Category: Color
Category: Color
Category: Color
Category: Skin care
Category: Color
Category: Hair care
Category: Fragrance
Category: Color
Category: Skin care
Category: Color
Category: Body care
Category: Skin care
Category: Skin care
Category: Fragrance
Clé de Peau’s Mediterranean Voyage
Clé de Peau Beauté, the 30-year-old beauty brand that fuses cutting-edge Japanese science with modern French elegance, has a lot to celebrate this Oscar season. The face of the brand, Amanda Seyfriend, who stars in the much-decorated Les Misérables, hosted a screening of the film for top beauty editors, while introducing the ultraluxe line’s latest skin care and color launches.
Clé de Peau, which means “the key to skin” in French, will introduce this month what it’s billing as two groundbreaking skin care launches. The brand is sold at Barneys New York, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, as well as select Nordstrom and Saks Fifth Avenue locations nationwide.
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February 21, 2013
Beauty and Beyond
$250,000 was raised for The James E. Marshall OCD Foundation at the ninth annual Beyond Beauty Dinner on February 12—an event that contributes to genetic research, education and grant funding for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder-related illnesses.
The event was given its name by Cosmetic World’s own publisher and editor emeritus, John Ledes, revealed the foundation’s founder from the podium, Linda Marshall, who is also president of Elysée Scientific Cosmetics.
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February 21, 2013
CEW, NPD Team to Glean Industry Trends
Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) hosted its first-ever Trendspotting event on February 5 in partnership with market research firm The NPD Group to present cross-category sales results for 2012, global beauty industry trends, consumer research findings and more.
The event was sponsored by Mane. “We live in a ‘today’ world,” said Mane’s senior vice president of fine fragrance, Westly Morris, “and it’s a great opportunity to support an event dealing with hot-off-the-press information being shared with our clients and the industry at the first major gathering of the new year.”
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February 20, 2013
Maybelline’s Bountiful 2013
Maybelline New York is kicking off the New Year with a slew of launches set to bolster its top-selling color offer.
The mascara authority will launch this month The Rocket by Volum’Express, priced at $7.77 for 0.3 oz., and available in three washable and two waterproof shades. It boasts a “supersonic” brush with a rigid core and micro-bristles, as well as a fast-glide gellant formula that contains micronized pigments and thickening agents.
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February 5, 2013
Shiseido’s Spring Awakening
Shiseido Cosmetics America unveiled its latest launches for spring—as well as introduced editors to the new face of its color creations, Sui He—during a breakfast at The Modern restaurant in New York City. The brand is currently sponsoring an exhibition at MoMA entitled Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde, chronicling the transformation of the war-torn capital city into a center for art, culture and commerce.
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February 5, 2013
La Prairie Hones Diamond Exfoliants
La Prairie is incorporating its gem proficiency and taste for luxury into what dermatologists say is one of the most essential steps in any skin care regimen: exfoliation.
The brand hosted an editors’ event in which its New York City headquarters had been transformed into a spa-like space to unveil Cellular Mineral Face Exfoliator and Cellular Mineral Body Exfoliator—both launching in February.
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February 5, 2013
Just-Formed Omni Scents To Launch Miss Universe Fragrance Trio!
The Miss Universe Organization is adding another jewel to its crown with the announcement of three branded fragrances inspired by Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA. The deal was inked with the newly-founded, Florida-based Omni Scents, helmed by industry veterans Neil Katz and Lucien Lallouz.
The license was unveiled just as Miss USA, Olivia Culpo, was crowned Miss Universe on December 19 in Las Vegas—the first American to do so since 1997.
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January 14, 2013
Ivanka Trump Breaks Olfactive Ground
Ivanka Trump is adding another lucrative category to her growing empire. The businesswoman, Apprentice star, mother and creator of jewelry, shoes, handbags, fashion and accessories will introduce next month her debut fragrance, an eponymous floral oriental.
Creating a scent that would “stand the test of time” and that was “transitional in the sense that it could take consumers from day to evening, from the boardroom to black tie,” was essential in the conception of the perfume, Trump said at an exclusive breakfast launch event last month at Jean-Georges.
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January 14, 2013
Monteil Paris' Brightening Mission
Founded in 1936 by Germaine Monteil, acquired by the German Wilde Group 70 years later and merged with leading European biotech company Brain AG in 2011, the prestige cosmetics brand Monteil Paris is harnessing its storied past and tech-focused present for a brand new brightening skin care collection entitled Perlance Blanc Pur.
Launching next month, the products reportedly target dark spots, age spots and irregular pigmentation via active ingredients that disturb the melanogenesis process—or the darkening effect that’s produced as a protective reaction against UV light. Active key ingredients include Illumiscin, SulforaWhite and SphingosomeMoist.
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January 11, 2013
EC Scott Group
Fall And Holiday Training Conference
EC Scott Group’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Mark Scott, recently held a National Sales and Training Conference in Manchester, Vermont, at the Equinox resort bringing together all 60 employees with the goal of sharing ideas and preparing for the Fall and Holiday season. EC Scott Group specializes in bringing prestige brands to independent retailers. “We are first and foremost a sales, service and training company,” Mr. Scott explained. “EC Scott Group delivers comprehensive product training, customer service, and merchandising excellence to the independent retailer, as well as opportunities to all channels of the Military.”
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January 4, 2013
MAC Unveils 5th Avenue Flagship
Following the launch of its first-ever flagship store in Times Square roughly three years ago, MAC has arrived on Fifth Avenue with a shiny new outpost on one of the word’s most illustrious shopping streets.
The brand inaugurated the new space with a boudoir-themed fête featuring a performance by Sami and the Crooners, followed by a warm welcome from Leonard Lauder, chairman emeritus of The Estée Lauder Companies.
