They were style icons of the 1920s and 1930s, among the most elegant figures of Viennese society, and were international celebrities. Their men and lovers bore the magical name Rothschild and represented unimaginable wealth. They were beautiful, exciting, desirable, and outrageously expensive, yet also vulnerable and sometimes even hurtful. Artistic and cosmopolitan, fashion-conscious and extravagant, they displayed remarkable assertiveness and often overshadowed their men. In five brilliant individual portraits, Rothschild expert Roman Sandgruber rescues these strong, emancipated women from oblivion and reveals what being a woman could mean a century ago.