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No Stupid Questions Beauty Founders Say Tariffs Cost Them Thousands To Millions, Forcing Permanent Changes
KYT Group, Founded By Former Honest And CAA Executives, Acquires Glo Skin Beauty
KYT Group, the investment and advisory firm formed by former The Honest Co. executive Kurt Kober and ex-CAA head of business development Michael Yanover, has made its first brand acquisition, Glo Skin Beauty. The deal, structured...
Eco-Conscious Founders Face A Consumer Backlash, But Remain Optimistic About Sustainable Beauty’s Future
Sustainable beauty’s recent heyday, which peaked in the late 2010s and early 2020s as refillable, plastic-free and solid-format brands gained momentum, now feels like a different era. Inflation, social media-fueled trend cycles and heightened price sensitivity...
Beauty’s New Value Equation: Price Sensitivity Shifts To Performance Sensitivity
Despite ongoing economic pressure, beauty ended 2025 with mass and prestige sales growing within a single percentage point of each other, a convergence that indicates a new consumer definition of value. According to market research firm Circana,...
How Sophisticated Are Beauty Shoppers About Price And Value?
To accompany a Feb. 12 article on Merit chronicling its rise to $200 million in retail sales last year, Business of Fashion created a chart comparing the price of Merit’s foundation stick with foundation sticks from...
Bite Beauty Founder Susanne Langmuir Returns To Sephora With Skin-First Makeup Brand Lixr
In May last year, Susanne Langmuir emailed Alison Hahn, then SVP of makeup and fragrance at Sephora, about a new project, cautiously testing her readiness to reenter the knife fight of beauty specialty retail. “These are my best...
