| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 412 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Introduction. The Business of Beauty -- Part 1. Beauty Imagined -- 1. Scent and Paris -- 2. How Do I Look? -- 3. Cleanliness and Civilization -- Part 2. Beauty Diffused -- 4. Beauty Amid War and Depression -- 5. The Television Age -- 6. Global Ambitions Meet Local Markets -- 7. The Uncertain Identity of Beauty -- Part 3. Beauty Reimagined -- 8. Challenges from New Quarters -- 9. Globalization and Tribalization -- Conclusion: The Dream Machine -- Appendix 1. The Global Beauty Market Over Time -- Appendix 2. World's Largest Beauty Companies by Revenues, 1929-2008 -- Appendix 3. Principal Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestments in the Beauty Industry since 1955 |
| Summary |
The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estée Lauder, LOréal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us. This book provides the first authoritative history of the global beauty industry from its emergence in the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring how todays global giants grew. It shows how successive generations of entrepreneurs built brands which shaped perceptions of beauty, and the business organizations needed to market them. They democratized access to beauty products, once the privilege of elites, but they also defined the gender and ethnic borders of beauty, and itsassociation with a handful of cities, notably Paris and later New York. The result was a homogenization of beauty ideals throughout the world. Today globalization is changing the beauty industry again; its impact can be seen in a range of competing strategies. Global brands have swept into China, Russia, and India, but at the same time, these brands are having to respond to a far greater diversity of cultures and lifestyles as new markets are opened up worldwide. In the twenty first century, beauty is again being re-imagined anew |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cosmetics industry -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Corporate & Business History.
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Cosmetics industry
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Kosmetikindustrie
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Industrie
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Schönheitsideal
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Schönheit
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Geschichte
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Kosmetik.
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Industrie.
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Kosmetikum.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191573026 |
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0191573027 |
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