Brennan Kilbane

6 days 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.

1 week 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks ago | businessoffashion.com | Brennan Kilbane

In a bit of beauty industry news that could read like the result of a very niche Mad Lib: The actress Chloë Grace Moretz and the pop star Rina Sawayama have created a cyberpunk cosmetic line, called Godmode, catered toward female gamers. The label is the first to launch from Closer Brands, the incubator beneath the UK-based Closer Group, The Business of Beauty has learned.