Ruth Brandon argues that the battle they began continues to this day. She examines their conflict to ask important contemporary questions about beauty standards and the often murky intersection of individual political aims and the role of business. Filled with remarkable twists, turns, and larger-than-life characters, Ugly Beauty is a riveting true story about what lies beneath the flawless exterior of the cosmetics industry.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beauty, Personal
Languages : es
Pages : 0
Book Description
Helena Rubinstein and L'Oreal's Eugene Schueller both started out in the beauty business during the first years of the twentieth century, and, by the time World War II broke out, had come to dominate it. However, their motivations could not have been more different. Rubinstein, a Polish Jew, claimed the world of paid work for women, and working women's enthusiasm for her products made her the first self-made female millionaire. Schueller, a French conservative in the Henry Ford mold, thought women belonged in the home, and during the Nazi Occupation he used his company as a source of cash to buy economic and political influence. Schueller eventually won the long fight for supremacy: in 1988 his company swallowed Rubinstein's. But the victory cost him his reputation when, in the wake of the takeover, he was exposed as a Nazi collaborator. Deepening the scandal, his wartime activities were shown to have been abetted and condoned by a cadre of young men who, by the time the news broke, had scaled the peaks of wealth and power in postwar France. By then Schueller and Rubinstein were both long dead. But cultural historian and biographer Ruth Brandon argues that the battle they began continues to this day. She examines their conflict to ask important contemporary questions about beauty standards and the often murky intersection of individual political aims and the role of business. Filled with remarkable twists, turns, and larger-than-life characters, Ugly Beauty is a riveting true story about what lies beneath the flawless exterior of the cosmetics industry.
La cara oculta
Author: Manuel Durá Martínez
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Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 316
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ISBN:
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Languages : es
Pages : 316
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Bibliographic Guide to Latin American Studies 1996
Author: G K HALL
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780783817644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
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Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780783817644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
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La cara oculta
Author: Feliciana Palacios Martínez
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ISBN: 9788415845447
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 183
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ISBN: 9788415845447
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 183
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La cara oculta
Author: David Bayo
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Languages : es
Pages :
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La cara oculta
Author: Mary Alice Monroe
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ISBN: 9788467139167
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 349
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ISBN: 9788467139167
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 349
Book Description
Pensando en Alta Voz
Author: Enrique A. Meitin
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450089488
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
SUMARIO Algo para empezar..........................................11 De niños a hombres.......................................17 Ñoo... Tremenda Gente....................................61 Cuba: Independiente o Dominada.....................104 El hombre colcho, o el amigo.....................150 Un hermano llamado el mejor........................200 La niña descocada.......................................247 Unos se van otros se quedan........................299 Reunidos en “tierra de libertad”.....................343 Del Combinado a la Yuma: Via Mariel............390 Todos en la misma cuerda........................439 Algo para terminar..........................................486
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450089488
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
SUMARIO Algo para empezar..........................................11 De niños a hombres.......................................17 Ñoo... Tremenda Gente....................................61 Cuba: Independiente o Dominada.....................104 El hombre colcho, o el amigo.....................150 Un hermano llamado el mejor........................200 La niña descocada.......................................247 Unos se van otros se quedan........................299 Reunidos en “tierra de libertad”.....................343 Del Combinado a la Yuma: Via Mariel............390 Todos en la misma cuerda........................439 Algo para terminar..........................................486
La cara oculta
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ISBN: 9788494258596
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 275
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9788494258596
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 275
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La cara oculta de la piel
Author: Esteban Belmonte
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788494590535
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 210
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ISBN: 9788494590535
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 210
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La cara oculta de las estrellas de Hollywood
Author: Miguel Juan Payán
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788495698001
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 192
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9788495698001
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 192
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