17-505: [REDACTED] Look up lauter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lauter may refer to: People [ edit ] Lauter (surname) Places [ edit ] Lauter, Saxony , town in the district of Aue-Schwarzenberg, Saxony, Germany Lauter, Bavaria , village in the district of Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany Rivers [ edit ] Lauter (Baunach) , tributary to
34-489: A perfume . Instead of using French perfumes by the drop behind each ear, women began using Youth-Dew by the bottle in their bath water. In the first year, it sold 50,000 bottles; by 1984, the figure had risen to 150 million. Lauder was the subject of a 1985 TV documentary, Estée Lauder: The Sweet Smell of Success . Explaining her success, she said, "I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard." Lauder received
51-550: A biography, Estée Lauder: Beyond the Magic (1985) by Lee Israel . Her New York Times obituary observed "she was a New Yorker and not an aristocrat at all", notwithstanding "the mythmaking that is so much of the magic of the beauty industry". Her "favourite story was that she had been brought up by her Viennese mother in fashionable Flushing, Long Island, in a sumptuous home with stables, a chauffeured car and an Italian nurse." In actuality, her mother Rose emigrated from Hungary to
68-756: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Lauter (surname) Lauter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ants Lauter (1894–1973), Estonian actor Ed Lauter (1938–2013), American actor Estée Lauder (person) (1906–2004; originally Lauter ), American businesswoman Harry Lauter (1914–1990), American actor Kristin Lauter (born 1969), American mathematician and cryptographer Margarete Lauter (1925–2004), German art dealer Rolf Lauter (born 1952), German art historian and curator [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
85-446: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Est%C3%A9e Lauder (person) Estée Lauder ( / ˈ ɛ s t eɪ ˈ l ɔː d ər / EST -ay LAW -dər ; née Josephine Esther Mentzer ; July 1, 1908 – April 24, 2004) was an American businesswoman. She co-founded her eponymous cosmetics company with her husband, Joseph Lauter (later Lauder). Lauder was the only woman on Time magazine's 1998 list of
102-419: The surname Lauter . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lauter_(surname)&oldid=1191492037 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
119-552: The 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20th century. Lauder was born Josephine Esther Mentzer in Corona, Queens , New York City, the second child born to Rose Schotz and Max Mentzer. Her parents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants. Her maternal grandmother was from Sátoraljaújhely and her maternal grandfather was from Gelle (now Holice , Slovakia ), while her father had Czech-Jewish ancestry. Lauder's claims of descent from European aristocracy were discredited in
136-1025: The Baunach in Bavaria, Germany Lauter (Blau) , tributary to the Blau in Baden-Württemberg, Germany Lauter (Danube) , or "Große Lauter", tributary to the Danube in Baden-Württemberg, Germany Lauter (Fils) , tributary to the Fils in Baden-Württemberg, Germany Lauter (Glan) , or "Waldlauter", tributary to the Glan in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Lauter (Hasel) , tributary to the Hasel in Thuringia, Germany Lauter (Itz) , tributary to
153-736: The Chevalier ( Knight ) class of the Legion of Honour from the Consul General of France, Gerard Causer, on January 16, 1978. She was the first woman to receive this honor. She was inducted to the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1988. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004. Estée met Joseph Lauter when she was in her early twenties. On January 15, 1930, they married. Their surname
170-793: The Itz in Bavaria, Germany Lauter (Murr) , tributary to the Murr in Baden-Württemberg, Germany Lauter (Neckar) , tributary to the Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, Germany Lauter (Rhine) , or "Wieslauter", tributary to the Rhine in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, and in Alsace, France Lauter (Odenwald) , tributary of the Rhine in Hesse, Germany, springs in the Odenwald Lauter (Schlitz) , tributary to
187-658: The Schlitz in Hesse, Germany See also [ edit ] Lauder (disambiguation) Lautering , process in brewing beer Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Lauter . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lauter&oldid=864906701 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732771942691204-541: The United States in 1898 with her five children at the time to join her first husband, Abraham Rosenthal. In 1905, Rose married Max Mentzer, a shopkeeper who had also immigrated to the United States in the 1890s. When their daughter was born, they wanted to name her Eszti , the diminutive form of the Hungarian first name Eszter, after her mother's favorite Hungarian aunt, but decided at the last minute to keep
221-534: The family's hardware store , where she got her first taste of business, entrepreneurship , and what it takes to be a successful retailer . Her childhood dream was to become an actress with her "name in lights, flowers and handsome men". When Lauder grew older, she agreed to help her uncle, Dr. John Schotz, with his business. Schotz was a chemist, and his company, New Way Laboratories, sold beauty products such as creams, lotions , rouge , and fragrances. She became more interested in his business than her father's. She
238-451: The name "Josephine", which they had agreed upon. However, the baby's nickname became "Estee", the name she would grow up using and responding to. Eventually, when she launched her perfume empire with her husband, she added an accent mark to make her name look French and began pronouncing it the way her father had in his Hungarian accent. Lauder spent much of her childhood trying to make ends meet. Like most of her eight siblings, she worked at
255-547: Was fascinated watching her uncle create his products. He also taught her how to wash her face and do facial massages. After graduating from Newtown High School in Elmhurst, Queens , New York, she focused on her uncle's business. Lauder named one of her uncle's blends Super Rich All-Purpose Cream, and began selling the preparation to her friends. She sold creams like Six-In-One cold cream and Dr. Schotz's Viennese Cream to beauty shops, beach clubs and resorts. One day, as she
272-467: Was getting her hair done at the House of Ash Blondes, the salon's owner Florence Morris asked Lauder about her perfect skin. Soon, Estée returned to the beauty parlor to hand out four of her uncle's creams and demonstrate their use. Morris was so impressed that she asked Lauder to sell her products at Morris's new salon. In 1953, Lauder introduced her first fragrance, Youth-Dew, a bath oil that doubled as
289-452: Was later changed from Lauter to Lauder. Their first child, Leonard , was born March 19, 1933. The couple separated then divorced in 1939 and she moved to Florida, but they remarried in 1942. Their second son, Ronald , was born in 1944. Estée and Joseph Lauder remained married until his death in 1983, and she later regretted her divorce, saying that she married young and assumed that she had missed out on life but soon found out that she had
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