Black Beauty Brand Founders Urge Shoppers Not To Boycott Target Amid DEI Rollback
In 2021, Target, the big-box chain based in Minneapolis, where George Floyd was murdered the year before, committed to investing more than $2 billion in Black-owned businesses, including adding 500 Black-owned brands to its shelves...
Breakthru Beauty’s Allison Slater Ray And Lisa Motzko Hamilton On Why Chasing Trends And Virality Can Hurt Brands
Combined, Allison Slater Ray and Lisa Motzko Hamilton, co-founders of new consultancy Breakthru Beauty, have been in the beauty and retail industries for more than 50 years. They met through IT Cosmetics when Slater Ray was SVP...
Former Le Labo Exec Emilie Mascarell Gives Refillable Hand Soap The Luxury Treatment
With her new eponymous brand, fragrance industry veteran Emilie Mascarell envisions people coming for the experience and staying with refills. Maison Mascarell is launching today with silky, non-drying French-made hand soap smelling of...
What’s In And Out For Fragrance This Year
Fragrance registered the steepest sales growth of any beauty category in 2024. In the first nine months of the year, market research firm Circana’s sales estimates show it up 14% in prestige and 2% in mass. As...
The Business Of Beauty In The Time Of Trump 2.0
Chronicling the inauguration party thrown by Bari Weiss’s online newspaper The Free Press for her popular Substack Feed Me, Emily Sundberg reported there were “big white smiles,” “incredible tans,” “women with...
