Over the Top : Helena Rubinstein, Extraordinary Style, Beauty, Art, Fashion, ...

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Seller: jf33180 ✉️ (549) 100%, Location: Miami, Florida, US, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 274677394225 Over the Top : Helena Rubinstein, Extraordinary Style, Beauty, Art, Fashion, .... This lavishly illustrated volume opens a window into the world of one of the most extravagant and wide-ranging style-makers of the last century, a pioneer of the cosmetics industry who was also celebrated for the daring and prescience of her art collecting, her decorating, and her personal couture. Four hundred vintage images and a meticulously researched text, including 16 essays by renowned experts in the fields of art and interior design, illuminate and trace the public and private lives of Helena Rubinstein. Rubinstein's bold and influential flair for decor - sleekly modern at times, and at other times a wildly eclectic sampling from different eras - was showcased globally in her beauty salons and in her glamorous residences in New York, Paris, and the South of France. An astute patron, she invested in artworks by the luminaries of Parisian bohemia just as they began their ascent. Her vast collection included tapestries by Picasso and Rouault, paintings by Dégas, Dufy, Matisse, Miró, Modigliani, and Monet, as well as murals by Dalí. Her striking instinct for fashion (she wore Worth and Poiret at first, and Balenciaga and St. Laurent 60 years later) and her famous overscaled jewelry kept her in the public eye, decade after decade. Rubinstein's vibrant character, reflected in her personal style and in the interiors of her homes and salons, is captured here in works by photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Brassaï, André Kertész, Dora Maar, and Man Ray - many of which have never before been published. When the flamboyant and decisive Helena Rubinstein died in 1965, at the age of 94, her huge collections were dispersed. But in these pages her world comes alive again: Over the Top is a unique record of the passionate life and style of this self-made mogul and the century she helped define.
  • Condition: Good
  • Condition: dust jacket has some wrinkles and a bit of tape
  • Subject: Art & Photography
  • ISBN: 9780972766104
  • Book Title: Over the Top : Helena Rubinstein, Extraordinary Style, Beauty, Art, Fashion, Design
  • Item Length: 12.2in
  • Publisher: Pointed Leaf Press
  • Publication Year: 2006
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Language: English
  • Item Height: 1in
  • Author: Suzanne Slesin
  • Features: Reprint
  • Genre: Design, Biography & Autobiography
  • Topic: Fashion & Accessories, Business
  • Item Width: 11.5in
  • Item Weight: 68.1 Oz
  • Number of Pages: 216 Pages

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