CHICAGO (CN) - The Barbizon School dupes aspiring models for thousands of dollars in tuition by falsely promising "print, television, commercials and film" work at $50 to $150 per hour or more through ...

On the corner of East Sixty-third Street and Lexington Avenue, in a building where the apartments sell for anywhere from one million to thirteen million dollars, there is a woman who pays around a ...

In a letter home to her mother, Plath described her “darlingest single” on the hotel’s fifteenth floor, with its “wall-to-wall rug, pale beige walls, dark green bedspread with rose-pattern ruffle, ...

She sat by the window, watching the world rumble by as the train barreled toward New York City. In her purse was $60 from her father, a man of stiff Iowa breeding who worked at the family lumber ...

The Barbizon Hotel for Women, currently known as Barbizon 63, was known for giving women a safe (and chaste!) retreat right in the big, bad Big Apple (at 140 East 63rd Street, to be exact). The ...

Ambitious young women of the 20th-century flocked to the intersection of Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street, to The Barbizon Hotel, where they could live out the ultimate New York City dream of ...

Barbizon Modeling offers modeling, acting and personal development coaching and classes for teens and preteens. The company also leverages its industry connections to help graduates with ...

Discover the amenities available to women of a certain set eager to occupy the Barbizon’s rooms. Ponder why Sylvia Plath tossed her carefully curated wardrobe off the roof of the Barbizon. Experience ...

Today the Tampa-based Barbizon USA runs 125 Barbizon schools across the country for acting, modeling and personal development for young people. Former Times reporter The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is ...

For a small-town American girl during the 40s and 50s, there was no address more glamorous than New York's 'women only' Barbizon Hotel. Described as a 'charm school dormitory,' it gave sanctuary to a ...