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Lorde’s New Store Carries Seven Brands And That’s Enough For Founder Rachel Williams
Lorde stocks just enough to keep customers enthralled and satisfied at its new store in Grand Rapids, Mich. Only seven brands are showcased in the store’s 1,000-square-foot space — Sappho Cosmetics, African Botanics, Jenny Patinkin, Omorovicza, Gressa...
Nicole Rechelbacher Keeps Intelligent Nutrients At The Forefront Of Environmental Stewardship
Nicole Rechelbacher has an impressive legacy to live up to. Her father Horst Rechelbacher established Aveda in 1978 and the idea that natural products have a place in professional haircare. Before selling Aveda to Estée Lauder nearly two decades...
Bellami’s Scott Friedman On How To Hire The Right CEO
Scott Friedman is a favorite executive of beauty entrepreneurs. Along with founder Toni Ko, he guided the mass-market makeup authority NYX Cosmetics to a $500 million deal with L’Oréal in 2014. Seven years earlier, he...
Kalumi’s Marine Collagen Beauty Bars Are Kicking Into High Gear At Retail
Kalumi’s protein bars are packing a powerful retail punch. After the beauty food brand launched in January, Free People picked it up in March and sold out of some 500 bars within a month. Goop...
Velvet Pops The Cork On Serious Skincare With A Not-So-Serious Attitude
Kate Lee has a dual professional personality. By day, she’s busy crunching numbers to evaluate clinical research as a health informatics analyst. By night, she dreams up beauty product formulas and packaging design for her emerging brand, Velvet,...
Silk Therapeutics Takes Science In A Clean Skincare Direction
Gregory Altman and Rebecca Lacouture, the brainiacs behind Silk Therapeutics, are smarter than Beauty Independent, but we’ll try to summarize their discoveries for simple folks like us. The skincare company founders figured out how to stabilize liquefied silk...
Sfumato Fragrances Serves Up Scents And Stiff Drinks At New Detroit Location
Sfumato Fragrances commingles smell and taste at its new Detroit perfumery-cum-pub. The intimate 650-square-foot space in the garden level of a Gothic Victorian mansion sells scents by day and serves cocktails at night that pair with the brand’s...
