Becoming Elizabeth Arden

The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire

Stacy A. Cordery

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Viking Press Inc
03 September 2024

Fashion & society

A sweeping biography of one of the most influential and successful business-women in American history, BECOMING ELIZABETH ARDEN opens the Red Door to a world of wealth, glamor, and the profitable business of beauty

A sweeping biography of one of the most influential and successful business-women in American history, BECOMING ELIZABETH ARDEN opens the Red Door to a world of wealth, glamor, 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 worlds of New York, Hollywood, London, and Paris among her clients. She revolutionized skin care and cosmetics, making it acceptable for all women to embrace glamour and wear makeup-not just actresses and prostitutes. She created a successful international business empire before women gained the vote and at a time when virtually no woman owned or ran a national company. She developed the first luxury spa and insisted on a holistic understanding of health and beauty. Unconventional and driven, Arden fervently believed that every woman could be beautiful.

Acclaimed biographer Stacy Cordery does full justice to one of America's greatest entrepreneurs. Canadian-born Florence Nightingale Graham turned herself into Elizabeth Arden, using her uncanny sense of the possible to take full advantage of everything New York City offered, building her company and becoming one with her brand. In an astounding rags-to-riches tale, Elizabeth Arden came to personify sophistication and refinement. Her hard work and innovation made makeup, fitness, and style not only acceptable but de rigueur. Arden prospered throughout the Depression, reimagined women's needs during two World Wars, and by pioneering new approaches to marketing and advertising, ushered beauty into the modern era. Cordery delivers a compelling picture of a modern CEO whose career provides a model for aspiring businesses to this day.

By: Stacy A. Cordery
Imprint: Viking Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 164mm,
Weight: 762g
ISBN: 9780525559764
ISBN 10: 0525559760
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 03 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire

“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 Weekly