Becoming Elizabeth Arden
the woman behind the global beauty empire
$86.92
- Hardcover
512 pages
- Release Date
7 October 2024
Summary
Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Who Painted the World Red
A sweeping biography of one of the most influential and successful businesswomen in American history, Becoming Elizabeth Arden opens the Red Door to a world of wealth, glamour, and the profitable business of beauty.
Elizabeth Arden was a household name on six continents and a millionaire several times over before her death in 1966. Arden counted British royalty and social elites from the overlapping world…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780525559764 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0525559760 |
| Author: | Stacy A. Cordery |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Viking Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 7 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 762g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 164mm |
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Critics Review
The detailed insight into [Arden’s] business practices—including how she framed her treatments as a gateway to the elite—intrigues. Beauty buffs will be rapt.—Publisher’s WeeklyA lusciously long and lively biography … Cordery makes a convincing case that Arden was responsible for many of the innovations taken for granted in the beauty industry today. As beguiling as a day of luxury beauty treatments.—Kirkus
About The Author
Stacy A. Cordery
Stacy A. Cordery, Ph.D., is the author of Alice- Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker, Juliette Gordon Low- The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts, and two books about Theodore Roosevelt. Cordery is a professor of History at Iowa State University in Ames.
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