Despite beauty being a $445 billion industry, the guidelines on chemicals allowed in products are minuscule, and have gone largely unchanged since the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act was passed in 1938. But, thanks to a group of insiders who’ve made it their mission to repair the system, change is...

Beauty brands are finding ways to make tech devices, which already drive buzz due to their novelty, further work to their advantage. A common theme is informing customers of features that need perfecting, and serving them up a personalized problem-solving product.

The annual Victoria’s Secret Fashion show can be enough to catapult a model’s career — just look at the resumes of veterans Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio. Brazilian model Daniela Braga, who walked her fourth Victoria’s Secret show in Shanghai in November, kept a record of show day, from her...

Rebecca Minkoff walked Glossy through a typical jam-packed workday, which included hitting handbag market, enjoying a glam session over lunch and moderating a panel discussion at her Soho store, part of the recently-launched RM Superwomen platform and centered on the work-life challenges of modern moms.

As digitally native brands continue to disrupt the beauty industry’s status quo, more and more investors are rushing to back them up. Buzzy companies like Glossier, Huda Beauty and Charlotte Tilbury have all received recent funding, but even lesser-known brands like Function of Beauty and Prose are raking it in....

Authenticity is all the rage these days, and “no-makeup makeup” no longer makes the cut. This puts beauty brands -- long known for their idealistic advertisements -- in a tricky spot: Continue promoting perfection at the risk of offending consumers, or rewrite beauty’s blueprint with less aspirational, “imperfect” imagery? Many...

Monday marked the official start of fashion month, the industry's seminal biannual event that convenes fashion professionals and enthusiasts around the world to see the latest designer collections. We took a look at fashion month by the numbers, including everything from the average number of minutes a show is delayed...

HearstMade, the branded content arm of Hearst Digital Media, is looking to New York Fashion Week as a way to expand its capabilities, beginning with an influencer event co-sponsored by BCBG.

As social media increasingly becomes an extension and reflection of our lives, it’s providing important insights into the evolution of fashion and beauty trends. We pinpointed five of the things we learned from the year's social media reports, about how users engaged with fashion and beauty content in 2017.

Meant to evoke popular specialty-multi retailers like Sephora and Ulta, Target's new beauty section was established with goals of better spotlighting trendy items, encouraging product testing and ramping up one-on-one service.

Since the company was acquired by U.K.-based Boohoo Group in February 2017, Nasty Gal has been working to get its vibe back on track and regain the trust of its shoppers. Today’s launch of its first collaboration in the new setup feels like a step in the right direction.

Today, some celebrity hairstylists have become famous in their own right: People like Jen Atkin, Ted Gibson and Tracey Cunningham garner social media followings to rival their clients. But most of their peers remain largely behind-the-scenes in a job that isn’t always so glamorous. We spoke to one of them...