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alix earle
Rachel Strugatz July 1, 2026
As we near the halfway point of 2026, Rachel Strugatz answers readers’ burning questions about Rihanna’s next move, the Armani ownership sweepstakes, Estée Lauder’s M&A appetite, and more.
Iskra Lawrence
Rachel Strugatz & Malique Morris June 26, 2026
Beauty’s most successful serial entrepreneur has a third sale in as many years brewing. Plus: How real is the skinny jean revival?
Rihanna fenty beauty
Rachel Strugatz June 24, 2026
The once white-hot, Rihanna-fronted beauty brand has cooled significantly, and co-owner LVMH is shopping its stake. As the rules of celebrity beauty lines keep changing, and the competition mounts, where does Fenty’s future lie?
glossier
Rachel Strugatz June 17, 2026
C.E.O. Colin Walsh inherited a beauty unicorn in retreat and is now doing the unglamorous work of turning Glossier back into a business. But can the brand that epitomized Millennial beauty survive previous management’s mistakes?


jacob elordi chanel
Rachel Strugatz June 10, 2026
Chanel insiders are wondering when—and how—the Matthieu Blazy effect will start to bolster the brand’s skincare and makeup categories.
Stephane de La Faverie
Rachel Strugatz June 3, 2026
Now that ELC’s spring flirtation with Puig is over, investors would very much like it to get back to the long-promised turnaround. But finding buyers for its struggling brands is easier said than done. Plus, why the real narrative on the merger talks just won’t go away.
Stephane de La Faverie
Rachel Strugatz May 27, 2026
News, notes, finger-pointing, and post-deal recriminations stemming from the failed combination of The Estée Lauder Companies and Puig.
bad bunny zara
Rachel Strugatz & Malique Morris May 22, 2026
With the beauty megamerger now dead on arrival, what led to its demise? Plus, an actually good celebrity fashion collab.


Blake Lively met gala 2026
Rachel Strugatz May 20, 2026
After the Baldonigate fallout, Blake Lively’s briefly hot Target haircare line, Blake Brown, is circling the drain—and its Italian partners want out. Finding a new operator may not be easy.
Bobbi Brown Jones Road
Rachel Strugatz May 13, 2026
A decade after exiting her original namesake brand, Brown has achieved an extraordinary second round of success with Jones Road without private equity, Ulta, or Sephora. It must be keeping the Estée Lauder Companies executives up at night.
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