Georgette Klinger
Georgette Klinger · Economics & Business
Skin-care pioneer whose New York salon (1941) prefigured the modern spa industry — the 'Dean of Skin Care'.
28 February 1915, Brno, Moravia (now Czech Republic) — 9 January 2004, New York, United States
New York, United States
Georgette Klinger is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Skin-care pioneer whose New York salon (1941) prefigured the modern spa industry — the 'Dean of Skin Care'.
Born Georgette Eckstein in Brno, she opened her first skin-care salon there in 1938 — and closed it within a year to flee the Nazis with her family. Landing in New York, she borrowed $15,000 and reopened on Madison Avenue in 1941. Her heresy was to treat skin scientifically: individual diagnosis, natural and herbal preparations, no miracle promises. She invented the modern facial as America knows it, pioneered skin care for men and for teenagers, and her nine salons became the acknowledged precursor of the multi-billion-dollar spa industry.
The trade called her the 'Dean of Skin Care'; Lilith magazine, remembering her, recalled her Jewish family's escape from Czechoslovakia.
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Skin-care pioneer whose New York salon (1941) prefigured the modern spa industry — the 'Dean of Skin Care'.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgette_Klinger
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