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13 May

Cher Plots Fragrance Launch, Talks Emojis, Retirement

Cher is enthusiastic about emojis.  Asked about them, her voice lights up.  “I started off with emojis because I’m dyslexic.…I also think, and that is what I believe is the genius of emoji, is emoji are like hieroglyphs,” Cher said.  “With one picture you may express more because you may see the expression, or after I’m saying something concerning the one who will remain nameless and I would like to say something that is just not nice but in a way that I can explain it, I’ll just throw those peanuts — and it’s like you understand that what I’m saying is, ‘He’s nuts,'” Cher said. She’s similarly excited by the prospect of talking about fragrance, her latest project, and the explanation she...
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9 May

Tracee Ellis Ross Talks Pattern Beauty’s Purpose, U.K. Expansion

Tracee Ellis Ross is taking her vision for Pattern across the pond. The actor and entrepreneur is launching product within the U.K. in an exclusive partnership with Boots, starting on Wednesday. For Ross, the move was a natural extension of her accessible vision for textured hair care. “The unique dream for the brand was to be a world brand because I feel that the curly and textured community is one which spans across the globe,” she told WWD. “I desired to expand that mission so that everyone has access to their most beautiful and healthy hair.” Boots made a super partner for the brand given its broad footprint. “85 percent of the U.K. population is inside 10 minutes of a Boots store,” she...
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3 May

Selena Gomez Talks Social Media at Rare Beauty Mental

Selena Gomez‘s Rare Beauty is urging people to call their family members as a part of a 2024 mental health awareness campaign called Make a Good Call. The campaign, introduced by the brand’s chief marketing officer Katie Welch at the corporate’s third annual Mental Health Summit in Latest York Wednesday, also includes an choice to call the Rare Beauty hotline and get a positive affirmation from someone at the corporate — including Gomez. “Rare Beauty is greater than a brand. That is what Selena desired to do. We’re about starting positive conversations around self acceptance and mental health,” Welch said. “We're changing and difficult these standards of perfection inside beauty and beyond by doing things like we’re doing today.” Guests on...
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2 Mar

Wakanda Eternally’ Lead Hairstylist, Camille Friend, Talks Showcasing Black

When the time to start filming for “Black Panther: Wakanda Eternally” rolled around in 2020, the very first thing director Ryan Coogler did was take the film’s solid and crew to go to Chadwick Boseman’s gravesite.  “Something magical happened there,” said Camille Friend, lead hairstylist for the “Black Panther” film series. “We got to wish and dance and sing, there have been drummers — I feel that moment healed everybody’s heart and allowed us to be like, ‘OK, we’re going to make ‘Wakanda Eternally’ — we’re going to do that for Chadwick.’” Boseman, who passed away in August 2020 resulting from stage-four colon cancer, played the titular role of the Black Panther, or T’Challah, within the series’ first film, which premiered in...
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