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December 14, 2012
A Season of Giving
The Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) Foundation hosted its annual Beauty of Giving Luncheon and Live Auction on December 7 at The Waldorf-Astoria. P&G was honored for its longstanding support of the Foundation’s Cancer and Careers program, which strives to empower and educate working people who are battling cancer via community outreach, online and teleconference career advice, free publications and support groups.
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December 13, 2012
CEW Chats Prestige Marketing
During the latest installment of Cosmetic Executive Women’s (CEW) Women & Men in Beauty Series, brand leaders shared strategy and insight during a presentation at the Harmonie Club on November 29 entitled Prestige Skin Care’s Top Innovators. Featured speakers included Charisse Ford, SVP of global marketing for Estée Lauder; Silvia Galfo, SVP, U.S. marketing for Lancôme; and Tomoko Yamagishi-Dressler, SVP of marketing for Shiseido Cosmetics America.
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December 7, 2012
Glamour Gala Fêtes Women of the Year
Honorees spanning the worlds of entertainment, business, art, fashion and politics were celebrated at Carnegie Hall for Glamour’s 2012 Women of the Year gala, sponsored by L’Oréal Paris. Held in the shadow of Hurricane Sandy, the efforts of women throughout local communities in the Northeast were also recognized at the event.
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December 7, 2012
Beauty Bazaar Lands In Liverpool!
Local Liverpudlians, top Harvey Nichols executives and a handful of WAGs (‘wives and girlfriends’ of England’s top footballers) thronged an unveiling of the retailer’s unprecedented Beauty Bazaar store on November 9 here in Liverpool. American socialite Olivia Palermo cut a diamond-studded black ribbon to mark the occasion.
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November 16, 2012
Ladies Who Launch: CEW Fêtes Achievers
Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) honored five of the industry’s most luminous female executives at the organization’s 37th Annual Achiever Awards luncheon on November 12.
Recipients included Jill Belasco, founder and CEO of CoScentrix; Laurie Black, EVP, GMM, cosmetics for Nordstrom; and Alina Roytberg, co-president and co-founder of Fresh.
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November 16, 2012
Victorinox Taps Swiss Forests
Inspired by lush Swiss landscapes and the brand’s own über-masculine DNA, famed knifemaker Victorinox is bringing to market an all-new men’s fragrance entitled Swiss Army Forest. Available at Bloomingdale’s, Lord & Taylor and on swissarmy.com, Forest is “an explosion of freshness that incorporates authentic Swiss ingredients,” said Matthias Seyfang, CEO of Victorinox Swiss Army Fragrance.
The juice was developed by Firmenich perfumers Jean-Pierre Bethouart and Fabrice Pellegrin, who sought to strike a contrast between deep, woody warmth and a burst of light citrus, Victorinox said. Forest features notes of lemon, juniper and nutmeg atop a heart of clary sage, viola leaves and cedar that dries down with cypress, Siberian pine and wood moss.
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November 16, 2012
StriVectin’s Overnight Remedy
Next January, StriVectin is bringing to market its latest skin care breakthrough: a night treatment cream combining the gold standard anti-aging ingredient, retinol, with the brand’s proprietary
NIA-114 molecule. Entitled StriVectin-AR Advanced Retinol Night Treatment, it will be priced at $109.00 for 1.7 oz.
StriVectin—whose motto is “faster, smarter anti-aging,” said the company’s vice president of marketing, Frederic Arbel—is sold at department and specialty retailers nationwide including QVC, Ulta and Macy’s, as well as on StriVectin.com.
In combination with retinol, NIA-114 not only helps fuel the conversion of retinol to its more efficacious and bioactive form of retinoic acid, but it also strengthens the skin’s barrier, reducing sensitivity to retinol’s oft-felt irritating side effects.
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October 25, 2012
Lisa Hoffman to Team with Tom Binns
In a cross-category partnership featuring scent-delivery technology that represents an industry first, Lisa Hoffman will introduce this month a fragrance jewelry collection alongside the Dada-influenced, cult-favorite jewelry designer Tom Binns.
The collaboration—which comprises pendant necklaces, cuff bracelets and earrings—represents a new venture for both parties, Hoffman told Cosmetic World in an exclusive interview at the Mandarin Oriental hotel. The pieces boast bean-like forms with perforated surfaces meant to evoke the liquid flow of mercury, and each contains Hoffman’s proprietary wooden fragrance beads infused with her five signature scents.
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October 24, 2012
Stars Shine at SCF Gala
Brooke Shields, True Blood star Nelsan Ellis, Katie Lee Joel, past and present castmates from the The Real Housewives of New York City and more turned up to fête The Skin Cancer Foundation’s annual gala on October 9 at The Plaza hotel.
Hosted by Good Morning America weather anchor Sam Champion and Extra’s Jerry Penacoli, the gala honored PGA Tour’s Allison Keller, Genentech’s Rick Fair and Self editor in chief Lucy Danziger. Guests were also treated to a performance by upcoming singer-songwriter Peter Cincotti.
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October 23, 2012
Lauder’s BCA Campaign Marks 20-Year Milestone
In celebration of its 20-year war waged against breast cancer and in commemoration of the life and legacy of Breast Cancer Awareness (BCA) Campaign founder Evelyn Lauder, The Estée Lauder Companies will introduce myriad localized, digital and grassroots initiatives this month as part of its unceasing efforts to obliterate the disease.
On October 1, William Lauder, executive chairman of The Estée Lauder Companies, made the rounds with Lauder spokesmodel Elizabeth Hurley to promote the new campaign, whose theme is, “Courage. Believe in a world without breast cancer. Know we’re here until it’s true.”
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October 22, 2012