Neighborhood Goods Takes Measures To Cut Costs As Brands Claim It Owes Them Money

Neighborhood Goods isn’t doing so good. Six beauty, wellness and apparel brands carried by the retailer, which calls itself the “​​modern alternative to—and evolution of—the department store,” informed Beauty Independent anonymously that it...

Beauty Retailer Ayla’s Distinct “Quiet Luxury” Approach Is Keeping It In Business

So much has changed since Dara Kennedy, previously global marketing manager at Elizabeth Arden, established beauty store Ayla online in 2011 before opening its San Francisco location two years later. Back then, Credo didn’t exist,...

Beauty’s Steep Discounts: A Death Spiral Or Sensible Sales Stimulant Amid Consumer Caution?

Beauty brands are in a promotional frame of mind as Black Friday and Cyber Monday inch closer, rolling out deep and lengthy discounts that raise questions about the degradation of brand equity and retail partnerships. 

NuFace Opens Facial Sculpting Studio At Nordstrom To Introduce Shoppers To Its Microcurrent Devices

At Nordstrom in the upscale shopping center Fashion Island in Newport Beach, Calif., customers can check out NuFace’s microcurrent skincare devices and receive a treatment using them as well. The brand has planted...

New Online Marketplace Rythm Aims To Be The Credo Of Sexual Wellness

New e-commerce destination Rythm is out to become Credo for sexual wellness, according to its founder Alysha Malik, who previously guided product development at sexual wellness brand Dame.  Rythm takes an...

As Luxury Fashion And Beauty E-Commerce Reconstitutes, Newby Hands Tells Us How Net-A-Porter Stays Close To Beauty Shoppers

Well before Moda Operandi jumped into beauty in January, and Farfetch entered and left the category within about a year’s span, Net-a-Porter established itself as an authority in the premium beauty sphere. Newby Hands, contributing global beauty director...