Sara Spruch-Feiner is a lifelong New Yorker and writer. She is a Senior Reporter at Glossy, where she spearheads Glossy Pop, a vertical about the intersection of beauty, fashion, and culture. She also writes the Glossy Pop Newsletter, which goes out on Fridays. She has contributed to publications including New York Magazine, The Zoe Report, Byrdie, Women’s Health, Coveteur, Shape—and many more. She is a graduate of Kenyon College where she earned her B.A. in English Literature (with a double minor in Women’s Studies and Art History) and a 2009 recipient of the New York Women in Communications, Inc. scholarship. She is equally passionate about women’s rights, really great serums, television, and the power of writing about them all.
Sara Spruch-Feiner is a lifelong New Yorker and writer. She is a Senior Reporter at Glossy, where she spearheads Glossy Pop, a vertical about the intersection of beauty, fashion, and culture. She also writes the Glossy Pop Newsletter, which goes out on Fridays. She has contributed to publications including New York Magazine, The Zoe Report, Byrdie, Women’s Health, Coveteur, Shape—and many more. She is a graduate of Kenyon College where she earned her B.A. in English Literature (with a double minor in Women’s Studies and Art History) and a 2009 recipient of the New York Women in Communications, Inc. scholarship. She is equally passionate about women’s rights, really great serums, television, and the power of writing about them all.
On this week's episode of The Glossy Beauty Podcast, Sara Foster discusses the road to launching a brand, the brand's expansion into beauty, the type of partners she wants to work with and the reason she prefers a customer event over an influencer blowout. According to Foster, beauty isn't the...
The D'Amelio family — mom Heidi, dad Marc, and sisters Charli, 19, and Dixie, 22 — are bringing their footwear brand to downtown Manhattan. Dubbed D'Amelio Footwear, the brand will be featured in a pop-up in partnership with Shopify from March 8-10.
In June 2022, The New York Times reported that #BookTok, a phenomenon on TikTok, had helped authors sell 20 million printed books in 2021. Of course, TikTok is also known for its great influence on the beauty industry, in nearly every category. On TikTok, the two worlds have long intersected,...
Since its launch in 1996, "clean" skin-care brand Osea has never discounted its products. Even on Black Friday, its only deal has been a gift with purchase, not a discount. In 2016, however, on the occasion of its 20th birthday, it wanted to mark the occasion — but it didn't want...
On February 22, direct-to-consumer cashmere brand Naadam posted a series of four Instagram posts poking fun at competitor Quince. Quince, which sells cashmere apparel, among other things, markets its pricing directly in comparison to brands including Naadam, Naked Cashmere and J.Crew, spotlighting its own $50 styles. Naadam's meme-ified posts, in...
In August 2023, Glossy was the first to report that Rhode was closing in on selling its first million tubes of its Peptide Lip Treatment, the skin care-enhanced lip balm for which Hailey Bieber's brand has become best known. At $16, that meant the single SKU had already earned the...
Kyle Leahy, Glossier's first CEO after its founder Emily Weiss vacated the role in May 2022, has had a busy first year-and-a-half in the job. She brought the brand into wholesale for the first time. brokering its partnership with Sephora, which has been a great success. She's also continued the brand's...
Caliray debuted its Hideaway Brightening + Concealing Undereye Corrector on TikTok Shop on February 15 — the product will debut on Sephora and the brand's DTC site on February 20. Caliray has sold at Sephora since it first launched, in February 2021.
From January 16-18, Benefit Cosmetics flew 10 influencers to its headquarters in San Francisco, putting them up at The Fairmont Hotel. But these weren't traditional influencers. These were influencers who focus on TikTok Shop.