Facing increased competition in the retail sphere, department store stalwarts Macy’s and Nordstrom are doubling down on their beauty footprint with an increased emphasis on services and expanded brand offerings.

This week, I checked in on the strategy behind the fragrance brand By Rosie Jane’s Smell Good Saturdays pop-up series. Additionally, L’Oréal announces new leaders to its hair-care brands, and Target gets in on the ChatGPT shopping trend. 

Beauty is perhaps more accessible than ever in 2025, with social media-fueled shopping on the rise and premium products available to be delivered to your door at a moment’s notice. But if ever there was a reason to get out and discover beauty in person, it’s Printemps New York's beauty...

Making a towering Financial District office space into a stylish meeting ground in the post-work-from-home boom is far from an easy task. But then, most office spaces don’t have Gabriella Khalil at the helm. Khalil, as the founder of the Palm Heights hotel and creative director of the WSA, has applied...

Since she launched Feed Me in 2022, Emily Sundberg's daily newsletter has come to exemplify much of the appeal of the Substack format — that is, writing driven by an individual voice and curation that is often absent in large-scale media. And her approach has drawn in tens of thousands...

Since reacquiring Violet Grey in 2024, founder Cassandra Grey and new CEO Sherif Guirgis have wasted little time in reinvigorating the Violet Grey name. They opened a Madison Avenue store in June, hired Bluemercury vet Tracy Kline as group president in that same month and acquired The Detox Market in...

No one does tenniscore fashion quite like Morgan Riddle. Since she began posting behind-the-scenes content of her life as a tennis "WAG" in 2022, Riddle has carved out a niche for herself as an accessible insider to the elite world of tennis, and helped spur further connections between sports and...

If you take a quick look at the major perfume launches of 2025, you will see Jérôme Epinette's name come up again and again: A perfumer at the French fragrance manufacturer Robertet, Epinette is the nose behind launches ranging from Rare Beauty’s first eau de parfum to newcomer Lore’s buzzy...

Hung Vanngo has spent much of 2025 zigzagging across the globe to create makeup looks for everyone from Halle Berry at Cannes to Padma Lakshmi on the cover of Vogue India. But perhaps no look drummed up more excitement than his makeup for longtime client Selena Gomez at her September...