Former fashion industry exec Gregg Renfrew's line of beautifully packaged, responsibly manufactured, reasonably priced skin and body care could turn into a serious competitor to the Avons and Mary Kays of the world.
Anna Wintour’s predilection for chicken pot pies aside, fashion and food have had a notoriously rocky relationship. But we’ve been noticing that the two have been edging closer together. With that in mind, we’ve come up with fashion and food gift pairings--because you've got to feed more than your soul sometimes, right? Click through for everything from the spiciest hot sauce to countless cookies and their natural food and beauty pairings.
This morning, at the ungodly hour of 7:30, the 8th Annual “WWD Beauty Biz Awards" took place at the Four Seasons Restaurant in NYC. Being consummate beauty professionals, everyone in attendance looked refreshed and chic, with lots of Chanel bags and perfectly applied lipstick. Gina Sanders, the president and CEO of Fairchild Fashion Group, started off the presentation by dishing about changes coming to WWD and Style.com (now owned by Fairchild, of course). WWD is getting an overall architecture redesign in 2011, and an eight page section called “WWD Style” will be introduced; it will provide deeper “business insight, analysis, and fun.” The men’s coverage will be increased, with new beefier quarterly sections and more weekly coverage. The Beauty Biz insert will also be overhauled. And finally, an iPad application is coming. Gina was more vague about Style.com-- “Like ladies having work done, we don’t want to reveal too much," she said--but big changes are clearly afoot. She mentioned the potential to reach millions of fanatic fashion and beauty consumers through the site. We will be watching closely. Now onto the awards.
Arguably the most well-known door-to-door beauty brand, Avon has teamed up with body-con label Hervé Leger to launch two new perfumes this fall: Hervé Léger Femme and Hervé Léger Homme. While Hervé, owned by the BCBG Max Azria Group, is a fairly upscale brand--at least in terms of price--the partnership makes sense.
I don't wear tons of jewelry but I do love big rings. I also happen to lose them quite easily, especially the more expensive ones. Over the past few y
Is Avon getting to be kind of... cool? A couple summers ago, they got Derek Jeter to pose glossy headshot style. Then they got Hills idol Lauren Conr