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Fabrizio Freda
Rachel Strugatz May 8, 2024
A post-post-pandemic comeback for The Estée Lauder Companies hasn’t erased doubts about C.E.O. Fabrizio Freda, his turnaround plan, and another round of layoffs. Could M&A be the answer to get Lauder back in business?
Vennette Ho
Rachel Strugatz May 1, 2024
Vennette Ho, the Aryeh of beauty (Google it), is helping Sarah Gibson Tuttle’s nail brand, Olive & June, explore an exit. It’s the latest sign of a dynamic (and maybe even frothy) market and an ascendant banker pulling the strings.
Gregg Renfrew
Rachel Strugatz April 24, 2024
How Gregg Renfrew wrestled her company back from the supple palms of private equity.
kylie jenner
Rachel Strugatz April 17, 2024
Nearly a decade after her initial success, Kylie Jenner’s brand is out of date and her tactics have been mainstreamed. So what’s a Kardashian to do?


Katherine Power
Rachel Strugatz April 10, 2024
Merit is the latest beauty brand to hire Goldman Sachs to explore an exit—in part because its clever and connected founder, Katherine Power, shorted the D.T.C. trend all along.
Gisele Bundchen Dolce & Gabbana Fragrance
Rachel Strugatz April 3, 2024
These days, perfumes at both the highest end of the market and the lowest are simultaneously booming. We’ve entered the Dupe Era.
emily weiss
Rachel Strugatz March 27, 2024
The proto-millennial beauty brand is now in “deep” conversations about a sale to LVMH, as the French fashion conglomerate eyes Glossier’s expansion into fragrances.
Meghan Markle
Rachel Strugatz March 20, 2024
News and notes on the former royal’s attempt to create her own “edible oils, fats, preserves, spreads and butters” empire. What could possibly go wrong?


emily weiss kyle leahy glossier
Rachel Strugatz March 13, 2024
Glossier, perhaps the most iconic consumer beauty brand of its generation, felt all the feels of startup life: boffo fundraising, a market correction, and recalibrated post-wunderkind success. Now it may finally be ready for its exit.
Summer Fridays Marianna Hewitt Lauren Ireland
Rachel Strugatz March 6, 2024
News and notes on the drama du jour in the beauty salt mines: Summer Fridays’ new banker and Sephora’s new set of “darlings.”
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