Stanley Kohlenberg, the veteran beauty executive, died in Florida on Saturday. He was 90 years old.

Kohlenberg was known for working with a few of beauty’s biggest names of the twentieth century, including Charles Revson, Helena Rubinstein. He also helmed Coty U.S. and Calvin Klein Cosmetics, Klein’s first stab at the sweetness business. He was also the chief executive officer of Alfin Inc.

The reason behind death was old age, in accordance with the family. He’s survived by his wife, Ruth Kohlenberg, and their two children, Howard Kohlenberg and Robin Tottenham, in addition to his 4 grandchildren. Arrangements for a service in Latest York will probably be announced at a later date.

Tottenham described her father as a vivid storyteller. “He used to inform a really comic story about Madame Rubinstein. They used to return for marketing meetings round her bed, and once they desired to get something past her that they didn’t think she would love, they closed the windows so it might get stuffy within the room and he or she would go to sleep,” Tottenham said. “After they got here to get her log out, they’d open the window again.

“My father could discuss with anyone, he could entertain anyone, he was quite a showman,” Tottenham continued. “He really was an entrepreneur slightly than simply an executive, that was what distinguished him. He would go and go what he meant to do, then go onto the following thing.”

A 1998 feature in WWD, which detailed the opening of his later enterprise, Le Petit Spa, described him as “certainly one of the cosmetics industry’s most colourful and loquacious executives.

“Kohlenberg has a résumé so well traveled that he can tell tales of working for 2 industry titans: Charles Revson and Helena Rubinstein,” the article continued. “Considered one of his favorite anecdotes involves running into Madame Rubinstein as she angrily shook her fist and yelled across Fifth Avenue within the direction of Revson’s office. The founding father of Revlon had aroused her wrath by introducing a latest skincare line.”

Allan Mottus, industry expert and former WWD reporter, said, “Stanley was not a B-school exec and was an old-fashioned product person equipped to take care of entrepreneurs corresponding to Charles and Esteé [Lauder]. I’ll miss him and the wild and fun business variety of that period.”