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10 Jan

Bee Shapiro’s Ellis Brooklyn Raises $1 Million – WWD

Fragrance business Ellis Brooklyn has raised a $1 million seed round from Stage 1 Fund and Toni Ko, the founding father of NYX. Ellis makes eau de parfums, candles and body care. It was founded by Latest York Times’ Skin Deep columnist and writer Bee Shapiro, and was early to the clean-ingredients trend within the fragrance category.  With the capital, Shapiro plans to deepen Ellis’ international distribution and hire an worker who “can dovetail not only our e-comm, but additionally the e-comms of our retailers,” she said. “Our e-comm is way up. We had our biggest month ever, like within the history of our brand, in July in e-comm,” Shapiro said. For a lot of brands, fragrance sales have suffered as stores closed and consumers...
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10 Jan

Shiseido Americas’ Opportunities – WWD

It was the Americas that first inspired Shiseido Cosmetics, with its founder Arinobu Fukuhara opening a Western-style pharmacy in Japan in 1872 after studying pharmacological techniques developed within the U.S. And 150 years later, the market remains to be a driving force for the corporate. Despite a backdrop of record-high inflation and recession fears, the Americas was considered one of the primary engines of growth for Shiseido, alongside the resurgence of travel retail, in the primary six months of the fiscal 12 months 2022 and its Americas president and chief executive officer Ron Gee is confident this trend will proceed. “We’re definitely going to be a growth driver,” he said from his Midtown office. “We’re an entrepreneurial spirit and the U.S. market...
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10 Jan

Shailene Woodley's Message To Her Exes

British Vogue presents 'In The Bag' with Shailene Woodley. “It’s sort of like a Mary Poppins bag,” the American actress quips of her Loewe Squeeze. “Please do _not_ tell Jonathan Anderson how much I stuff inside this…” The _Big Little Lies_ star, who plays Lina Lardi within the forthcoming _Ferrari_ biopic opposite Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz, counts a number of charmingly eccentric items amongst her on a regular basis essentials: playing cards (“it is vitally vital, while you discover a magician on the road, to make them do tricks for you”; wired headphones (“bluetooth freaks me out”); and a NYX lipliner (“the color is just perfect”). As for whose bag she would most wish to peek inside? Either Kate Winslet or Emily Blunt. _Ferrari_ hits cinemas on 26 December...
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