James Manso

New York

Beauty and Fashion Market Editor at Women's Wear Daily (WWD)

Beauty market editor @WWD | Bylines at @LOfficielUSA, @DuJourMedia. Opinions are my own. [email protected].

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Dior Beauty Opens New Boutique in Miami

1 week ago | wwd.com | James Manso

Fresh on the heels of a Southern Calif. flagship opening, Dior Beauty is already looking at a new market for brick-and-mortar. The company opened a new boutique at Brickell City Centre in Miami Tuesday, which boasts the brand's fragrance, makeup and skin care offerings.
E.l.f. Beauty to Acquire Hailey Bieber's Rhode in $1 Billion Deal

1 week ago | wwd.com | Kathryn Hopkins |James Manso

Beauty has a new billion-dollar baby: Hailey Bieber. E.l.f. Beauty has reached an agreement to acquire Bieber's beauty brand Rhode in a deal valuing it at $1 billion, the companies jointly revealed Wednesday. The news comes just a month after WWD reported that Rhode had hired JP Morgan and Moelis to explore deal options. "They support founders, they want to help push the founders' vision and get behind them," Bieber said of the deal with E.l.f. in an interview with WWD.
Glossier Is Landing in France, With Help From Sephora

1 week ago | wwd.com | James Manso

Glossier and Sephora are taking their partnership to a new market. The beauty brand is entering Sephora France on June 13 in the retailer's app, and is debuting in-store and on Sephora.fr June 17, with skin care, makeup, body care and fragrances. It follows Glossier 's 2023 Sephora debut in North America, and ensuing launches with the retailer in the U.K., Middle East and Mexico.
Glossier Is Landing in France, With Help From Sephora

1 week ago | yahoo.com | James Manso

Glossier and Sephora are taking their partnership to a new market. The beauty brand is entering Sephora France on June 13 in the retailer’s app, and is debuting in-store and on Sephora.fr June 17, with skin care, makeup, body care and fragrances. It follows Glossier’s 2023 Sephora debut in North America, and ensuing launches with the retailer in the U.K., Middle East and Mexico.
True Beauty Ventures Invests in Jupiter

1 week ago | wwd.com | James Manso

True Beauty Ventures has added another business to its portfolio. The fund has taken a minority stake in Jupiter, the scalp care brand founded by Robbie Salter and Ross Goodhart. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, though Melitas Ventures also participated in the round, as did existing investors Willow Growth Partners, Springdale and SWAT Equity Partners.
True Beauty Ventures Invests in Jupiter

1 week ago | flipboard.com | James Manso

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What Hosts With the Most Serve in Summer

2 weeks ago | wwd.com | James Manso |Jennifer Weil

Ask any of beauty's heavyweightswhat they prepare for guests when they host and you'll find that they are arbiters of taste in more ways than one. Take Aerin Lauder, who, as she puts it, opts for dishes "that are easy and light. I love to incorporate local produce, and other items that are simple and delicious." Indeed, "easy" is in the name of the lobster paella created by Ina Garten and first published by the Food Network that Lauder favors.
Meet OOOF, the Business Inspired by Never Working

2 weeks ago | wwd.com | James Manso

It might seem paradoxical that the notion of being out of office forever sparked an entrepreneurial endeavor. But for Celine Kaplan and Elisabeth Holder, OOOF is a brand built on a state of mind rather than an actual working arrangement (or lack thereof). "When COVID happened, we were all out of the office, which I always love," says Kaplan, a publicist who splits her time between Portugal, France and New York.
Parsons Benefit Honors Willy Chavarria, Artemis Patrick, Madelyn Wils

2 weeks ago | wwd.com | James Manso

The Parsons Benefit might be meant to annually celebrate the next crop of creative talent - and, in part, fund their financial aid - but the event also looked to another cohort of established titans of industry Tuesday for their own honorings. Among them was fashion designer Willy Chavarria, Sephora North America chief executive Artemis Patrick and Madelyn Wils of the Fifth Avenue Association.
Fresh Gets Back to Basics for Pop-up, Campaign

2 weeks ago | wwd.com | James Manso

Fresh is cleaning up. The skin care brand, acquired by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton in 2000, is reigniting its marketing machine with a new campaign called "Beyond Clean." That includes an in-person pop-up in the brand's birthplace, New York, a robust influencer marketing strategy and paid media across connected TV and various social platforms. A spokesperson for the brand said it was the largest paid media campaign in the brand's history.