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January 2024

29 Jan

Mr. Know-It-All: John Waters on beauty

John Waters is the best. His killer movies like Pink Flamingos, Hairspray, and Cecil B. Demented will teach you all the things you could find out about art, American insanity, and the special joy that comes with revelling in your individual freakishness. He shares yet more wisdom as a filth elder in his latest book, Mr. Know-It-All, which might be the best of all his literary works (sorry, Art: A Sex Book), and never simply because it includes his ode to the long-shuttered NYC sex club, Night Shift (a fake park overrun with zonked-out tramps), that photo of him with Justin Bieber, or the story of how he tripped on LSD last summer, aged seventy-two, together with his old pal...
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29 Jan

Inside E.l.f. Beauty’s Oversized Growth

E.l.f. Beauty turned in probably the greatest performances of a publicly traded company in 2022, but for those who think chairman and chief executive officer Tarang Amin has all the answers on the subject of navigating an enterprise through a rapidly transforming and really volatile business landscape, you’d be mistaken. He’s got all the questions. For Amin, who has been leading the corporate for the past nine years and notched his sixteenth consecutive quarter of growth earlier this 12 months, who oversaw a 78 percent increase in share price in 2022 (versus a 19 percent decline for the S+P 500) and an expected 38-39 percent sales increase to $545 million for FY 2023, curiosity is the important thing to E.l.f.’s oversized success. Ask...
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