Word: cosmeticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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One of the most sophisticated of photographers, Avedon would be the last to claim that his pictures are the truth, the whole truth and nothing but. He expects no one to believe the glamour-drenched fantasies he constructs for his fashion pictures. But he also knows that in taking a...
Cosmetic interests are more often reflected in women's rooms than in men's. Jennifer Mathis '87 says, "Girls have more mirrors."
"Shades of Lauder blue are everywhere. Porcelain bowls of French beaded flowers, porcelain birds of jeweled hues, drapes copied from the Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna . . . Oriental carpets resting on Lauder blue carpeting . . . It's very thrilling." Estee Lauder loves her lavish office. She is equally entranced by her three-story...
As this sad biography shows, the perks were lavish but the emotional cost prohibitive. Joan, an upper-middle-class girl from the suburb of Bronxville, N.Y., paid for her real and imagined humiliations by becoming an alcoholic. Much of her story, as told by former Administrative Assistant Marcia Chellis, deals...
Cleopatra, who must have spent hours rimming her eyes with kohl each morning, would no doubt have loved the latest gift of cosmetic surgery: tattooing a thin dark line along the upper and lower lids to augment or replace conventional eyeliner. Since the operation was introduced in the U.S. a...