Ilia Beauty Being Acquired by Courtin-Clarins Family: EXCLUSIVE

27 Apr

PARIS — Clean makeup brand Ilia Beauty is being acquired by the Courtin-Clarins family holding company, Famille C, which also owns the Clarins brand. Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed. The move will give the holding a pioneer and leader within the burgeoning clean beauty category, which is anticipated to register significant growth in coming years. Ten-year-old, Los Angeles-based Ilia is among the many buzziest beauty brands today. It was clean before clean was cool, and never wavered from founder Sasha Plavsic’s vision of making skin care-powered color cosmetics products gentle enough for reactive skin that may also provide long-term advantages. Her clearly outlined mission: to guard and revive skin. Prisca Courtin, deputy chief executive officer of Famille C, contacted Ilia three years...

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25 Apr

Parfums Christian Dior Unveils Sustainability Strategy: EXCLUSIVE

by Beautifaire101

Beauty, Featured

PARIS — Parfums Christian Dior is unveiling its sustainability strategy, called “Beauty as a Legacy 2030.” That builds on the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton-owned house’s earlier efforts and includes voluntary reporting. “Last yr, it was really about intent, and this yr is about motion,” said Laurent Kleitman, president and chief executive officer of Parfums Christian Dior, calling sustainability a business imperative today. “Sustainability shouldn't be a latest concept at Dior,” he said. The brand’s L’Or de Vie skincare packaging was fully refillable 16 years ago, and Rouge Dior lipstick from the Fifties was, as well. “So there has at all times been something within the Dior DNA that was about protecting the world at large and nature,” said Kleitman. “And this has to...

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13 Mar

House of Drunk Is Popping Up in Paris: EXCLUSIVE

by Beautifaire101

Beauty, Featured

PARIS — As Drunk Elephant expands across the globe, the clean skincare brand is poised to open its first House of Drunk pop-up in Paris. It is going to be positioned on the Pavillon Rive Gauche, 6 Rue Frédéric Sauton in town’s fifth arrondissement, and open to the general public Oct. 15 and 16, from 11 a.m. to six p.m. CET. Greater than 1,200 individuals are expected to go to. Since 2018, previous House of Drunk pop-ups have been positioned in London, Singapore and Latest York. “We’re very focused on constructing brand love, driving awareness and recruiting latest consumers by sharing our unique product philosophy,” explained Barbara Calcagni, president global brands at Drunk Elephant, Nars and Tory Burch Beauty. “For the reason that acquisition...

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13 Mar

Violette Serrat to Create Guerlain Makeup: EXCLUSIVE

by Beautifaire101

Beauty, Featured

PARIS — Violette Serrat will grow to be the brand new creative director of makeup for Guerlain, WWD has learned. The news confirms a WWD report on July 16. On Aug. 1, Serrat, who goes by her first name professionally, will step into the position held for the past 21 years by Olivier Echaudemaison on the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton-owned house. For Serrat, accepting the role at Guerlain was obvious. “It’s just like the history of our country,” she said, of the practically 200-year-old house, during an exclusive interview with WWD. “It’s really deep within the roots of my story. I grew up [in Paris] this brand. The ladies around me — everybody had some products from Guerlain. So I assumed: ‘After I...

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