Care Tag
PARIS — Frédéric Fekkai is beginning to globetrot, using France because the launchpad for his namesake clean salon hair care brand.
“I’m very excited because — obviously — I’m French,” he said.
The star stylist and wonder entrepreneur had not ever sold his Fekkai products there before. But here’s the way it got here about: He was talking to a friend in France, and that pal said to him: “‘We love your brand — so why can’t we've got your brand here?’” Fekkai recounted. “And I said: ‘Oh, that’s query.’”
He laughed while telling the story.
Then Fekkai met with Bleu Libellule, a French bricks-and-mortar chain and e-shop that sells skilled hair and wonder supplies to pros, in addition to to consumers. It...
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Le Domaine has found its first U.S. retail partner.
The brand, cofounded by Brad Pitt, will enter Bluemercury online and in 20 doors on Tuesday. It includes 4 products — a cleanser, a serum and creams in two weights — and costs range from $209 to $242.
Despite the megawatt name behind it, Tracy Kline, Bluemercury’s head of merchandising, spa and provide chain, said it’s the brand’s science-backed formulations that differentiated it within the crowded skincare market. “They hit all the good points: the story, the ingredients, being environmentally conscious, patent-pending ingredients. The art and science and having this story of the vineyards and the wineries for the last 20 years to deliver this great product — we predict it’s going to be...
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Make Time Wellness, a complement brand founded by Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni, has one goal in mind: empowering women to take time for themselves.
The brand launches Thursday with 4 stock keeping units, including two drink powders: the orange-flavored Make Time for Brain Health, $49, and the apple-flavored Make Time for Prenatal Health, $49, and two gummy vitamins: Make Time Women’s Multi-Vitamin, $24, and Make Time Prenatal Vitamin, $24. The brand can also be working on a brain health gummy. Across the 4 skus, Make Time Wellness is doubling down on the importance of neurological health.
While brain care continues to trend and the neurological health market grows — in response to Deloitte it could grow to $721 billion by...
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