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TIRELESS FUND-RAISER. PHOTOGRAPHER. PATRON OF THE ARTS. Mother, wife, dutiful--and beautiful--daughter-in-law. Breast cancer advocate and globe-hopping socialite. This is the public persona of Evelyn Lauder, and as those things go, [...]

The beauty marketer's dream is to divine the formula that will not only make a woman pick up a product but desire it enough to buy it. What crucial factors [...]

Byline: JENNY B. FINE PHOTOGRAPHS BY AHMED KLINK BEAUTY Charlotte Tilbury Charlotte Tilbury talks a mile a minute in a stream of fabulousness and bold pronouncements. 'Mine is a serious [...]

Health and beauty products suppliers are enjoying a financial rebirth, a trend that industry observers expect will continue into the 21st century. Suppliers such as LIR USA and Henlopen have benefited from the introduction of new streamlined packaging techniques. Henlopen in particular owes much of its success to its lipstick packaging, having made a name for itself in the 'slimline' airtight lipstick packaging category., NEW YORK -- Many vendors and retailers have been complaining about sluggish beauty sales, but not everyone is singing the blues. The industry's suppliers -- who provide fragrance, cosmetics and [...]

PARIS--The Top 75 presents the world's largest cosmetics companies, ranked according to total beauty sales. A Who's Who of the cosmetics industry these 76 firms (two companies tied for the [...]

Byline: JENNY B. FINE Photographs by EMMAN MONTALVAN READY OR NOT, HERE THEY COME! Comprising almost 25 percent of the population, Generation Z is sizable, social and has considerable spending [...]

Save the Date? Andy Warhol once quipped that he would attend the opening of an envelope, but even he might have balked at the number of beauty events there are [...]

Byline: EDITED BY PETE BORN By JENNY B. FINE Photograph by JENNA GREENE The K Way Suh Kyung-Bae has powered South Korea's AmorePacific to a leading position in the East. [...]

Byline: EDITED BY PETE BORN By JENNY B. FINE Real-Time Rules After a frenetic red-carpet awards season, mass beauty marketers are honing their approach to social media. During the latest [...]

Byline: BY JENNY B. FINE WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ANNA DYSINGER Beauty and the Buck THE SKY'S THE LIMIT WHEN IT COMES TO THE COST OF GETTING RED-CARPET READY. For an [...]

Byline: -JENNY B. FINE In This Issue Unless you've been living under a rock, you've doubtless heard of the Ice Bucket Challenge to support ALS research. The Challenge involves people [...]

Byline: BY JENNY B. FINE ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHANIE DALTON COWAN THE EVER-EXPANDING SOCIAL ORBIT AS DIGITAL BECOMES A CORE COMPONENT OF BEAUTY MARKETING, BRANDS ARE RETHINKING THE VERY ESSENCE OF [...]

Byline: -JENNY B. FINE Like-Minded Spirits DREW BARRYMORE and GUCCI WESTMAN dish on their favorite topic-beauty. Introduced by their mutual friend Cameron Diaz about 15 years ago, Drew Barrymore and [...]

FASHION QUEENS Jane Larkworthy's pithy writing has made the W magazine beauty director one of the most influential voices in the business in print and online. Now her pet poodle, [...]

In This Issue 08*****Pete Unplugged WWD 's executive editor of beauty, Pete Born, gets a first look at industry legend Andrea Q. Robinson's newest venture. 10*****Take Note Rounding up spring's [...]

LASER SHARP WITH A SLEW OF NEW DEVICES SET TO HIT THE MARKET, RETAILERS AND MARKETERS ARE MORE FOCUSED ON THE CATEGORY THAN EVER BEFORE. Talk about a category with [...]

THE IDEA SHAPERS INSIGHT INTO THE EVOLUTION OF THE CHINESE MARKET FROM THOSE WHO KNOW IT BEST-THE COUNTRY'S MOST INFLUENTIAL BEAUTY EDITORS. While China remains one of the most important [...]

QUEEN OF THE HIGHWAY Renée Rouleau is an unlikely motorcycle mama. The Dallas-based aesthetician and entrepreneur, whose namesake spa and skin-care line are favorites of Lone Star State socialites and [...]

TALKIN' ABOUT A REVOLUTION MARIGAY MCKEE REVEALS HER PLANS FOR REVITALIZING AN ICON OF AMERICAN RETAILING. Eight days into her tenure as president of Saks Fifth Avenue and Marigay McKee [...]

The Merchant of Wow JENNY B. FINE Forty years ago, Leslie H. Wexner, always an avid reader, made the decision to eschew fiction in favor of history and biographies because, [...]

Where Business and Pleasure Live Her focus is makeup, his is hair, but when it comes to beauty, the entrepreneurially minded SONIA KASHUK and DANIEL KANER share a common drive [...]

Life in the Fast Lane JENNY B. FINE Earlier in his career, Coty Inc. chief executive officer Michele Scannavini worked at Ferrari as the commercial and marketing director, where his [...]

SETTING THE PACE BY JENNY B. FINE / PHOTOGRAPHED BY JILL GREENBERG WHETHER TOOLING AROUND TOWN ON A VESPA OR OVERSEEING AN IPO, COTY'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER MICHELE SCANNAVINI IS [...]

The Transformers JENNY B. FINE As I was making my way through Interwoven Globe, a fascinating exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that covers the worldwide textile trade from [...]

Prestige Beauty Site Unveiled by Amazon By JENNY B. FINE With the launch on Thursday of the Luxury Beauty Store, Amazon.com hopes to revolutionize how and as importantly, where prestige [...]

