Life

Florence Nightingale Graham, daughter of Scottish-English immigrants, spent its youth in conditions in a town in the Canadian province Ontario. It completed training as the nurse, worked however later than office strength and dentist aid. 1908 pulled it to New York, where she was active as in the Londoner Kosmetikfirma Eleanor Adair. Here it acquired apart from their medical, first cosmetic knowledge and opened to 1910 its first Kosmetiksalon, in whose place today still the principal firm of the company stands. The starting capital borrowed itself it from its brother and could it due to their success still in the same year pay back. At the beginning of sold it with priority creams and face water, it let which manufacture starting from 1914 of own chemists. Later it developed a whole product range and pursued with new products its idea of the total beauty again and again (OF concept totally beauty). In addition also gymnastische exercises, steam cabinet, Massage and when desired also a paraffin bath belonged in their salons. A new fact at the time at that time. It recognized a market gap and based on two of its countryseats beauty farms in the US Federal States Maine and Arizona and made possible for its wealthy customers to be able to be treated during a longer period - including particularly arranged bill of fare.

1915 married it her employee Thomas Jenkins (1875-1970). Probably a fictitious marriage, because allegedly felt it rather drawn to women. In the same year it opened a large salon in the well-known New Yorker shopping street Fifth Avenue. Branches in Washington (D.C.) and Boston and 1922 their first European beauty salon in Paris followed a little later. 1933 it of Thomas Jenkins divorced, compensates it with only 100 dollar and occupies it with a five-year professional disqualification. Its Konkurrentin Helena ruby stone made it at expiration of the term 1939 their managing director. Elizabeth Ardens second marriage 1935 with the Russian prince Michael EH off held only one year.

Their largest hobby was horse racing. It operated extremely successful running universe, which it designated after its maiden name Florence N. Graham. Alone prize moneys brought in for it approximately five million dollar. The University of Syracruse in the US Federal State New York lent their the legal honour doctor title to 1949. 1956 opened it in New York the first beauty salon for men.

At the age of 75 years Elizabeth Arden succumbed to a heart accumulation. It is, although twenty years younger, only scarcely one and a half years after its Rivalin Helena ruby stone did not leave died and children. Their fortune amounted estimations according to on 50 million dollar.

Work

At the time of their death their million-enterprise beside numerous factories covered 220 beauty salons. With only 6,000 dollar of borrowed money developed Elizabeth Arden one to today successful label names.

Literature

• Ernst rehearses: Superwomen 13 - Mode and Kosmetik. Mainz 2002.

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