Category: Beauty
PARIS — Yon-Ka Paris’ Françoise Mühlethaler has died.
A biochemist by training, she and her sister, Catherine Mühlethaler, an aesthetician, reinvented and ran the skilled skincare brand that was created in 1954 by brothers Ernest and Charles Mühlethaler, plus Ernest’s wife Cécile.
“A prolific, creative mind with infinite imagination, Françoise Mühlethaler explored many horizons, including a love of nature, science and aesthetics,” Yon-Ka said in a press release. “Her motto led her: ‘In the event you imagine in something, do it.’”
She believed in international expansion, helping launch Yon-Ka abroad in 1970. The brand reached markets resembling Belgium, Holland, Scandinavia, Asia and Canada by the mid-’70s and arrived within the U.S. in 1987.
“Despite facing various challenges, Françoise propelled the brand internationally and made...
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Mindy McKnight, also referred to as @cutegirlshairstyles on YouTube and the founding father of hair care brand Hairitage, jokingly refers to her latest launch as “sexy dandruff shampoo.”
“I wanted bottles that you just’re not afraid to display in your shower when someone walks into the lavatory — something you’d take an image of and never be bothered that it says dandruff on it,” said McKnight, who launched Hairitage in 2020 in partnership with Maesa, and is now making her first foray into anti-dandruff care.
Beyond striving for chic packaging, McKnight sought to make sure the gathering catered to different causes of dandruff (dry skin, fungal dandruff and so forth), while also addressing strand health from root to tip.
“Not all consumers realize...
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On the lookout for the wonder in feelings of sadness and anger, Meguro imagines intensely creative wigs that fuse hair styling and sculpture
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“Something that excites and confuses,” is what Shunsuke Meguro says, when asked what beauty means to him. That’s clear from the intensely creative wigs and hair pieces that the London-based hairstylist creates; elaborate, sculptural works that range from ships towering above...
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