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Aerin Lauder on feminism, dressing in her 50s and what her grandmother Estee would think of today's 'alien faces'
Estee Lauder, born Josephine Esther Mentzer in 1906 in Queens, New York, the daughter of Hungarian-Jewish immigrants, is one of those still-dazzling early 20th-century women (think Coco Chanel, Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth Arden) who hoisted themselves up by their perilously fraying bootstraps to become not just hugely wealthy, but through their work and actions, champions of other women. She gravitated towards that genre of East Coast patrician taste that draws on English houses.
