Cristina Tag

While today’s brands are being tasked with reimagining their strategies to accommodate the rise of virtual realms and augmented reality, Bakeup, which launches this fall, will come to market with such technological advancements already embedded into its DNA.  “There isn't a beauty without disruption,” said Cristina Carlino, who founded Philosophy in 1996 and has teamed along with her 20-year-old daughter, singer-songwriter Grace Gaustad, celebrity makeup artist Jo Baker, It Cosmetics’ Christine Nevin and fellow Philosophy alumna Sarah Superfon for the creation of Bakeup. It’s the not-so-classic tale of just the best amount of cooks within the kitchen: Baker, the artist; Gaustad, the muse, and Carlino, Nevin and Superfon, the seasoned strategic masterminds behind all of it. The self-described “digital-first” brand seeks...