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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.
tom ford beauty ad
Rachel Strugatz July 24, 2024
The worst-named beauty product in history has become a metaphor for the demise of Tom Ford Beauty.


Tracey Travis
Rachel Strugatz July 17, 2024
The midsummer departure of Estée Lauder’s Tracey Thomas Travis raises some renewed questions about the future of the family-controlled, $23 billion cosmetics company.
gwyneth paltrow goop
Rachel Strugatz July 10, 2024
News and notes on the latest beauty industry chatter: Goop’s brick-and-mortar expansion, and the executive shuffle at Pat McGrath Labs.
Pat McGrath makeup
Rachel Strugatz July 3, 2024
Six years after an eye-popping $1 billion valuation, Pat McGrath Labs is still trying to translate its brilliant but media-shy founder’s magic into commercial potential.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Rachel Strugatz June 19, 2024
Gwyneth Paltrow created, and perfected, the very concept of the celebrity lifestyle brand. Does the actress-entrepreneur-executive have what it takes to pull Goop out of a midlife funk?


estee lauder Fabrizio Freda, William Lauder, Leonard Lauder
Rachel Strugatz June 12, 2024
News and notes on the very drawn out succession planning at Estée and the quasi-Shakespearean dynamic underpinning it all.
Fabrizio Freda
Rachel Strugatz June 5, 2024
News and notes on the most pressing murmurs in the beauty industry: Estée Lauder’s consummation of the Deciem deal, Freda’s decision to go mass, and an unlikely turnaround play at Olaplex.
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