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9 Jan

Lionel Messi to Unveil Fragrance at Cosmoprof NA Miami

Lionel Messi to Unveil Fragrance at Cosmoprof NA Miami
Cosmoprof North America is bringing a slew of recent brands to its first Miami Edition next month — including one from a famed soccer star. Lionel Messi can be unveiling his eponymous fragrance brand, Messi Fragrance, on the event, which is able to happen Jan. 23. Messi created the fragrance with licensee Game On Product Group, which can be distributing it globally upon its launch later in 2024. Other brands exhibiting on the show are also recent to the sport. An announcement from Cosmoprof North America said greater than half of the exhibitors are recent brands that haven’t previously shown at Cosmoprof North America’s annual Las Vegas event. Messi is the most recent in an extended line of celebrity fragrance players. Beyoncé launched...
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9 Jan

Pharrell’s Humanrace Launches Body Cream – WWD

Pharrell’s Humanrace Launches Body Cream – WWD
Humanrace, the product company cofounded by Pharrell Williams, goes larger on body care. The brand will introduce the Humidifying Body Cream on its website on Thursday. It's priced at $54 for the total product, and $50 for refills. It's an extension of the brand’s Humidifying Face Cream, one in all its first stock keeping units. “The Humidifying Face Cream has been a real winner for us,” said Rachel Muscat, Humanrace’s cofounder and president. “We’ve won awards for it and it continues to be one where we have now each female and male consumers coming to us.” The brand includes snow mushroom extract, which Muscat said works in a different way depending on users’ skin types. The body cream, nevertheless, also includes bakuchiol, a...
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8 Jan

Yves Saint Laurent Beauté Launches Global Sustainability Program –

Yves Saint Laurent Beauté Launches Global Sustainability Program –
PARIS — Yves Saint Laurent Beauté has teamed with Re:wild, an NGO, on a sustainability program aimed toward protecting biodiversity. Dubbed Rewild Our Earth, it's the brand’s broadest eco-related commitment so far. “We at all times attempt to be relevant and consistent, and resonate with the spirit, mind-set, DNA and codes of Monsieur Saint Laurent,” explained Stephan Bezy, international general manager of Yves Saint Laurent Beauté, at L’Oréal. He cited the designer’s famous phrase: “J’ai participé à la transformation de mon époque.” (Which translates to: “I participated within the transformation of my era.”) Saint Laurent was at all times of the moment. When feminism was on the rise within the ’60s, he offered women a wardrobe chockablock with what had been men’s traditional clothing,...
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7 Jan

How Beauty Grew in 20 Years, From 2001 to

How Beauty Grew in 20 Years, From 2001 to
The numbers, as they are saying, never lie.  Compare beauty business stats of 20 years ago to the stats of today, and an image of a really dynamic — and equally resilient —global industry emerges. In 2001, the primary yr of Beauty Inc (then “WWD Beauty Biz,” prestige beauty sales totaled $7 billion within the U.S., per numbers from the NPD Group. In today’s terms, that’s lower than 1 / 4 of L’Oréal’s global beauty sales in 2020, the number-one beauty manufacturers then and now. Category-by-category, makeup and skincare sales have almost tripled within the U.S, and the retail scene can be very different. Globally, the rise of China has had a transformational impact on the industry.    The WWD Beauty Inc Top 100...
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