Katherine Power recently co-founded the SPAC Powered Brands, focused on beauty and wellness brands. One of few female-founded SPACs, Powered Brands raised over $1.5 billion in orders before the end of its first pricing day.

Tinx never set out to be a beauty influencer, yet the products she loves frequently become cult favorites. So it’s no surprise that many brands inked partnerships with her this year. For example, in August, Kiehl’s introduced “The Tinx Edit.”

The Estée Lauder Companies’ Jane Hertzmark Hudis can count many wins in 2021, including the global growth and strong performance of La Mer and hair care. Additionally, new partnerships have led ELC brands to offer a fresh take on beauty.

Jean-André Rougeot has never been afraid of change. Case in point: Sephora’s new partnership with Kohl’s. Kohl’s beauty experience was nascent prior to Sephora coming along, but Rougeot saw the melding of the retailers as a step to growth.

Over the last 12-months, Versed launched a popular TikTok series, became climate-neutral certified, reformulated products to be more environmentally friendly and brought together over 100 beauty brands to call for federal action around climate change.

The relationship between brand and shopper continues to evolve. As omnichannel marketing continues to drive campaign success, marketers are leveraging their own customer data to market fashion, beauty and luxury in different ways at critical stages of the customer journey.  This guide from Endear puts a spotlight on how today’s...

According to the restructuring support agreement, the company would aim to raise $650 million in new equity and seek to exit the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process by April, while eliminating Ron Perelman from ownership.

"Laguna Beach" first aired 17 years ago, but Kristin Cavallari is still making headlines. Her jewelry brand, Uncommon James, launched in 2017 and has close to 1 million followers on Instagram. Now, she’s launching Uncommon Beauty with a tight lineup of five products she counts as daily essentials. 

At Lush’s South by Southwest activation, the body-care company is showcasing not just bath bombs, but also truth bombs about big tech. 

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.

On Tuesday, Valentino Beauty held a press and media event and a consumer-facing event to introduce the brand to the world. It will ve available for pre-order on its website, Valentino-Beauty.US. In August, the brand will expand to retailers like Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus and Bloomingdale's.

As part of its ongoing embrace of new digital platforms, makeup brand Nars Cosmetics is one of the earliest adopters of the new beauty feature on editorial fashion game app Drest.