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Beauty

Summer Fridays Struck Gold With Lip Balm. Can It Do the Same With Fragrance?

With its Lip Butter Balm still a top hero product, Marianna Hewitt and Lauren Ireland’s Summer Fridays expands as it evolves into a multi-category beauty brand.

Beauty

Summer Fridays Struck Gold With Lip Balm. Can It Do the Same With Fragrance?

With its Lip Butter Balm still a top hero product, Marianna Hewitt and Lauren Ireland’s Summer Fridays expands as it evolves into a multi-category beauty brand.


Beauty

Drunk Elephant Isn’t Shiseido’s Only Problem

Japan’s largest beauty company posted its first loss in decades after writing down Drunk Elephant. With a turnaround in progress, it needs to revisit its overall brand mix to prove it can — or can’t — evolve.

Beauty

Drunk Elephant Isn’t Shiseido’s Only Problem

Japan’s largest beauty company posted its first loss in decades after writing down Drunk Elephant. With a turnaround in progress, it needs to revisit its overall brand mix to prove it can — or can’t — evolve.


Beauty

Shiseido Faces Tough Turnaround After Costly Cosmetics Stumbles

Once a formidable challenger to L’Oréal and the Estée Lauder Companies, Japan's largest beauty conglomerate is navigating its biggest challenge in decades, hurt by a costly misfire in North America and pressure from international rivals.

Beauty

Shiseido Faces Tough Turnaround After Costly Cosmetics Stumbles

Once a formidable challenger to L’Oréal and the Estée Lauder Companies, Japan's largest beauty conglomerate is navigating its biggest challenge in decades, hurt by a costly misfire in North America and pressure from international rivals.


Beauty

Drunk Elephant’s New Motto: No Kids Allowed

With a new brand campaign and visual assets, the results-driven ‘clean’ beauty brand hopes to reinforce its original ethos and reclaim its core customer.

Beauty

Drunk Elephant’s New Motto: No Kids Allowed

With a new brand campaign and visual assets, the results-driven ‘clean’ beauty brand hopes to reinforce its original ethos and reclaim its core customer.


Beauty

The Best of BoF 2025: Innovation is King

Skincare brands are finding post-pandemic growth more elusive, as customers whittle down their routines and seek out expert-backed brands.

Beauty

The Best of BoF 2025: Innovation is King

Skincare brands are finding post-pandemic growth more elusive, as customers whittle down their routines and seek out expert-backed brands.


Beauty

Inside MCo Beauty’s $600 Million Dupe Business

The Australian makeup label has become the number one beauty brand in its native country, and is growing abroad, thanks to the popularity of its lower-priced alternatives to products from Estée Lauder, Dior and more.

Beauty

Inside MCo Beauty’s $600 Million Dupe Business

The Australian makeup label has become the number one beauty brand in its native country, and is growing abroad, thanks to the popularity of its lower-priced alternatives to products from Estée Lauder, Dior and more.


Beauty

How a Big Risk Paid Off for Patrick Starrr’s One/Size

This week, I take a look at the need for innovation in beauty, Drunk Elephant’s proposed comeback and Carisa Janes’ new makeup line.

Beauty

How a Big Risk Paid Off for Patrick Starrr’s One/Size

This week, I take a look at the need for innovation in beauty, Drunk Elephant’s proposed comeback and Carisa Janes’ new makeup line.


Executive Briefings

The Executive Briefing: Gen-Z Blues, Quiet Sustainability and One Big Sneaker Deal

This month, amid a lull in Trump’s trade war, two giant sneaker retailers merged, beauty’s Gen-Z strategy showed its age and fashion updated its sustainability pitch. Read on for your concise breakdown of May’s key developments from executive editor Brian Baskin.

Executive Briefings

The Executive Briefing: Gen-Z Blues, Quiet Sustainability and One Big Sneaker Deal

This month, amid a lull in Trump’s trade war, two giant sneaker retailers merged, beauty’s Gen-Z strategy showed its age and fashion updated its sustainability pitch. Read on for your concise breakdown of May’s key developments from executive editor Brian Baskin.


Beauty

Drunk Elephant Was Never for Kids

The clean beauty brand has faced significant challenges in the years since it was acquired by Shiseido, but its embrace of young consumers may have been its biggest misstep.

Beauty

Drunk Elephant Was Never for Kids

The clean beauty brand has faced significant challenges in the years since it was acquired by Shiseido, but its embrace of young consumers may have been its biggest misstep.


Beauty

Shiseido Earnings Decline 8.5%, Drunk Elephant Sales Slide 65%

The Japanese cosmetics giant reported an 8.5 percent decrease in sales on Monday, with particularly steep losses at the prestige skincare brand Drunk Elephant and its American and Chinese businesses.

Beauty

Shiseido Earnings Decline 8.5%, Drunk Elephant Sales Slide 65%

The Japanese cosmetics giant reported an 8.5 percent decrease in sales on Monday, with particularly steep losses at the prestige skincare brand Drunk Elephant and its American and Chinese businesses.