Glossy Pop Newsletter: Depop’s first Trend Report defines the Gen-Z trends to expect in 2024 For the first time since its launch in 2011, Depop has released a consumer-facing Trend Report, which looks at both the trends that defined 2023 and those it predicts will shape 2024. The report pulled data from the platform's 30 million registered users to gauge the power of trends from...
Alix Earle wants to start a brand and share the process on her podcast Has anyone had a crazier year than Alix Earle? The 22-year-old TikTok star and podcaster started rapidly amassing followers in January 2023. That was largely thanks to her relatability while taking followers along for the ride as she got ready for nights out as a University of Miami senior. Her...
New body-care brand Nerra touts the importance of exfoliating The high-end body-care brand selling direct-to-consumer will debut with three products plus two versions of "microbiome safe" exfoliating gloves. Co-founder Tayma Touati grew up immersed in hammam culture, where cleansing one's body with soap was merely half the equation of cleanliness, and exfoliation was the other half.
Glossy Pop Newsletter: How the Aritzia Super Puff became the cool girl puffer This season brought the widest assortment of the puffer yet, with Aritzia selling 37 silhouettes available in 65 colors and 16 fabrications.
Victoria Beckham on growing her beauty and fashion empire: ‘We feel like a house now’ 2023 has proven a big year for Victoria Beckham’s 4-year-old namesake beauty brand. In September, it introduced a new fragrance category, with three scents co-created with Jerome Epinette, the perfumer known for his work with major fragrance players like Byredo. Victoria Beckham said she’d been working on the scents for...
Founder Susan Yara on ‘accelerating’ Naturium after selling to E.l.f. Beauty In August, when Susan Yara sold Naturium to E.l.f. Beauty for a $355 million cash and stock deal, she became one of the first true content creators to sell a brand. That’s excluding expert-founded brands like Jen Atkin’s Ouai, which sold to Procter & Gamble in 2021.
Chillhouse’s Cyndi Ramirez on filling a white space in self-care Cyndi Ramirez founded Chillhouse, a self-care spot in SoHo, in 2017. The idea was to solve for a white space she’d observed: a place to get an affordable massage, a manicure and an adaptogenic matcha latte, all under one roof.
Lauryn Bosstick and The Skinny Confidential launch new product and first OOH campaign Lauryn Bosstick was always going to launch a dry brush. She's been telling her followers about the practice of dry brushing for years. At one point, in 2017, she wrote a blog post about her difficult search for a dry brush providing her desired level of intensity. Unable to find...
CBD Beauty has been declared dead – Muri Lelu isn’t giving up just yet Several once-buzzy CBD beauty brands, including Lord Jones and its Kristin-Bell-fronted offshoot, Happy Dance, as well as Wldkat, are gone. Meanwhile, other former players have reformulated products to eliminate them of the once-ubiquitous ingredient.