THE INNOVATION EXCHANGE COMPILED BY JENNY B. FINE / ILLUSTRATION BY MIKE LEMANSKI WE ASKED SIX PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT SECTORS OF THE INDUSTRY TO OPINE ON THE NATURE OF INNOVATION [...]

Beauty 2020 JENNY B. FINE Deb Henretta of Procter & Gamble didn't pull any punches in her opening address at the 2013 WWD Beauty Summit. 'We have to step it [...]

EXPRESS Your self BY JENNY B. FINE / PHOTOGRAPHED BY JASON KIM MEET THE MILLENNIALS, A GROUP THAT LOOKS SET TO CHANGE THE FACE OF BEAUTY AS WE KNOW IT. [...]

LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL BY JENNY B. FINE / PHOTOGRAPHED BY JAKE CHESSUM AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE ESTÃE LAUDER COS., FABRIZIO FREDA HAS CREATED ONE OF THE [...]

A Bountiful Fall JENNY B. FINE A cavalcade of new launches looks to provide a much-needed boost to fragrance sales for the second half of the year. Can One Direction, [...]

Ups and Downs JENNY B. FINE If any proof were needed that 2012 was a tumultuous year for the global beauty industry, look no further than the 2012 WWD Beauty [...]

Creation Nation JENNY B. FINE When we were generating ideas for this, the first issue of WWD Beauty Inc devoted to creativity, I knew there could be only one cover [...]

IN LIVING COLOR BY JENNY B. FINE BY COMBINING TECHNICAL VIRTUOSITY WITH A SINGULAR VISION, PAT MCGRATH HAS BECOME THE MOST INFLUENTIAL TRENDSETTER IN MAKEUP. McGrath working on model Alana [...]

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE BY JENNY B. FINE ILLUSTRATION BY AMELIE HEGARDT HISTORICALLY, FASHION DESIGNERS HAVE FOUND THE MAKEUP COUNTER HOSTILE TERRITORY FOR EXPANSION. BUT AS A NEW GENERATION OF CONSUMERS [...]

The Spirit of The Moment BY JENNY B. FINE / PHOTOGRAPHED BY MICHAEL NAGLE When it comes to creating eye-catching brand campaigns, Neil Kraft has a knack for the knock-out. [...]

Byline: BY JENNY B. FINE PHOTOGRAPHED BY MICHAEL NAGLE The Laugh Master For Benefit Cosmetics' Aurelian Lis, having fun is all in a day's work. 'We are spending so much [...]

Byline: JENNY B. FINE Going for the Growth The book Granularity of Growth was published in 2008, but it is a concept that has become especially ubiquitous today in beauty [...]

Byline: BY JENNY B. FINE ILLUSTRATION BY CHRIS RUBINO Ready OR Not AMAZON IS READY TO MAKE A BIG PUSH IN BEAUTY. BUT IS BEAUTY READY FOR AMAZON? THE BIGGEST [...]

Byline: BY JENNY B. FINE / PHOTOGRAPHED BY MICHAEL NAGLE Power to the People Ever since her days as a teenage beauty buyer at her father's drugstore, Thia Breen has [...]

Byline: JENNY B. FINE The State of the Store Last year, beauty sales in the food, drug and mass channel gained just 3 percent to $21.2 billion, according to Symphony [...]

Several small firms are entering the skin care market which is dominated by Estee Lauder, Clinique, and Lancome. Paul Masturzo and Mana Products Corp are in the process of resurrecting Ermo Laszlo after they purchased it from Unilever in 1995. Thalasso is introducing a seaweed-based line, Ilona of Hungary is using color cosmetics to enter the market, and Babor has decided to embark on a major marketing effort in the US., NEW YORK -- While small and innovative makeup artist brands, such as MAC and Bobbi Brown, have successfully infiltrated the department store cosmetics business, the skin care arena has been [...]

Byline: BY JENNY B. FINE PHOTOGRAPHED BY ROBERT NETHERY INDULGE ME DESPITE THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SCENES IN THE U.S., HIGH-END COSMETICS ARE SETTING SALES RECORDS, AS [...]

Byline: JENNY B. FINE Boom Times When Leonard Lauder created his famous term, the Lipstick Index, to illustrate the resilience of beauty during times of recession, it's safe to say [...]

Byline: BY JENNY B. FINE ILLUSTRATION BY MILES DONOVAN THE GENIUS FILES IN AN INDUSTRY DRIVEN BY INNOVATION, SCIENTISTS HOLD THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM. TO DISCOVER WHAT THE FUTURE [...]

Byline: JENNY B. FINE Olay Pro-X Even Skin Tone Treatment 'Have you ever been in a store and you see someone straightening the shelves?' laughingly asks Rosemarie Osborne, research fellow [...]

Byline: JENNY B. FINE The Discovery Channel Scientific breakthroughs power beauty forward. Hyaluronic acid, alpha hydroxy, peptides, sulfate-free shampoosthe list of innovations goes on and on, and chances are it's [...]

Byline: BY JENNY B. FINE / PHOTOGRAPHED BY JEFF RIEDEL FORGING A NEW MODEL BY RESOLUTELY PURSUING THEIR OWN VISION OF HOW WOMEN WANT TO SHOP TODAY, DAVID SULITEANU AND [...]

Byline: BY JENNY B. FINE PHOTOGRAPHED BY MICHAEL NAGLE The Drive to Thrive Success hasn't mellowed Frédéric Fekkai. Having parlayed his superstar hairstylist status into a multimillion-dollar brand (and selling [...]

Byline: JENNY B. FINE O Pioneers! David Suliteanu is an unlikely revolutionary. A retail veteran, he began his career at Bullocks in Los Angeles and steadily worked his way up [...]