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Akt London, Yse Beauty and Ruka Are the Winners of The Business of Beauty Global Awards Breakthrough Track

1 week ago | businessoffashion.com | Daniela Morosini |Liz Flora |Brennan Kilbane

NAPA, CALIFORNIA — As The Business of Beauty Global Forum 2025 drew to a close on Tuesday night, guests were excitedly awaiting the reveal of this year’s The Business of Beauty Global Beauty Awards winners. At the farewell gala, after guests listened to insightful and moving talks from the likes of founder and creative director of Rhode Hailey Bieber and co-CEO and founder of Pattern Beauty Tracee Ellis Ross, the members of the Global Awards jury were ready to unveil their selection.
Manasi 7, Unifrom and Commune Are the Winners of The Business of Beauty Global Awards Emerging Track

1 week ago | businessoffashion.com | Daniela Morosini |Liz Flora |Brennan Kilbane

NAPA, CALIFORNIA — On the final evening of The Business of Beauty Global Forum 2025 on Tuesday, guests gathered for a celebratory dinner to honour this year’s cohort of The Business of Beauty Global Awards winners. Throughout the week, guests had been able to discover the brands’ products throughout the Global Forum via a showcase of each line’s collections.
Katrina Kaif’s Kay Beauty to Launch at Space NK | BoF

2 weeks ago | businessoffashion.com | Brennan Kilbane

The UK beauty boutique has a global exclusive on the Indian mass cosmetics brand, which was launched in partnership with retailer Nykaa.
The Year Pride Went Beige

3 weeks ago | businessoffashion.com | Brennan Kilbane |Liz Flora

For the past half-decade, Connor Clary has racked up tens of millions of TikTok likes for his sardonic reviews of branded Pride collections. In previous years, he poked fun at what he dubs a “rainbow barf” aesthetic, including a Target shirt saying, “Sorry, can’t think straight” with a picture of a rainbow-hued brain or a bright green boilersuit with the word “Gay” plastered in yellow across the back.
Longtime Beauty Editor Jane Larkworthy Dies at 62

3 weeks ago | businessoffashion.com | Brennan Kilbane

Jane Larkworthy, the former beauty director of W magazine and a fixture in the New York beauty community, died on Wednesday following a battle with cancer, her family members confirmed to Women’s Wear Daily. She was 62. Larkworthy joined W magazine in 2000 and stewarded its beauty coverage until 2016. More recently, she served as a columnist for New York Magazine’s The Cut and a contributor for Linda Wells’ Air Mail Look.
Beauty’s Hottest New Trend: The Founder Buyback

3 weeks ago | businessoffashion.com | Brennan Kilbane

On Tuesday, influencer-turned-mogul Huda Kattan announced that she had regained majority ownership of her eponymous makeup brand, Huda Beauty, after buying back the minority stake private equity firm TSG Consumer Partners took in 2017, The Business of Beauty reported. The news arrived months after Kattan’s sister Mona Kattan purchased Kayali, the fragrance brand she co-founded, alongside PE firm General Atlantic; that transaction set up funding for Huda Beauty’s buyback.
Quince Enters the Beauty Marketplace

3 weeks ago | businessoffashion.com | Brennan Kilbane |Liz Flora

Quince, the direct-to-consumer retailer known for its accessibly-priced products across fashion, home and jewelry, has announced its foray into skincare with The Beauty Atelier by Quince, a luxury beauty marketplace that launched on Wednesday morning. The Beauty Atelier by Quince opens with an assortment of skincare best-sellers from Augustinus Bader, 111Skin and Irene Forte, with price points between $180 and $305. Shoppers earn 30 percent of their purchases back as Quince store credit.
E.l.f. Acquires Hailey Bieber’s Rhode for $1 Billion

1 month ago | businessoffashion.com | Priya Rao |Brennan Kilbane

E.l.f announced Wednesday it will acquire Hailey Bieber’s Rhode for $1 billion, in a blockbuster deal that brings Gen-Z’s buzziest brand into the fold of the industry’s most disruptive conglomerate. Since it was founded in 2022, Rhode has quickly become the darling of the global beauty market, celebrated for its high-tech yet accessible skincare formulas and its aspirational creative.
E.l.f. Beauty Announces $1 Price Hike, Citing Inflation and Tariffs

1 month ago | businessoffashion.com | Brennan Kilbane

E.l.f. will raise the price of its products by $1 starting in August 1, according to an Instagram post published on the brand’s account on Friday. “Not gonna lie, inflation and tariffs are hitting us hard,” read the announcement, written in Gen-Z-friendly language, with an emoji of a downward line chart. The post emphasised that 75 percent of E.l.f.’s products, which span makeup, skincare and tools, will remain under $10.
How Tursian Builds Off Deciem Founder’s Legacy

1 month ago | businessoffashion.com | Brennan Kilbane

On the surface, there is very little that seems sentimental about Tursian, a new-to-market skincare brand that sells, among other things, a tube of Y-3 Youth Restore Serum Concentrate for the matter-of-fact price of $300. Perhaps that’s an advantage in the current beauty market, with customers increasingly choosing value over vibes.