Famous Women and Beauty

Here are some inspirational short stories about some very fascinating, famous women.

Anita Roddick

Question: What advantages came from her work? Answer Anita Roddick initiated a revolution in the minds of people of what corporate business in

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Jane Fonda Hairstyles

Jane Fonda Hairstyles. She changed her hairstyles with every shift in her thinking and her life.

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Vivienne Westwood - the designer we love

"My best advice at any age is to try to understand the world we live in. Go to art galleries, museums, concerts, read. This is all relevant to your present life. Get off the consumer treadmill. Spend less and yet have a more interesting life. You get out what you put in."

"Woman and Home", March 2011

Anita Roddick and Fair Trade

Question What did Anita Roddick do for fair trade? Answer "I would rather be measured by how I treat the weaker and frailer communities I trade

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Lady Gaga

She made me feel beautiful, inspired me to be who I wanted to be, not what other people wanted me to be. She made me feel special, important,and made

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Jessica Alba

I have a boyfriend who loves Jessica Alba. I was so depresed about it, that I kept searching information about Jessica Alba on internet every day and night.

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Joan Collins Gallery

Joan Collins gallery, beauty secrets and more.

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Joan Collins Biography

As a small child, Joan already knew she was going to become an actress. Her first debut in Ibsen’s "A Doll's House" at the age of twelve was a disaster. According to Joan, she missed a couple of cues. However, the director’s point of view about her mistakes was different: "We will never have children in our plays again."

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Opera Singer Maria Callas Gallery

Opera singer Maria Callas. Find her best photos here. Listen to Maria Callas

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Grace Kelly Quotes

Grace Kelly quotes. The quotes about life, character, family and beauty by Grace Kelly.

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Grace Kelly Style

Grace Kelly Style embodied the secret of true elegance : simplicity, beauty and functionality combined.

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Mary Kay Ash Quotes

Mary Kay Ash Quotes. Inspirational quotes and sayings by Mary Kay Ash.

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Coco Chanel: timeless remarks about fashion

She invented the classic look, the slick elegance which was later adopted by American business women. Coco Chanel believed in an unmistakable look. This look is not subject to eccentricity and fashion. This look is flattering woman and is easy to wear.

“I hate the old little girls,” said Chanel about women wearing miniskirts. She herself was creating her designs for women, not teenagers. Coco ridiculed the idea of a woman who tries to compete with young girls, using their weapons.

“Haute couture is finished because it’s in the hands of men who don’t like women and can only think of ridiculing women.”

“Men dress like women, women like men, and no one is happy with what he or she has,” said Chanel in her seventies. The biggest mistake for a woman, according to Chanel, is in trying to change herself. Because the real happiness is in not changing.

Natalie Massenet - Internet Entrepreneur

Several women named her their role model. Natalie Massenet, the founder of U. K. based Net-a-Porter.com, the luxury fashion e-trader is certainly a very good example of a business woman and internet entrepreneur.

Natalie Massenet was an editor of Women’s Wear Daily in U. S. before moving to London in 1986, where she joined Tatler. "When I wrote an article telling people to buy something, I always wondered how many of them actually went out and bought it." Now she knows it well. In 2007, Net-a-Porter had 300,000 customers with extra 1,500 coming every month.

Her inspiration came when she left Tatler in 1998 and started working as a freelancer. Natalie went online doing a research, and understood where the weak points of the internet were. The internet community at that time was dominated by men, and there were only few American fashion brands offered online, which were not available for shipment outside the U. S. Net-a-Porter was founded to cover the market gap which existed both online and offline.

"It was an obvious problem in the fashion industry. All the various media were telling women about what this season’s look is but when it came to distribution, not everyone can get to a designer’s boutique. Even those who do live in a major city don’t always have the time to go out shopping, much as they’d love to. So, Net-a-Porter was formed because the media was creating the thirst for designer clothing that we didn’t think was being met."
- Natalie Massenet.

