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Beauty Brands Go Vertical With Supplier Acquisitions: Smart Strategy Or Dangerous Distraction?
Although exuberance about ingredient and manufacturing mergers and acquisitions hasn’t quite matched reality, for the last few years, big beauty companies have been investing in biotechnology-driven ingredient suppliers to access ingredient innovations early and gain...
Is Louis Vuitton’s $160 Lipstick All That Different From A Drugstore Option?
Louis Vuitton wants to refashion how consumers define luxury beauty. The brand revealed its first makeup collection, La Beauté Louis Vuitton, created alongside legendary artist Pat McGrath, last week with 55 lipsticks and 10 tinted lip balms,...
Is Beauty’s Founder-Led Era Over?
In a June article, The Business of Fashion declared the end of the founder-led era. In response, Tamar Koifman, a beauty strategy advisor and marketing leader, asked on LinkedIn, “How could we be so naive?”...
Are AI Influencers Like Slate Brands’ Iris Lane The Future Of Social Media?
People are befriending artificial intelligence bots, but being influenced by them on social media? That appears to be a bridge too far for many. On Tuesday last week, Slate Brands, the incubator behind men’s skincare...
Ami Colé’s Closure And The High Price Of Trying To Compete At Sephora
Last year, the market research Euromonitor estimated more than a quarter of all new brands were in the beauty and personal care category. With the beauty industry a drop in the bucket of the larger consumer...
Does Beauty Product Innovation Have An AI Slop Problem?
Beauty industry expert and consultant Lorne Lucree believes the beauty industry is stuck in a largely uninspiring product launch cycle he compares to what’s happening with artificial intelligence. “There’s this flood of content and...
