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17 Dec

Pharrell Williams Talks Aging, Energy and the Beauty Business

Despite evidence on the contrary, Pharrell Williams insists that he does, in actual fact, age. Asked for his age-defying secrets, the musician, producer and entrepreneur eventually landed on good vibes and humidity. But first, he demurred — “I do age,” Williams told the group of beauty executives on the WWD Beauty CEO Summit. “I occur to be one among those people, I believe wrinkles are beautiful.” Williams joined WWD and Beauty Inc executive editor Jenny B. Wonderful for a conversation on beauty, humanity and business. “Beauty is absolutely, truthfully, a spiritual thing, at the start. You may see someone that’s textbook beautiful, but it surely’s what comes out of their mouth or the energy that they vibrate that tells you if they are surely...

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29 Oct

Tracee Ellis Ross on Creating Equity, Inclusivity in Beauty

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Tracee Ellis Ross on Creating Equity, Inclusivity in Beauty

Tracee Ellis Ross doesn’t just put her money where her mouth is. She puts mind, body, heart and soul there, too. The multihyphenate launched Pattern Beauty, hair look after curly, coily and tight-textured hair, in September 2019, just months before COVID-19 shut the world down and the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked a latest social justice movement. But fairly than deter her, for Ross — successful actor, producer, advocate and, now, entrepreneur — who had worked for a decade to bring the brand to life — those events helped catalyze a fair larger role: becoming a number one voice in beauty for driving meaningful change around inclusivity and equity within the industry. “Tracee is such a magnetic force whose superpower is inspiring...

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25 Oct

Three Years in Business – WWD

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Three years and tens of tens of millions of dollars later, Jones Road, the wonder brand founded by Bobbi Brown, remains to be just getting began. Makeup-artist-turned-entrepreneur Bobbi Brown is celebrating three years with a latest kit of Brown’s favorite products, dubbed the Bobbi 3.0 Kit, in addition to two embroidered sweaters in collaboration with Lingua Franca. The previous debuts Thursday on Jones Road’s website and in stores for $82. The Lingua Franca collaboration, available in two slogans — “I Am Me” and “What If” — will sell at Jones Road retail stores before rolling out on Lingua Franca’s website Nov. 2 for $135 on a made-to-order basis. A 3rd sweater, donning the phrase “Beauty Reinvented,” may even be available on...

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16 Sep

Meet Corbin Chamberlin, Energy Healer to the Fashion &

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Meet Corbin Chamberlin, Energy Healer to the Fashion &

Lawyers, bankers — and energy healers? In today’s fashion world, these professionals are working hand-in-hand as entrepreneurs look to complement more traditional business advice with guidance from the cosmos. And one healer particularly — Corbin Chamberlin — has develop into fashion and finance’s go-to witch. His process, he tells WWD, spans spiritual modalities, from tarot readings to sage cleansing private jets. “It’s a full-time thing and day-after-day is a little bit bit different,” he says. “We do tarot card readings, we have a look at what my client is trying to realize, which could also be selling a business, and where their mind must be. We incorporate rituals for manifestation, and there’s an entire crystal prescription,” he said. “I’m on a jet...

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