After 28 Years At Estėe Lauder, Alexis Szabo Starts Prestige Butt Care Brand Coco Fesse

After 28 years at The Estée Lauder Cos. Inc., where twerking and “asstitude” were hardly common topics, Alexis Szabo felt the lure of entrepreneurship and decided to chart his own path, first as a consultant and...

New Brand Duette Takes A Holistic Approach To Sun Protection

After being diagnosed with melanoma in 2010, Jennifer Leebow, a nurse practitioner and founder of SkinTheory Studios, dove into sun protection research to find holistic options. “I was concerned about my increased risk...

11 Years In The Making, Luxury Skincare Brand Abé & Mason Is Rooted In Japanese Rituals And Ingredients

In 2010, Shino Abé was working as an auditor at a Los Angeles accounting firm when her eczema, a condition she’d struggled with as a child, flared up. She tried treating it with over-the-counter solutions and products from...

After Gender-Affirming Surgeries, Entrepreneur Jadis Montijo Partners With His Plastic Surgeon On Inclusive Scar Care Brand Motivo

“I had zero idea I’d end up in the beauty industry,” says Jadis Montijo, founder of cannabis consultancy Jadis and former chief strategy officer of cannabis startup The Kind Pen. Life has an uncanny way, though, of...

Got Multi-Toned Lips? New Luxury Makeup Brand Vedi Beauty’s Got You With Richly Saturated Lipsticks

Growing up health-conscious in San Francisco and dealing with health issues, Nikita Magan, founder of Vedi Beauty, who had a stroke as an infant and has cerebral palsy, became exceedingly deliberate with the beauty products...

Japanese-Inspired Slow Beauty And Wellness Brand Shikohin Enters Neiman Marcus

Throughout his over 25 years building cross-border companies such as protective packaging company EXA-AIR and incubator E-studio, serial entrepreneur Takeshi Nobuhara says what’s propelled him is “bringing delightful moments into people’s everyday lives.” Launched...

French Fragrance Brand Maison Matine Expands US Presence, Eyes $10M In 2024 Retail Sales

While colleagues at Paris design agency Centdegré, Marie Kellou and Arthur Ponroy noticed a trend. Nearly all of the high-end fragrance brands they worked with used seduction, power or success as themes of their marketing...