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1 Jun

Brooke Shields on Hair Care Line, Community and Entrepreneurship

Brooke Shields on Hair Care Line, Community and Entrepreneurship
For Brooke Shields, Start is greater than only a hair care brand. It’s a latest starting with beauty. At WWD’s annual Beauty Inc CEO Summit in Miami, Shields sat down with Beauty Inc editor in chief Jenny B. High quality to debate her relationship with beauty, starting Start, constructing a community and the similarities between entrepreneurship and the entertainment industry. “My relationship with beauty was all the time either work related or vanity,” she said. “It’s only been on this era of my life that I began to appreciate that it appears like self care and a privilege.”  It seems her customers and followers felt the identical way. Prior to constructing Start, a hair care line formulated for girls 40-plus, Shields began Starting...
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2 Apr

Entrepreneurship, Inclusion, Black Is Beautiful

Entrepreneurship, Inclusion, Black Is Beautiful
Naomi Sims’ legacy as one in every of the primary Black supermodels continues to resonate greater than a decade after her death. A trailblazer in each fashion and wonder, Sims realized a multimillion-dollar beauty business that spanned wigs, cosmetics and fragrance. She is remembered as a sublime and gracious woman who championed fellow Black models of her time. André Leon Talley, who spoke at Sims’ funeral, called her “the pioneer, superstar Black model.” “She was, most significantly, a sublime woman,” he said in a recent phone call with WWD. “She all the time exuded contemporary, modern, minimalist elegance in her entire profession.” Talley admired Sims’ modeling a lot, he would pin her magazine pictures to his partitions throughout highschool and college. “She was my pin-up...
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30 Aug

Black Women In Entrepreneurship: Sound Advice From The Front

Black Women In Entrepreneurship: Sound Advice From The Front
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