This week, I look at how Nars is translating real-life beauty experiences to digital, check in on BeautyPie, and showcase yet another review platform moving into commerce.

"With all of our makeup, I'm always going to be looking for areas of improvement. There are new technologies and new ingredients. You always have to be working with manufacturers to find out, 'If I were to tweak this and make it 1% better, what would I do?'"

Since March 2017, Vlahos has been at the helm of The Honest Co., which first launched in 2012 by actress and entrepreneur Jessica Alba. The Honest Co. products are sold online and in 32,000 retail locations, including Walgreens, Amazon and Nordstrom, and Boots in the U.K.

If you’re going to launch a makeup light, there is perhaps no better partner than Mario Dedivanovic -- aka, the man behind makeup brand Makeup by Mario and Kim Kardashian West’s entire makeup aesthetic. Kelly Mondora, founder of a new beauty-focused lighting company, Ilios, enlisted Dedivanovic as a co-founder before launching...

This week, an in-depth look at a new, rental-focused venture aiming to drive a necessary “paradigm switch” in fashion. Plus, a members-only shopping club is coming to NYC. And Mytheresa is expanding its resale program created in partnership with Vestiaire Collective. 

While still rare, a growing number of brands are adding accessible packaging and site technology to serve visually impaired customers.

In this week’s Luxury Briefing, Mytheresa’s chief customer experience officer, Amber Pepper, shares why the luxury e-retailer hosted a Pucci activation in Austin. In addition, U.K.-based lingerie brand Bordelle discusses its U.S. strategy amid tariffs. Also, Lyst Index insights and news to know.

As trends like the skinification of hair have taken hold of beauty consumers, it is now easier than ever for hair-care brands to attempt their own category transcendence.

While New York and Los Angeles remain the biggest cities for both fashion and beauty, small brands like Esker, larger brands like Kendra Scott and retailers like Neighborhood Goods have all relocated to or opened stores in Austin over the last year. The prevailing feeling among those companies is that...

On Friday, the 3-year-old clean beauty company announced it revisited its entire portfolio of nearly 20 products to eliminate certain products while introducing new ones, reducing plastic usage, improving existing plastic options and ensuring the recyclability of items.

While fashion trends have come from the small screen into the real world plenty of times, it has been less common for makeup trends to transcend in that way — let alone to even be as noticeable as "Euphoria" allows (and wants) its makeup to be.

Luxury jewelry once stood apart from the volatility of global trade, but tariffs are now forcing the industry to face the same realities as everyone else.