The team of Net-a-Porter was an all-women team, and they created the service based on their vision of how they wanted it to be. The initial website offered 35 top fashion brands.

The website Net-a-Porter is targeting an international audience. The website offers the next season fashion instead of the traditional web approach of offering discount fashion articles. The business concept is very straight-forward: it appeals to a consumer who is ready to pay good money for luxury. The typical client of Net-a-Porter is a woman who is brand oriented, and doesn’t mind spending money online on a favorite brand. The website offers deliveries with all taxes and duties pre-paid all over the world, and the customer care is said to exceed all expectations.

From the very beginning, however, the idea of Net-a-Porter was not limited with an ambition to sell high fashion items around the world. Net-a-Porter has a look of a luxury online magazine, where visitor can read fashion articles, get fashion tips and see the latest fashion collections online.

Net-a-Porter today has grown from five persons to over 100. It ships its products to more than 50 countries, and the customer only pays the price indicated on the site.

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Learn to be ignorant from Elsa Schiaparelli

She was one of the most successful fashion designers of all times. Even though her designs were often compared with the designs of Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli followed her own unique path. Her highly artistic personality, appearance and originality in everything she did, made her the international celebrity, comparable only to the phenomenon of Coco Chanel.

"Shocking Life. The Autobiography of Elsa Schiaparelli" is the source of wisdom and tips for a woman who wants to succeed. One of the most shocking Aha’s of this book is the confession of the author that she decidedly did not know anything about dressmaking. Instinctively she felt that this ignorance would pay off. She had a courage of a person who had nothing to loose, blind and without limit. She had no capital, no superiors (several fashion houses had refused to give her a job). The few principles about clothes she learned, were made by herself.

Although her ignorance looks almost shocking in the highly professional world of today, there is a certain pattern to be seen.

If you are passionate about something – go for it instead of learning it.

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Maha Al-Ghunaim. Being a Leader

Maha is a mother of four. Like many other business women, she knows the challenges of balancing family with work. In 1998, she started Global Investment House, the Kuwait-based investment company. Maha Al-Ghunaim has succeeded in making Global Investment House one of the most successful financial institutions in the region. Forbes Magazine listed her in “The 100 Most Powerful Women in the World”.

Her advice to other women?

"My advice to women is to emphasize networking…A significant network of relations is a prelude to prominence; not having one will make you a soldier, but never a general."

- Maha Al-Ghunaim.

Oprah Winfrey and the secret of her success

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“You become what you believe – not what you wish or want but what you truly believe. ” - Oprah Winfrey On some life stage each of us understands that this universal wisdom is true. Oprah is a billionaire and one of the most influential women in the world, known to virtually anyone on the planet. Her name has become almost a brand. To her – it is her own life, that consisted of making choices. The secret of her success? – She always made her choices based on her beliefs.

The moment of truth – Estee Lauder

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Josephine Esther Mentzer, known to the world as Estee Lauder, was born on July 1, 1908 in a Jewish family in Corona, Queens. She was the ninth child in a family. Her dreams about building up her beauty empire were born when Estee was twelve-years-old. Her first and the most important career mentor was her uncle John Schotz, immigrant chemist who had a laboratory for making fragrances. He encouraged Estee in her dream to make women glamorous. He taught her to use oils to cleanse and moisten the skin, instead of using soap and water. "In every life there is a moment – an event or a realization – that changes that life irrevocably. If the change is to be a happy one, one must recognize the moment and seize it without delay, " was the advice of Estee Lauder to women.

The power of being yourself – Coco Chanel

"Women want to change; they’re wrong. I’m for happiness, and happiness consists of not changing, " said Coco Chanel.

Being and staying yourself in everything you do and everything you wear, requires a certain degree of integrity. Finding an identity in style is nothing more than exploring your own personality and femininity and giving it the right outing in clothes.

Elizabeth Arden Red Door

Elizabeth Arden red door is an destinctive element of design of Elizabeth Arden salons. Read more about the history of it.

