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For sought-after makeup artist Gucci Westman and seasoned entrepreneur David Neville, taking the long view on constructing Westman Atelier is bearing fruit within the short term, too. The husband-and-wife duo behind Westman Atelier have grown Westman Atelier right into a business with roughly 100 employees, and retail sales said to match at $100 million in 2023, in line with industry sources. Westman Atelier, which launched in 2018, has taken a considered approach to expansion and a painstaking one to product development, constructing a powerhouse “clean” luxury brand in the method. That approach has earned the corporate the 2023 WWD Honor recipient for Best-Performing Beauty Company, Small Cap. Westman Atelier’s success comes during a wave of makeup-artist led brands, including Bobbi Brown’s Jones Road...