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olivier rousteing balmain beauty
Rachel Strugatz October 2, 2024
Estée Lauder’s latest stab at innovation is Balmain Beauty, a new partnership that attempts to revive a legacy brand and has debuted with an exceedingly large portfolio of products. Could it work? Well, it’s not Cartier, but it kinda has to.
blake lively
Rachel Strugatz September 25, 2024
News and notes on Blake Brown Beauty, Blake Lively’s new haircare baby—the hot launch, sure, but also the brutal hangover… and other related headaches.
emily weiss
Rachel Strugatz September 18, 2024
Emily Weiss’s $2 billion beauty brand is launching not one but two new perfumes this autumn, perhaps hoping that another dose of lightning in the bottle could seduce that long-awaited deep-pocketed suitor.
Rihanna fenty beauty sephora
Rachel Strugatz & Lauren Sherman September 11, 2024
A dip into the recent plot twists of the nearly half-trillion-dollar beauty industry: Inside LVMH’s Givenchy fumble, the pivot away from “clean beauty,” the Sephora Industrial Complex, and the Drunk Elephant-ization of niche.


gwen stefani blake lively lady gaga
Rachel Strugatz September 4, 2024
News, notes, and dish from the evolving front lines of the celebrity beauty sub-industry: Blake Lively’s drama-filled debut, Lady Gaga’s surprise comeback, and Gwen Stefani’s doubtful shelf-life.
Earlier this month, Givenchy released a “new and improved,” talc-free version of Prisme Libre, bowing to the clean beauty trend.
Rachel Strugatz August 28, 2024
Givenchy Beauty’s botched release of a “clean” version of its top-selling product carries a lesson for competitors and a headache for parentco LVMH.
Fabrizio Freda
Rachel Strugatz August 21, 2024
Notes on the accelerated retirement of C.E.O. Fabrizio Freda, the two senior executives following him out the door, and whether Jane Lauder will step into her uncle Leonard’s old job running the family cosmetics empire.
blake lively blake brown
Rachel Strugatz August 14, 2024
Blake Lively is having a moment, and now she’s got a haircare line to prove it. Is the early success of Blake Brown the result of her goofy authenticity, a genius marketing instinct, or both?


Kory Marchisotto
Rachel Strugatz August 7, 2024
How the multibillion-dollar cosmetics kingpin outmaneuvered rivals through savvy marketing (Jennifer Coolidge!), employee equity, and behaving more like a Silicon Valley startup than a New York beauty brand.
Vennette Ho
Rachel Strugatz July 31, 2024
News, notes, updates, and gossip on the beauty industry’s slightly underwhelming, but rapidly ascending, summer of deal-making.
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