Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl is a glittering, fictionalized portrait of Estée Lauder’s rise during the golden age of American beauty. Set against the backdrop of mid‑century New York, the novel blends ambition, glamour, reinvention, and the intoxicating world of cosmetics. Rosen’s storytelling is lush and atmospheric, capturing the energy of Fifth Avenue, the elegance ofContinue reading “Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl by Renee Rosen”
Tag Archives: beauty history
Part 1: 1970s Hair Icons: Farrah, Cher, Bo Derek
The 1970s were a decade defined by movement, bodies in motion, hair in motion, a culture in motion. Beauty shifted away from the sculpted, set styles of the 1960s and toward something freer, more athletic, more sun‑lit. Hair became a symbol of lifestyle, identity, and attitude. And at the centre of this transformation were threeContinue reading “Part 1: 1970s Hair Icons: Farrah, Cher, Bo Derek”
1970s Beauty: The Era of Tanning + Dieting
The 1970s marked a dramatic shift in American beauty culture. Gone were the powdered faces and sculpted bouffants of the 1960s. In their place emerged a new ideal: sun‑kissed skin, athletic bodies and a lifestyle built around tanning, dieting and California‑coast vitality. Beauty was no longer something applied — it was something lived. This decadeContinue reading “1970s Beauty: The Era of Tanning + Dieting”
The night Yves Saint Laurent Shocked Paris, and Re-wrote the Rules of Fashion w/ His 1971 Scandal Collection
On January 29, 1971, little did Yves Saint Laurent knew, he would be walking into the history books — and at the exact same time, straight into a firestorm. His Spring/Summer haute couture show, later known simply as “The Scandal Collection,” was unlike anything Paris had ever seen. It wasn’t elegant. It wasn’t polite. ItContinue reading “The night Yves Saint Laurent Shocked Paris, and Re-wrote the Rules of Fashion w/ His 1971 Scandal Collection”
House of Dior Fires Yves Saint Laurent: The Scandal That Shook Paris Fashion (Part One)
Imagine going to bed in Paris, knowing or at the very least thinking everything was right in the world, in Paris, in fashion, only to wake up to startling news. It was the kind of headline that didn’t nor should it belong in the world of couture — a world built on elegance and carefullyContinue reading “House of Dior Fires Yves Saint Laurent: The Scandal That Shook Paris Fashion (Part One)”
Second Empire Beauty + Empress Eugénie (1850s–1870s): French Beauty History
French beauty during the Second Empire was defined by spectacle — a world where appearance became a form of political theatre. No figure embodied this more fully than Empress Eugénie, whose influence shaped beauty culture across Europe. Her signature look — the luminous complexion, the smooth centre‑parted hair, the soft oval silhouette — became theContinue reading “Second Empire Beauty + Empress Eugénie (1850s–1870s): French Beauty History”
