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Gap is back (in beauty). With comparable-store sales positive for six consecutive quarters, the company is feeling confident enough to expand its product purview by reentering beauty initially at Old Navy, its value-focused retailer nameplate, which will...

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...

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,...

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?”...

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...

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...