African Leaders of the Twentieth Century, Wilson Lindy

Автор: Woodhead Lindy
Название: War Paint
ISBN: 1844089045 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844089048
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: War Paint is the story of two remarkable women - Miss Elizabeth Arden and Madame Helena Rubinstein. Between them they left an extraordinary legacy which touches the lives of virtually all women today: the creation of the modern cosmetics and beauty industry. War Paint will trace the humble beginnings of both Arden and Rubinstein and examine the forces and influences that drove them.

The book will also look at the period in which they lived, without which their phenomenal achievement cannot be truly appreciated. The similarities between the two are intriguing: dedicated to beauty, neither were great beauties themselves. They were both diminutive in size, if not in the size of their ego.

They were both born into genteel poverty and were motivated by money and the creation of their businesses, to the exclusion of almost everything else. They were both avid social climbers and desperately thrifty. They also hated each other.

This is the story of an industry, of a social movement and of a great rivalry. Gripping, glamorous and totally absorbing, this is social history at its best.

Автор: Woodhead Lindy
Название: Mr Selfridge
ISBN: 1781250588 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781250587
Издательство: Profile
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Описание: Zola called Selfridges a `great cathedral of shopping`, and its high priest was Harry Gordon Selfridge, father of modern retailing, philanderer, gamble dandy and the greatest showman the consumer world has ever known. The charismatic Selfridge had created nothing less than a lavish `theatre of retail`.