Person
Helena Rubinstein
Beauty entrepreneur who opened a salon in Melbourne in 1902 and built a cosmetics company.
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founded
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Helena Rubinstein (brand)
1902
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The first salon was in Melbourne, by the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
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- Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry named by the author with Elizabeth Arden Scholarship & press 2
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- 1902 Helena Rubinstein founded Helena Rubinstein (brand)
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Helena Rubinstein, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University.
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Thompson provided £100, the printer produced a label designed by the artist, and Helena opened her salon. Launched as Crème Valaze, costing tenpence and sold at six shillings
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The History of Beauty (interview with Geoffrey Jones on Beauty Imagined), HBS Working Knowledge, Harvard Business School, 19 Apr 2010.
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And then there was the ever-feuding Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, who transformed beauty salons from places considered the moral equivalent of brothels to palaces of opulence and style.
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