Month: December 2019

EXCLUSIVE: Clean Beauty Brand Tower 28 to Enter Sephora Stores in 2020

Tower 28, the clean beauty company that launched in April, will be sold in 500 Sephora stores nationwide and in Canada on Jan. 17. “One of the things I really wanted was for our products to be really accessible,” shared founder Amy Liu on a morning in Los Angeles. “To me, part of that is […]

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The Biggest Fashion and Beauty Brand Controversies of 2019

2019 has had no shortage of brand controversies in the fashion and beauty worlds. The year started off with a number of gaffes from some of the biggest luxury fashion houses, in many cases resulting in public outcry, public apologies and, sometimes, changes in company policy. Some of the most notable fashion controversies of 2019 […]

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9 Holiday Cocktail Recipes From NYC’s Best New — and Classic — Restaurants

The holidays call for sweet, smoky drinks filled with warmth and mirth — New York City’s best bars and restaurants will be offering those good tidings this season. WWD has culled a list from new and classic haunts on what signature cocktails they’ll be serving. Check out the recipes below to try your hand at […]

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L’Oréal Brings Modiface Hair Color Try-ons to Google Lens

Ahead of CES in January, L’Oréal is pushing Modiface augmented reality and artificial intelligence work to new avenues, namely through Google Lens. The beauty brand recently started rolling out new Lens features that let consumers try on Garnier hair colors using their smartphone cameras. The effort stems in large part to the beauty giant’s 2018 […]

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Catching up With Saks Potts, Instagram’s Favorite Winter Coats

The fur industry might be attracting protest, but Saks Potts — a Copenhagen-based fashion and outerwear label — has Millennials and Gen-Z trendsetters lining up to buy its fox, lamb and mink-trimmed coats. Saks Potts has lured a new generation to expensive coats by making luxury outerwear part of larger pop culture. An endless list […]

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Jennifer Fisher Plots West Coast Expansion

Jennifer Fisher is heading west. The jewelry designer will open a Los Angeles boutique this spring, her second retail location and first on the West Coast. The 1,200-square-foot space, located at 450 North Cannon Drive, is strategically close enough to Rodeo Drive to attract tourists, but quiet enough to offer a sense of discovery and […]

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The Most Talked-About Celebrity Weddings of 2019

Among many things, 2019 has shaped up to be the year of the celebrity wedding. A host of Hollywood’s most buzzed-about couples held star-studded weddings this year — including the recent nuptials of Hilary Duff and Matthew Koma, Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney and Justin and Hailey Bieber — looking to some of fashion’s top […]

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Finishing Strong: Record ‘Super Saturday’ Reported

“Super Saturday” sales reached a record $34.4 billion, marking the industry’s largest single volume day in U.S. history, according to Customer Growth Partners, the research and consulting firm for the retail industry. CGP reported Monday that Super Saturday — the last Saturday before Christmas — beat last year’s record of $31.9 billion in sales by […]

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Canada’s Maison Birks Debuts ‘Hard Luxury’ Web Site

TORONTO — No brand lasts for 140 years without having its eye firmly planted on the future. Now Maison Birks, the retailer of luxury jewelry and timepieces since 1879, is putting the future on its radar once more as it expands its e-commerce capabilities and unveils what it claims is Canada’s largest and most comprehensive […]

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‘1917’ Propels George MacKay Forward

First, George MacKay makes himself a cup of tea. He’s been sequestered in a subterranean room at the Crosby Street Hotel for the first part of the day during a mid-December stop in New York, but he doesn’t seem to mind. There are few clues that the wide-eyed and wholesome British actor has been shuttling […]

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