Helena Rubinstein : the Australian years / Angus Trumble ; with a foreword by Sarah Krasnostein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trumble, Angus, author.

Contributor:

Krasnostein, Sarah, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rubinstein, Helena, 1870-1965.

Rubinstein, Helena.

Polish people--Australia--Biography.

Polish people.

Businesswomen--Australia--Biography.

Businesswomen.

Businesswomen--Poland--Biography.

Cosmetics industry--Australia--History.

Cosmetics industry.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 286 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Collingwood, VIC : La Trobe University Press, in conjunction with Black Inc., [2023]

Summary:

This meticulously researched and wryly entertaining portrait of Helena Rubinstein (1872-1965) focuses on the years she spent in Australia as a young woman, recovering a 'lost' chapter in the grand narrative of the woman who created one of the first global cosmetics corporations. At its height, Rubinstein's brand was synonymous with elegance and employed 30,000 women around the world. Rubinstein arrived in Australia from Poland when she was twenty-three years old. She lived in Australia for the next eleven years, working first as a governess and then as a waitress, before opening her first beauty salon in Melbourne. In later years, owing to the degree of control she exercised over her glamorous image, many details of her early life in Australia were suppressed. But the events she airbrushed out of her own myth reveal the surprising origins of her extraordinary rise. In this absorbing book, we see her laying the foundations for a global empire.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 265-273.

ISBN:

9781760644529

1760644528

OCLC:

1390552442