Visitors view a wall of Picasso drawings during a press preview of the exhibition “Helena Rubinstein: Beauty is Power,” Tuesday Oct. 28, 2014 at the Jewish Museum in New York. Also known as Madame, ...

Beauty is power and Madame Helena Rubinstein knew just what she was dispensing. Like all enchantments, beauty stirs up passions, its secrets can emancipate or enslave. Like power, beauty can be ...

The queen of the U.S. beauty business’ billion-dollar-a-year empire is a short (4 ft. 10 in.), plump woman of 71 with a youthful complexion. When she is at work in her eight-story Fifth Avenue salon, ...

This book has been published in conjunction with the exhibition "Helena Rubinstein: Beauty is power", organized by the Jewish Museum, New York, October 31, 2014 - March 22, 2015. Summary This is the ...

1959 photo of Rubinstein at the grand opening of the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion of Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv. Most of the great cosmetics pioneers of the 20 th century were Jews, including ...

NEW YORK Judgmental, autocratic and wholly self-made after fleeing pre-war Poland and the prospect of arranged marriage as a teen, Helena Rubinstein built a cosmetics empire on the notion that beauty ...