8 h. ago Gucci owner Kering sells beauty business to L'Oreal in £3.5billion deal

Gucci owner Kering has sold its beauty arm to L'Oreal for £3.5billion as its new boss battles to revive its fortunes.

Economics

10 h. ago Gucci owner Kering to sell beauty unit to L’Oreal in £3.5bn deal

Luxury fragrance brand House of Creed will become part of the L’Oreal Luxe division under the deal.

Economics

1 week ago Don't punish the beauty sector, it's one of the few growth industries we've got.

Every pound spent on beauty generates another pound for neighbouring retailers

Politics

1 week ago Victoria Beckham review – meticulously constructed but extremely boring

This documentary was a golden opportunity to show VB at her drily entertaining best. Instead, we get three hours of platitudes. What a maddening waste of her personalityAn intimate portrait of Victoria Beckham is what we were promised by the lavish publicity surrounding the release of the three-part documentary – entitled Victoria Beckham – about the female half of the enduring power couple, and an intimate portrait of the singer turned mogul is what was not delivered. It is about as intimate as a Pret sandwich, and if anyone thought for a moment it was going to be otherwise, well, let me introduce you to With Love, Meghan, whose searing insights into life as a duchess in Montecito are going to blow your mind.Victoria Beckham the documentary is as immaculately groomed, polished and controlled as Victoria Beckham the person. It is a puff piece for her, for husband David, her beauty line and, above all, her fashion business. It charts her evolution from stagestruck child and teenager ...

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2 w. ago Bobbi Brown: ‘If I could bring something extinct back to life? Blockbuster Video’

The makeup artist and entrepreneur on watching her mum put her face on, her crush on Jennifer Aniston and her love of caviarBorn in Chicago, Bobbi Brown, 68, studied theatrical makeup and photography at Emerson College, Boston. In 1980, she moved to New York to work as a makeup artist. She launched Bobbi Brown Essentials in 1991, sold it to Estée Lauder four years later, and built it into a global brand. Having left the business in 2016, she launched a new one, Jones Road Beauty, in 2020. This year, she was named one of Time magazine’s most influential people. She has published nine makeup tutorial books and a memoir, Still Bobbi. She is married with three sons and lives in New Jersey.What is your earliest memory? Watching my mother put on makeup. I was in awe of her beauty and glamour. She was only 21 when I was born and quite stunning. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago Beauty Tech Group valued at up to £320million in rare London IPO

Kim Kardashian and Serena Williams are said to be users of the company’s gadgets

Economics

last month The double tragedy sparked by a bungled police raid: Grieving family of childhood sweethearts who died after harrowing chain of events say officers are 'guilty as sin'

Craig, who worked for his father-in-law's locksmith company, and Cherry, who owned her own thriving beauty business, 'had everything to live for', family members say.

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