Wiesbaden (Ernst-Probst-blog) - Helena Rubinstein (probably 1870-1965), the most successful beauty of the world was brilliant, greedy and forgetful. This is the Wiesbaden author Ernst Probst revealed in his pocket book 'Super 13 girls - fashion and cosmetics ". The French artist Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) gave the 1.50 meter tall and plump Polish woman the honorary title of "The Empress of cosmetics". received
When Helena Rubinstein in 1955 in Paris the news of the death of her second husband, she blew her nose in her silk bed sheet and decided not to attend the funeral in New York to fly. "He is dead, why waste all that money?" She said to her secretary Patrick O'Higgins. Many hours later, she telegraphed for half the night fare: "Too sick to travel to."
shone and showed off one hand, Helena Rubinstein, with their wealth, on the other hand, she was very stingy toward others. Jewels, art and jewelry she bought by the dozen and bar with a third volume discount, which they rarely abandoned reluctantly. Her wardrobe consisted mostly of clothing that copied her maid after models of the Paris Haute Couture. The artist Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) said of her: "The distance that separated the Madwoman of Chaillot by Helena Rubinstein, was certainly not greater than the width of a hat. " In interviews
recommended Helena Rubinstein, the best thing a woman could do for her beauty, had a half hour nap. In addition, a woman should never forget to keep themselves straight. A straight spine is the sign of good upbringing. She also said that not all women would suffer from constipation and therefore withered skin, if they would walk more. Beauty can not come from without, not from the make-up that you hang up. Beauty is hard work. In an interview she once had the courage to admit that they themselves use only water and soap.
The process of production in the cosmetics empire Helena Rubinstein, who achieved their best times in a year the equivalent of one half billion marks, was well rationalized. The total requirement of cream, lotion and lotions for France, Scandinavia and the Benelux countries in 1964 was cooked by four workers in huge copper kettles. The powder for this huge consumer market produced a machine system with a single Operator.
"Madame spoke the language very well - English, French, Yiddish, Polish itself - but that did not prevent them to be brilliant," said a friend of Helena Rubinstein. About people they often spoke with abandonment of their family name. Instead, they spoke of "the man who died, the woman" or "the one who always comes to the screen. This they did because they could remember a name.
Even in old age the skin by Helena Rubinstein was still smooth and clean. It operated regularly exercise and body care, to be fit for their work. With age she was interested only for fragrances.
A Pocket "Super Women 13 - Fashion and Beauty" is published in "GRIN for academic texts and the Internet address http://www.grin.com/e-book/133851/superfrauen-13-mode-und Cosmetics as a printed paperback or as an electronic e-Book PDF format.
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