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The ultimate fashion industry bible, offering incisive reportage on all aspects of the business and its biggest players. Anchored by preeminent fashion journalist Lauren Sherman, Line Sheet also features Rachel Strugatz, who delivers unparalleled intel on what’s happening in the beauty industry, as well as Malique Morris and Sarah Shapiro, who both write about brick-and-mortar, D.T.C., and more.
THE LATEST ARTICLES
Rachel Strugatz
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December 11, 2024
The Colossus of Rhode
Rhode, the Hailey Bieber-founded beauty brand, has scaled up from a one-off celebrity lip gloss line into a nine-figure business with aspirations to be the Skims of beauty—and that includes charting a future that’s less dependent on its famous founder.
Rachel Strugatz
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December 4, 2024
Beauty M&A’s Lost Year
Despite rose-tinted expectations, it’s shaping up to be a barren year for beauty business hookups, as sellers and buyers diverge over valuations and strategic investors pull back.
Rachel Strugatz
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November 27, 2024
Gwyneth’s 50 Shades of Grey
News, notes, and talmudic meditations on the new (and, in many ways, overdue) partnership between Gwyneth Paltrow and Cassandra Grey—and the “fixer” at the center of it all: Julia Hunter.
Rachel Strugatz
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November 21, 2024
Ordinary People
Deciem—and particularly its top brand, The Ordinary—was never a cookie-cutter Lauder business. Now, Nicola Kilner, the C.E.O. credited with holding it all together, is departing, and the company is feeling the growing pains.
Rachel Strugatz
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November 13, 2024
The Lauder Blood Sacrifice
After being passed over for the C.E.O. job, and as she exits her family’s storied beauty company, Jane Lauder took a sharpened eyeliner pencil to her cousin William in a leaked letter calling for his ouster from the board. Is this a petty family skirmish, an overdue governance change, or the first salvo in a new era at the historic beauty company?
Rachel Strugatz & Lauren Sherman
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November 6, 2024
Beyond Goop and Evil
Gwyneth’s eternally unprofitable startup is facing yet another crisis, with a flailing beauty brand, a third round of layoffs, and a founder who’s realizing the limits of building a brand around her own personality. Will Goop ever locate an exit?
Rachel Strugatz
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October 30, 2024
The Last Lauder
Jane, an ELC exec and a runner-up to replace departing C.E.O. Fabrizio Freda, has announced she’s stepping back from the company her grandmother built, along with her cousin William Lauder. How will this notably un-familial succession drama, and the new reign of Stéphane de La Faverie, scramble the company the Lauders are leaving?
Rachel Strugatz
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October 23, 2024
Gwyneth’s Beauty Makeover
Despite recent layoffs, Gwyneth has found her groove in the food business and gotten serious (no more vagina candles) about her beauty brand. But can her wry, in-on-the-joke WASP aesthetic and celebrity icon status overcome C-suite troubles and find her an exit?
Rachel Strugatz
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October 16, 2024
Glossier & Found
Rêve and Doux, the company’s new fragrances, had a buoyant debut. But will they offer the sort of sustained success required to create a scent portfolio and offer Emily Weiss (and Kirsten Green… and Josh Kushner…) that long-awaited exit?
Rachel Strugatz
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October 9, 2024
And the Next C.E.O. of Estée Lauder Is…
There were apparently five contenders in the mix to succeed Fabrizio Freda as the next C.E.O. of The Estée Lauder Companies—including Jane, an heir to the Lauder fortune. But sources with close ties to the family and leadership team say another executive has the inside track, and might even be a shoo-in.
