On Saturday, the "clean" makeup brand Saie hosted 180 people across three IRL masterclasses, held in Los Angeles. The group was comprised of 90 customers, including fans, top spenders and other brand loyalists, plus 90 others that included influencers and members of the press. The event was the first of...

Clarins, the 72-year-old French heritage cosmetics brand, has found a sweet spot between AI-powered technology and in-person customer service. In 2025, it quietly launched a beta test called Clarins AI Shade Finder developed in collaboration with IlluminateAI, a Silicon Valley deep-tech start up that emerged from stealth in August of...

This week, I checked in with wellness and fitness companies setting up activations at Art Basel during Art Week Miami. This includes Ammortal, Tonal and TechnoGym, among others. Additionally, Soho House leans into wellness, Aquaphor sponsors college basketball, a popular former Peloton instructor launches a fitness app, and the gummy...

When Bernstein first began attending fashion week as a college student turned blogger, influencers were still a controversial invite. Now they're not just attending shows, they're calling the shots.

Champion's new owners have a central strategy to turn the brand around: realigning it with professional sports.

At Glossy’s annual Beauty & Wellness Summit, held this week in Newport Beach, beauty and wellness leaders and insiders discussed top-of-mind challenges, current industry-transforming influences and new opportunities arising from innovation, culminating in the definition of new industry directives.

On Friday, Ulta Beauty announced the introduction of 13 new K-beauty brands across makeup and skin care to its e-commerce site. The new brands will launch in-store throughout the summer.

During last season's New York Fashion Week, in February, the number of plus-size models and size-inclusive runway shows took a nosedive, with the former dropping by nearly 24%. At the time, it was widely seen as a backsliding of the progress that NYFW had made around diversity in prior seasons.

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.

There’s a race underway to collect and analyze consumer health and wellness data — and Google just pulled ahead. On May 19, Google parent company Alphabet will begin a global rollout of its new AI-powered health coach in an effort to centralize a user’s health data collected through wearables, labs,...

Launched in 2021, Pact Collective has quickly become the beauty industry’s leading recycler with 3,300 collection bins in retailers like Sephora, Ulta Beauty, Nordstrom and Credo Beauty, as well as partnerships with L’Oréal USA, Fenty Beauty and Summer Fridays. Executive director Carly Snider joins the podcast to discuss the industry’s...

As OpenAI tests ads in ChatGPT, companies like The Knot are experimenting with conversational placements and AI-native discovery.