Marilyn Miglin was a model turned cosmetics entrepreneur well-known for her Oak Street salon and regular appearances on the Home Shopping Network. She died March 14 at the age of 83.
Marilyn Miglin was a model turned cosmetics entrepreneur well-known for her Oak Street salon and regular appearances on the Home Shopping Network.
Miglin attended Northwestern University on a math scholarship and continued dancing, participating in the chorus at the famous Chez Paree nightclub. After college, she toured for two years with Jimmy Durante’s troupe. “She was just an extraordinary woman,” said socialite, author and public relations guru Donna “Sugar” Rautbord. “Pheromone became an immediate hit, and it went into Saks and Field’s, which is unheard of. People couldn’t believe that somebody could stay in Chicago and from their little laboratory and place on Oak Street be in competition with all the big .”
Marilyn Miglin, right, at an appearance promoting her new fragrance at Marshall Field's, puts some lotion on the hands of Ann Scavo of Schaumburg in April 1998.“She believed the beauty business was another way, another approach to women’s empowerment,” Rautbord said. “If nothing more, it gave them the courage and the self-respect to go out and do as they wanted to do in life.”
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