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17 May

Prelude Growth Partners Takes Minority Investment in Skin Pharm

Prelude Growth Partners Takes Minority Investment in Skin Pharm
Investment in the wonder services space continues to heat up, with Skin Pharm, an aesthetic skincare practice that has its own product line, receiving a minority investment from Prelude Growth Partners. The $15 million investment from the female-founded growth equity firm will fund the corporate’s clinic expansion plans nationwide and contribute to ongoing product development, each parties said in an announcement. As a part of the deal, chief executive officer Maegan Griffin, a board-certified nurse practitioner with cosmetic surgery and dermatology experience who founded Skin Pharm in 2017, will proceed to guide the corporate. “Now's the right time to take this investment because we now have this amazing team, we built a trustworthy brand, and we now have a loyal community of consumers...
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17 May

Willy Chavarria and Hillary Taymour Talk Fashion; Plus Two

Willy Chavarria and Hillary Taymour Talk Fashion; Plus Two
ON COURSE: Fashion designers Willy Chavarria and Hillary Taymour took the stage Monday night during a panel discussion hosted by Marist College’s fashion program where they discussed the state of the style industry and staying true to their missions. Moderated by The Latest York Times fashion director and chief fashion critic Vanessa Friedman and Marist College’s director of fashion program John Bartlett, the designers spoke to a room of alumni and students, giving insight into their very own businesses and the way they’ve navigated the style industry. “In 2009, I used to be really lucky to start out a business in fashion school and it took off naturally,” said Taymour, who's the creative director of fashion label Collina Strada. “I’m still lucky...
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17 May

Muji Turns to Art and the Environment to Show

Muji Turns to Art and the Environment to Show
It’s not exactly forest bathing, but Muji IS will soon reveal an arbor-inspired installation in Recent York City. As of Thursday, shoppers and passers-by in Hudson Yards can walk through “To the Forest of Verbs with ‘MUJI IS,’” an exhibition that was inspired by the brand’s book of the identical name. This can be the primary time the immersive experience is Stateside and the disclosing coincides with NYCxDesign, a citywide weeklong celebration of the varied disciplines of design that kicks off Thursday and can wrap up May 25. The experience was previously staged in Japan, Singapore and most recently in Malaysia.  The thought is that visitors will leave with a glimpse of Muji’s design ethos and highlights of a collection of products from...
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17 May

Hair Cycling: Advantages and Find out how to Craft

Hair Cycling: Advantages and Find out how to Craft
When you’re someone who has at all times kept multiple variety of shampoo in your shower — perhaps one for clarifying and one other for a more moisturizing cleanse — congratulations. You were hip to hair cycling before it blew up on TikTok. Like its predecessor, the dermatologist-approved skin cycling, hair cycling involves alternating different products with different purposes — and it isn’t particularly recent. “It’s a recent trendy term for an idea that is been around for a very long time,” says board-certified dermatologist Hadley King, MD. But is hair cycling as legit as skin cycling? TikTok would have you think so, with the hashtag #haircycling nearing 200,000 views as that is being written. But as we all know — and...
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