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UMP party, 249

Union de Défense Commerçants et Artisans, 251

Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, 182

utopianism, 65–77, 80

Valaze (face cream), 12–13

Valentine paint factory, 44, 58, 59, 91, 113, 115

Vanity Fair
, 27, 34, 224

Veil, Jean, 190

Verne, Jules, 66

Vichy regime, 91, 96, 111
n
, 132, 136, 166
n
, 175

Jewish deportations and, 117, 118, 119–21

Victorian Britain, 198–99, 200, 248

Vie et morts de Jean Moulin
(Péan), 134

Vodianova, Natalia, 245
n

Vogue
, 1, 27, 28, 29, 221–22

Vogue
, British, 105–6

von Furstenberg, Diane, 241, 245
n

Voronoff, Serge, 32–33

Votre Beauté
(Schueller magazine), 44, 83, 104

editorial policy of, 71–72

Mitterrand column for, 136–37, 168
n

Occupation and, 106–9

wage theories, 68–70, 73, 77, 103, 123

Waitzfelder, Monica, 187–90, 191

Walker, Liz, 202, 208

Walker, Madam C. J., 216

Wells, H. G., 66, 80, 81, 86

Winslet, Kate, 224

Wintour, Anna, 221–22

Wisner, M., 59

Woman’s Home Companion
, 194
n

women, 196–200

bobbed hair and, 60–61

employment of, 9, 104, 146, 210

empowerment of, 3, 24, 26, 225, 248, 253

as entrepreneurs, 3, 7–11, 18–20, 25, 196–97, 216, 227

independence symbols, 26, 61

Nazis and, 102, 106

suffrage marches, 26, 201

thinness and fitness of, 72

traditional expectations for, 5–6, 20, 74–75, 76, 117, 126, 199, 210, 226, 229

See also
beauty, ideals of; cosmetics; face cream

World War I, 32, 56–57, 64, 76, 77, 85, 141, 204

Schueller’s service in, 49, 55–56, 67

World War II, 64, 83, 100, 117, 136, 140–42, 204

cosmetics and toiletries and, 104–5, 228–29

French vulnerability and, 79, 84–85, 128, 129

German defeats and, 114, 132–33, 159

See also
collaboration; Occupation

xenophobia, 88–89

Yellow Book
(magazine), 21–22

Yiddish, 5, 6, 20, 141

Youth Code skin cream, 202

YouTube, 224

Zaoui, Michel, 190

Zviak, Charles, 150

About the Author

R
UTH
B
RANDON
is a cultural historian and
biographer. She has also written five detective stories and two literary novels.
Brandon lives in London with her husband, art historian Philip Steadman.

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Credits

Jacket photograph © Getty Images

Jacket design by Archie Ferguson

UGLY BEAUTY
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EPub Edition February 2011 ISBN: 9780062041562

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