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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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26 Dec

Makeup Artist Laura Geller on 25 Years within the

Makeup Artist Laura Geller on 25 Years within the
Laura Geller made her name as a makeup artist behind the camera, working on television and film sets within the ’90s. But she built her namesake brand in front of the camera, as one in every of beauty’s first breakout stars on QVC. She made her debut on the channel in 1997, quickly selling out of 750 units of her first collection on her very first show. Called The Face Structuring Kit, it was a three-piece contouring kit with bronzer, highlighter and brush. “I got here off the set and just collapsed crying — I had never sold 750 of anything in my whole life, let alone one stockkeeping unit,” said Geller recently, recalling those early days during a full of life...
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20 Dec

30 years on from The Beauty Myth we ask

30 years on from The Beauty Myth we ask
The renowned creator on how the Kardashians are demystifying beauty and the commodification of the male body In 1991, feminist scholar Naomi Wolf published The Beauty Myth, a giant and daring work of nonfiction that put to paper the oppressive beauty ideals of the day. It cleverly traced the links between patriarchy, the ideals peddled in contemporary promoting and pornography and increased pressures for ladies to get surgery alongside rising numbers of eating disorder diagnoses.  “Western economies are absolutely depending on the continued underpayment of girls,” she wrote within the introduction. “An ideology that makes women feel ‘price less’ was urgently needed to counteract the best way feminism had begun to make us feel...
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17 Dec

Which future beauty subculture will you be a part

Which future beauty subculture will you be a part
From pale blue androids to facial recognition hackers and nature enthusiasts, future trend forecaster Geraldine Wharry predicts the sweetness subcultures that can reign within the near future As a part of our Selfridges x Dazed Beauty Space, a web based and physical pop-up experience – an area of resistance, imagination, and latest identities – we've been looking forward to the subsequent 100 years of beauty.  An exciting component of our research into the long run of cosmetics was working with fashion futuristic and trend forecaster Geraldine Wharry to predict six beauty subcultures from the long run. Based on Geraldine’s forecast, we will probably be dropping Instagram face filters centred on each subculture every week and we’ll...
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