War Paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden: Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry

War Paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden: Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry

by Lindy Woodhead
War Paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden: Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry

War Paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden: Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry

by Lindy Woodhead

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Overview

Now a Tony-nominated Broadway musical playing at the Nederlander Theatre starring two-time Tony Award winners Patti LuPone (Evita, Gypsy) as Helena Rubinstein and Christine Ebersole (42nd Street, Grey Gardens) as Elizabeth Arden.

A fascinating dual biography of the women who founded today's beauty industry

They were both born in the nineteenth century in humble circumstances—Helena Rubinstein in an orthodox Jewish household in Kraków, Poland, Elizabeth Arden on a farm outside Toronto. But by the 1930s, they were bitter rivals in New York, the rulers of dueling international beauty empires that would forever change the way women thought about cosmetics, salons, and wrinkles. This riveting biography brings these two celebrated women to life, revealing the ruthless drive and innovative business strategies that took each to the top. Along the way, it offers an intriguing look at their personal idiosyncrasies (Rubinstein collected art, Arden racehorses), their checkered marriages, and the rarefied social milieu in which they both traveled.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781683366485
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Publication date: 01/01/2004
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 528
Sales rank: 1,130,337
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Lindy Woodhead has worked in fashion PR for more than thirty years. She worked in the music business before establishing her own PR agency in 1974. She has been on the board of Harvey Nichols and worked in television and advertising. She is married and lives in London.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

1. Rivals Even in Death.

2. The Krakow Cream.

3. The Beauty Wizard of Oz.

4. Rise of a Rival.

5. Madame on the Move.

6. Florence Graham Becomes Miss Elizabeth Arden.

7. The Women at War.

8. Masters of Art, Mistresses of Money.

9. Elizabeth and Tommy.

10. In the Money – Helena.

11. End of an Era – Depression and Divorce – Helena.

12. Lipsticks and Lesbians – Elizabeth and Elisabeth.

13. Challenges and Changes.

14. Maine Chance and Makeovers.

15. Princess of the Potions v Lady of the Lotions.

16. The Second World War – Part I.

17. The Second World War – Part II.

18. The Second World War – Part III.

19. All the Queen’s Horses and One of the Queen’s Men.

20. Post-War Warriors.

21. The Fabulous Fifties: Two Beauty Queens and the Man Who Would Be King.

22. Show Time.

23. Last Acts.

24. The Final Years.

25. Taxing Times – The Aftermath.

Epilogue.

Acknowledgements.

Notes and Sources.

Bibliography.

Index.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"The amount of research and meticulous personal data in [your] book is really quite remarkable and compelling. It provides a wealth of information from which to draw wonderfully three-dimensional characters and humanizes this iconic twosome."–Raquel Welch

"I have seldom enjoyed a book so much as WAR PAINT. The research is staggering - I loved all the detail about society and the arts in Paris, New York and London that so beautifully set our two heroines in context during such a long span of years - well done - it was a wonderful read. Thank you for so much enjoyment."–Lulu Guinness

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