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Financial Markets

What Happens When Big Companies Buy Cool Ones

Zalando’s acquisition of Highsnobiety is just the latest in a spate of deals in which a company seeking relevance snapped up a smaller, hipper entity in the hopes of reaching a savvier, often younger, consumer. But does chasing cool ever work?

Financial Markets

What Happens When Big Companies Buy Cool Ones

Zalando’s acquisition of Highsnobiety is just the latest in a spate of deals in which a company seeking relevance snapped up a smaller, hipper entity in the hopes of reaching a savvier, often younger, consumer. But does chasing cool ever work?


Beauty

Farfetch Is Buying Violet Grey: Here’s Why

The luxury fashion platform sees an opportunity in beauty that has eluded many others.

Beauty

Farfetch Is Buying Violet Grey: Here’s Why

The luxury fashion platform sees an opportunity in beauty that has eluded many others.


Beauty

Breaking Down Farfetch’s Big Beauty Play

As the luxury marketplace draws up plans to dive head first into the lucrative beauty category in 2022, a potential tie-up with Violet Grey is just the tip of the iceberg. Will its ambitious strategy work?

Beauty

Breaking Down Farfetch’s Big Beauty Play

As the luxury marketplace draws up plans to dive head first into the lucrative beauty category in 2022, a potential tie-up with Violet Grey is just the tip of the iceberg. Will its ambitious strategy work?


Beauty

Brands Sink Their Teeth Into Oral Care

Start-ups and consumer product giants are reinventing products like toothpaste and mouthwash, hoping a luxury or sustainable twist will nab health-conscious consumers.

Beauty

Brands Sink Their Teeth Into Oral Care

Start-ups and consumer product giants are reinventing products like toothpaste and mouthwash, hoping a luxury or sustainable twist will nab health-conscious consumers.


Beauty

Sex-Care Is the New Self-Care

Lipstick, sheet mask, eye cream… vibrator? For beauty brands, the next big opportunity lies in the $32 billion sexual wellness market. Sarah Brown reports.

Beauty

Sex-Care Is the New Self-Care

Lipstick, sheet mask, eye cream… vibrator? For beauty brands, the next big opportunity lies in the $32 billion sexual wellness market. Sarah Brown reports.


Technology

How Fashion’s Most Talked-About Start-Ups Are Actually Performing

From Rent the Runway to Refinery 29, BoF separates the break-outs from the flameouts.

Technology

How Fashion’s Most Talked-About Start-Ups Are Actually Performing

From Rent the Runway to Refinery 29, BoF separates the break-outs from the flameouts.


Beauty

The Hygge Effect: How Beauty Is Cashing In on Cosy

The movement towards 'all things cosy' is a boon for the beauty industry, argues Sarah Brown.

Beauty

The Hygge Effect: How Beauty Is Cashing In on Cosy

The movement towards 'all things cosy' is a boon for the beauty industry, argues Sarah Brown.