It feels like almost every day beauty brands accuse one another of copying, whether it's a font, a color scheme, a logo, an ingredient list or a product name. Estée Laundry, the self-described beauty collective with 199,000 followers on Instagram, will often ask its followers their opinions on copycats in polls.
On Thursday, pop star Troye Sivan also joined the YSL Beauty family. Men are increasingly present in the beauty space: In February, Kayvon Thibodeaux inked a deal with Starface, and Harry Styles, Machine Gun Kelly and Lil Yachty all...
This week, Gucci announced a collection co-designed by Harry Styles and Alessandro Michele called Gucci HA HA HA. Harrods managing director Michael Ward revealed that the British department store was delaying its annual summer sale due to slow shipments of inventory. Finally, NFT.NYC went down in New York, and fashion...
"The fact that we are still all traipsing across the bridge to Brooklyn just for one show – that is not sustainable. Why are we not figuring out: Where do people want to show, and then making a day out of Brooklyn or making a day out of the Lower...
The pandemic has had a profound effect on the fashion and beauty industries. As people moved indoors and stores shuttered, 12,200 big and small stores closed in the U.S. alone last year, according to a compilation released by commercial real estate firm CoStar Group. The pandemic also accelerated the growth...
The inherently visual nature of beauty has come to life within the marketing strategies of beauty brands for years. However, as the pandemic accelerated the consumer shift to the digital audio space, beauty brands were tasked with honing in on the beauty listener.
While the audience has grown fast and the number of tastemakers and celebrity users is impressive -- think: Virgil Abloh and 2 Chainz -- brand participation on the platform has been slow to pick up. Part of that is due to uncertainty around how a company should best make use...
