Lindy Woodhead

War Paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden: Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry

by Lindy Woodhead

A fascinating dual biography of the women who founded today's beauty industry

They were both born in the nineteenth century in humble circumstances-Helena Rubinstein in an orthodox Jewish household in Kraków,...

Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge

by Lindy Woodhead

If you lived at Downton Abbey, you shopped at Selfridge’s.

Harry Gordon Selfridge was a charismatic American who, in twenty-five years working at Marshall Field’s in Chicago, rose from lowly stockboy to a...

Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge

by Lindy Woodhead

In 1909 London's first dedicated department store built from scratch opened in a glorious burst of publicity, spearheaded by the largest advertising campaign ever mounted in the British press. In his eponymous...