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David Homer, president, Halston Borghese Inc. North America, has been a corporate man, but prefers entrepreneur, in the true sense of Charles Revson or other founders of this industry. In [...]

Dr. Jack Mausner, senior vice president, Chanel, Inc., who heads up its research and development laboratories, is not the stereotypical scientist -- the man in the white coat with a [...]

One of the greatest haircutting geniuses of this century, Vidal Sassoon, the man who revolutionized hair styles for men and women, strongly recommends his profession for young people. 'If today's [...]

According to Dorothy C. Foster, president, DCF International, (NY), industry consultants are not only here to stay but will be a major playing force in the 90s. Where once they [...]

Laid back like a true Californian, warm, witty and good looking, Bob Mackie charmingly hides the dynamic, workaholic qualities which have made him the 'Designer to the Stars' and a [...]

For those who know Georges Gotlib personally, it's no surprise to learn that he would take to China like a duck to water. His soft-spoken gracious ways, coupled with his [...]

Gerard Semhon, president and chief executive officer, Integrated Management Group, his newly formed consultancy, is well-known to the cosmetics industry, having directed small to medium-sized companies as well as large [...]

Reports last July that Flori Roberts, Inc. had been purchased for $20 million in cash and stock by IVAX raised some questions: could Flori Roberts, who had created and developed [...]

Richard G. Hartigan, president/ceo, Lancaster Group USA Inc., a division of Lancaster Group AG, Germany's leading cosmetics and fragrance manufacturer (in turn, part of Joh. A. Benckiser GmbH, Ludwigshafen, Germany), [...]

Few consultants are usually on the hunt for clients, but in the case of Marvin Traub and his partner, Lester Gribetz, clients have been seeking them out even before the [...]

Antoine Maintz, new president of Colonia, Inc. (which becomes Muelhens, Inc. on July 1) spends much time flying all around his new American turf, as well as on monthly trips [...]

Hot, Hot, Hot, theme for the new Quintessence fragrance Caliente, also describes the impact of that company's acquisition last year by Benckiser Consumer Products Inc. (American subsidiary of Joh. A. [...]

From consultant to chief executive officer in five years is no mean achievement, but beauty and brains have combined to help Gloria Maccaroni fly that rapidly around 'the fast track.' [...]

If you have a new product you want to introduce, but aren't sure how to go about it, or if you are a foreign company wanting to enter the U.S. [...]

EDITH WEINER, FUTURIST Futurist is not upscale language for fortune teller, but (according to Edith Weiner, president of Weiner Edrich Brown Inc., 200 W. 33rd Street, New York, NY 10016) [...]

By some marketers' reckoning, the 'bread and butter' of the cosmetic business is comprised of mass-marketed products, and the core of that is the less expensive lines that crank out [...]

Today's buzzwords to describe cosmetic lines which purport to be formulated for hispanic, black or Asian women are called 'ethnic' or 'for women for color.' But to Stanley Acker, president [...]

An apt phrase to describe Anita Mott (president of Paramex Management Corp., 505 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10018) would seem to be 'true grit,' since for the past eight [...]

With relatively little fanfare, William P. Lauder, older son of Leonard and Evelyn, grandson of Estee and Joseph, has taken his place in the family company. With the title of [...]

NAIL CARE FOR FIRST LADY Jessica Vartoughian, the founder and spokesperson for Jessica Cosmetics, Inc., is utterly convinced that nail care for hands and feet is as important to a [...]

Being an expert in market research doesn't make one a celebrity in the cosmetic business, but Robert J. Posten, senior vice-president at The Landis Group (1551 Forum Place, West Palm [...]

SHISEIDO'S WANIKAWA That Shiseido is a giant in the cosmetic business is hardly a secret. Its annual retail sales of $3.5 billion makes it one of the three largest in [...]

PATTI UPTON: SCENTS FOR THE HOME Her soft twang and roots may be pure Arkansas, but there is nothing 'Hee Haw' about Patricia P. 'Patti' Upton, president of Aromatique, Inc., [...]

RONCHETTI: MAN OF MANY FACES Joseph F. Ronchetti, president of worldwide operations for Elizabeth Arden Inc. and president of the BethCo Fragrance Division, has many faces. He is a corporate [...]

VICKY TIEL: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS While other young designers were dreaming of conquering the Big Apple, at 19 Vicky Tiel took off to challenge Paris. A native of Maryland [...]

OLEG CASSINI: BACK INTO THE FRAY While his name evokes memories of the Kennedys and their Camelot (his dress creations for Jackie Kennedy having established her as a fashion leader), [...]

SHULTON'S TOM KUHN After earning an MBA in marketing at George Washington University, Tom Kuhn joined Shulton Inc. and climbed over a ten-year period to strategic business unit director. In [...]

SANOFI'S AIKEN: 3RD & GROWING Given the fact that Sanofi ranks third in annual sales of fragrances worldwide (just behind L'Oreal and Estee Lauder), and that last November it paid [...]

Fastest growing ethnic market is Hispanic-Ameri - cans, whose 27 million matches the entire population of Canada. Since 1980 it has grown 35 percent, five times greater than the overall [...]

Like Caesar, Giorgio's Fred Hayman can gloat 'I came, I saw, I conquered.' From out of the West (Beverly Hills) he came, taking the country by storm with his Giorgio [...]

It's been ten years since Madeleine Mono trotter her Kajal Indian Eyes Pencils 'round to Henri Bendel and found in Karol Kempster a receptive and enthusiastic buyer for them. Indeed, [...]

Though 'Avon Calling' may be the front door-opener of the past (since too often no one is at home to hear it in about half the American two-job households), Avon [...]

Finance, fashion and fragrance are the words which define the progression in the fast-paced career of Robert H. Miller, the 44-year-old president-chief executive officer of Squibb's Ritz Group Ltd. A [...]

MARC ROSEN: DESIGNER OF NOTE In spite of the current merger/acquisition mayhem, which hasn't been particularly encouraging to innovativeness and inventiveness in the cosmetic business, there still lurks in the [...]

ROSE MARY WORTHEN & RUBIGLO Those of us who remember Rubigo's 1980 launch at Macy's marveled at the tiny, cork-topped urn with its earth-tone powder which was touted as being [...]

FRED HAYMAN: A MASTER SHOWMAN MAKES A RETURN As befits a legend, Fred Hayman marked his official return to the fragrance industry with a million dollar Hollywood bash. The refurbishing [...]