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The biggest mistake of doing things right

Some time ago I heard in the news about a British girl aged 5, who had an IQ of 165. I thought: “I wish I could fly over the time and hear about this girl and what she is doing when she is thirty-years-old.”

I was a very capable (some said “talented”) young musician when I was a young girl. I loved music and I dreamed about a wonderful career I would make. To save time for the reader, I should say I never became a musician. Why? Because I thought at that time that opinion of other people about myself was very important. I wanted the whole world to say: “Oh, she does have a talent”, but it did not happen. At some point of time, someone important said that she did not see any special talents in me at all. I broke and I quit. I thought there was no place in the world of music for those who do not have a talent.

Speaking about famous women, they were in fact natural outsiders, rebels who did not accept verdicts. Sophia Loren – an actress like no one else, Princess Diana – a princess who made a difference, Anita Roddick – an entrepreneur who founded her business with principles…

Read their biographies and learn to let yourself be different.

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Diane von Furstenberg - doing something you enjoy

Diane von Furstenberg, the famous fashion designer, started her career of an entrepreneur when she launched her little wrap dress, which became very famous in early 1970s. Her business quickly expanded, and her entrepreneurial success and her title of a princess made her an international celebrity.

She made and lost millions, and did it all on her own. However, in the middle of her success she sold her companies and licensed her name. She admitted that she disliked the whole process of being a manager.

" I think I know what women want and I ’ve got a very good sense of design and can create what they want. That ’s why all I have now in the way of a business organization is my design studio, so I ’m really nothing but a glorified consultant. "
- Diane von Furstenberg

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It’s all about attitude

Rita Moreno, the Academy Award winning actress, a singer and dancer, aged 77, says the following about her attitude to aging:

"People tell me I look good these days, I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five... To me, age is just a number."

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One Person Can Do a Lot

The biggest illusion in life is seeing obstacles that either not really exist, or are not really difficult to overcome as we think. During our lives we have thousands of brilliant ideas, but only for a small part of them we would follow through.

Helen Thomas, the legend of American journalism, is an example of a woman who had a dream and who lived it.

"I certainly never expected to be at the White House. I just wanted to be a reporter... I didn’t know women weren’t supposed to be hired as journalists," she said.

Helen Thomas was born in August 4, 1920, in a family of Lebanese immigrants from Tripoli. She has covered every president of America since John F. Kennedy. She had reported for the United Press International until she was 79. At present she works as a columnist for Hearst News Service.

"I still have goals... I want to be a good reporter. You know, you are only as good as your last story, " she says.

Quotes from "Hard Won Wisdom", Fawn Germer

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Sophia Loren Quotes

The quotes and sayings by Sophia Loren: about success, happiness and relationship. Also the quotes about her.

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Be Different to Succeed – An Advice from Anita Roddick

"Every element of our success was really down to the fact that I had no money. "
– Anita Roddick, Founder of the Body Shop

Anita Roddick often said that the entrepreneurs like her would have been murdered for their ideas in a business school. She was convinced that entrepreneurship is mostly about being and thinking as an outsider, something you cannot learn.

Her advice for a starting entrepreneur was:

• to set all your skills and insight on an idea
• do a research and see what a competition is doing, and especially what your competition does not have;
• become an entrepreneur who will to act and promote a product or service as being different.

Chanel Number 5

Find here the real story of Chanel Number 5.

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Coco Chanel Biography in Business

Coco Chanel biography in business. The story of one of the most famous women entrepreneurs. The secret of her success in fashion and in business.

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Jacqueline Kennedy Biography

Jacqueline Kennedy Biography: her most important life stages, accomplishments and quotes.

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Jackie Kennedy Photos

Jackie Kennedy photos: the photo gallery of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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Princess Diana biography in fashion

Princess Diana biography in fashion. Princess Diana was one of the most stylish famous women of our time. Read about her transformation into the style and beauty icon.

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