Asos Names Law Roach ‘Stylist in Residence’
Online fashion retailer Asos has brought on celebrity stylist Law Roach to bring his creative lens and styling approach to its campaigns and recently relaunched magazine.
cosmetics
Beauty
Why It’s So Hard for Luxury Brands to Align Fashion and Beauty Strategy
Crafting a coherent identity across fashion and beauty — which operate on different timelines, often serve different audiences and are managed by different companies — is a difficult task, especially in the wake of a designer transition.
Why It’s So Hard for Luxury Brands to Align Fashion and Beauty Strategy
Crafting a coherent identity across fashion and beauty — which operate on different timelines, often serve different audiences and are managed by different companies — is a difficult task, especially in the wake of a designer transition.
Beauty
It’s Time to Think Bigger Than Clean Beauty
Beauty retailers have the power to set new trends. Why are they all still so fixated on the last one?
It’s Time to Think Bigger Than Clean Beauty
Beauty retailers have the power to set new trends. Why are they all still so fixated on the last one?
Beauty
What Happens When the Menstrual Cycle Meets the Beauty Aisle
An array of emerging brands are attempting to glamourise and destigmatise everything from periods to hot flashes.
What Happens When the Menstrual Cycle Meets the Beauty Aisle
An array of emerging brands are attempting to glamourise and destigmatise everything from periods to hot flashes.
Beauty
How to Decode Gen-Z’s Evolving Relationship With Beauty
The State of Fashion: Beauty explores why outsized influence of today’s teens and twentysomethings over consumer industries mean beauty brands face a fast-changing challenge to adapt their businesses — from marketing to pricing strategies — to remain attractive to this hugely discerning cohort.
How to Decode Gen-Z’s Evolving Relationship With Beauty
The State of Fashion: Beauty explores why outsized influence of today’s teens and twentysomethings over consumer industries mean beauty brands face a fast-changing challenge to adapt their businesses — from marketing to pricing strategies — to remain attractive to this hugely discerning cohort.
Partner Content
Unilever Prestige’s CEO on Unlocking Growth in Beauty
At the inaugural The Business of Beauty Global Forum in Napa Valley, BoF sat down with Unilever Prestige CEO Vasiliki Petrou to discover why she believes new media channels, more immersive content and a laser focus on customer experience are critical to unlocking future growth in the beauty industry.
Unilever Prestige’s CEO on Unlocking Growth in Beauty
At the inaugural The Business of Beauty Global Forum in Napa Valley, BoF sat down with Unilever Prestige CEO Vasiliki Petrou to discover why she believes new media channels, more immersive content and a laser focus on customer experience are critical to unlocking future growth in the beauty industry.
Marketing
The Future of Performance Marketing
Some marketing experts predicted an exodus from social media as costs rose and effectiveness fell. But instead of leaving, brands got smarter about how they spend their marketing dollars.
The Future of Performance Marketing
Some marketing experts predicted an exodus from social media as costs rose and effectiveness fell. But instead of leaving, brands got smarter about how they spend their marketing dollars.
Beauty
Ulta Beauty’s Merchandising Chief Looks Inside a Big Bet on Wellness
Monica Arnaudo shares her thoughts in The State of Fashion: Beauty on how the beauty industry will increasingly prioritise mixing products and services that emphasise the mind, body, spirit and “feeling good” into daily routines.
Ulta Beauty’s Merchandising Chief Looks Inside a Big Bet on Wellness
Monica Arnaudo shares her thoughts in The State of Fashion: Beauty on how the beauty industry will increasingly prioritise mixing products and services that emphasise the mind, body, spirit and “feeling good” into daily routines.
Beauty
Why Beauty Brands Want a Bigger Piece of the $1.5 Trillion Wellness Pie
The State of Fashion: Beauty finds that brands have a growing opportunity to tap into emerging wellness subcategories — from sleep to sexual intimacy to ingestible beauty — by upgrading existing products or expanding portfolios, provided they do so with credibility and authenticity.
Why Beauty Brands Want a Bigger Piece of the $1.5 Trillion Wellness Pie
The State of Fashion: Beauty finds that brands have a growing opportunity to tap into emerging wellness subcategories — from sleep to sexual intimacy to ingestible beauty — by upgrading existing products or expanding portfolios, provided they do so with credibility and authenticity.
Beauty
Creating Hotel Amenities for the Post-Pandemic Era
Rising room rates have prompted hotel owners to raise the bar on travel-sized toiletries as the industry contends with changing realities, like the move away from single-use plastics.
Creating Hotel Amenities for the Post-Pandemic Era
Rising room rates have prompted hotel owners to raise the bar on travel-sized toiletries as the industry contends with changing realities, like the move away from single-use plastics.
Beauty
Black Beauty Brands Chart Their Next Chapter of Growth
While 2020′s racial reckoning promised sweeping industry change, progress has been slow. Today, Black beauty brands are hoping to court their consumers in more creative ways.
Black Beauty Brands Chart Their Next Chapter of Growth
While 2020′s racial reckoning promised sweeping industry change, progress has been slow. Today, Black beauty brands are hoping to court their consumers in more creative ways.
China
Can China’s Cosmetics Giant Florasis Crack America?
The brand known for its traditional and ornate Chinese aesthetic will be one of the first major C-beauty players to go global when it touches down in the US and Japan later this year.
Can China’s Cosmetics Giant Florasis Crack America?
The brand known for its traditional and ornate Chinese aesthetic will be one of the first major C-beauty players to go global when it touches down in the US and Japan later this year.
Beauty
The Changing Shape of Beauty M&A
Beauty megadeals may be few and far between over the near term, but M&A will still be critical for buyers and sellers seeking growth, innovation and competitive product portfolios, reports The State of Fashion: Beauty.
The Changing Shape of Beauty M&A
Beauty megadeals may be few and far between over the near term, but M&A will still be critical for buyers and sellers seeking growth, innovation and competitive product portfolios, reports The State of Fashion: Beauty.
The News in Brief
Boohoo’s New Chairman Stirs Controversy as Broker Drops Coverage
The online clothing retailer, which rebranded as Debenhams Group last year, said Friday that Iain McDonald had taken over from Tim Morris with immediate effect in a move aimed at ‘rebuilding equity value.’
Luxury Perfume Line Roja London Acquired by Extravaganza Beauty
Master perfumer and founder Roja Dove will remain with the brand in a new consultancy role.
UK Retail Sales Bounce Back With 0.5% Gain in August
Warm weather and a brighter national mood helped lift spending on clothing and household goods despite rising energy bills.
EssilorLuxottica Gets Rare Sell Call Amid Stock Slump, AI Glasses Concerns
Shares in the eyewear giant, one of Europe's best-rated blue chips, have dropped 55 percent since November, while concerns are mounting over slowing growth and privacy issues for its AI glasses with Meta.
Olaplex Names New CEO
Christoph Kaul will succeed Amanda Baldwin, who led the hair care label through its acquisition by Henkel earlier this year.
Perelel Expands C-Suite, Tapping Rare Beauty’s CMO
Known for its prenatal vitamins, the wellness label has hired Rare Beauty's Ashley Murphy as its chief marketing officer, while Anjelika Temple moves into the chief creative officer role.
Swiss Watch Exports Grow for Fourth Month, Overcoming US Slump
Exports in August were buoyed by China and Japan, despite a sharp decline in shipments to the US.