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The PrinT Paradox
Channel-Surfing wiTh The
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aleSSio roSSi, Global Chief Digital Officer, Shiseido
The CliCk Clique BeauTy’S moST
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The Business of Beauty
an iSSue Of
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The CliCk
Clique
emily weiSS, founder and CeO, into the Gloss and Glossier
BeauTy’S moST
Plugged-in exeCS
The PrinT Paradox
Channel-Surfing wiTh The home ShoPPing neTworkS
iConS in The making
The Business of Beauty
an iSSue Of
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The Business of Beauty
an iSSue Of
The CliCk
Clique
Claudia Soare and anaSTaSia Soare, President and founder, anastasia Beverly Hills
BeauTy’S moST
Plugged-in exeCS
The PrinT Paradox
Channel-Surfing wiTh The home ShoPPing neTworkS
iConS in The making
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guive BalooCh, Global Vice President, L’Oréal Technology incubator
The CliCk Clique BeauTy’S moST
Plugged-in exeCS
The PrinT Paradox
Channel-Surfing wiTh The
home ShoPPing neTworkS
iConS in The making
The Business of Beauty
an iSSue Of
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Beauty Bulletin IN THIS ISSUE
"The way we consume
media is noT abouT one
piece of The puzzle or
The oTher, buT how
They all fiT TogeTher.” Jane Hertzmark Hudis,
the estée Lauder cos.
8 Pete UnPlUggedPete born assesses what makes a leader today.
10 ShaPe ShifterScurly hair is having a moment thanks to a wide range of launches targeting textured hair.
12 the aPaC exPreSS Revlon’s ceo Fabian Garcia reveals his growth plans for asia in an uncertain political climate.
14 WeSt CoaSt WatChthe latest beauty happenings from the industry’s hotbed of innovation.
16 the neW iConSbeauty’s next-gen hero products.
34 fragranCe in foCUSan in-depth look at the fragrance category and what’s driving growth.
Departments
19 BeaUty’S digital PoWer PoSSeWWD Beauty Inc’s list of the most forward- thinking tech visionaries reveal where they think the industry’s next big innovation lies.
24 WatCh thiS WayFrom the small screen to the smallest: How home shopping channels are reinventing themselves to appeal to social media-minded, mobile Millennials.
28 PiCking UP the PieCeSas digital dominates the omniplatform information age, media companies are grappling with how to wring profits out of a platform they don’t own.
Features
WWD IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF FAIRCHILD PUBLISHING, LLC. COPYRIGHT ©2016 FAIRCHILD PUBLISHING, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. VOLUME 211, NO. 38. Friday, February 17, 2017. WWD (ISSN 0149-5380) is published weekly, except for the fifth week in August, the second week in September, and the third and fourth weeks in December, with one additional issue in February, April, June, August, October and December, by Fairchild Media LLC, which is a division of Penske Business Media LLC. PRINCIPAL OFFICE: 475 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10017. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY, and at additional mailing offices. Canada Post: return undeliverable Canadian addresses to P.O. Box 503, RPO West Beaver Cre, Rich - Hill, ON L4B 4R6. POSTMAS-TER: SEND ADDRESS CHANGES TO WWD, P.O. Box 6356, Harlan, IA, 51593. FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS, ADDRESS CHANGES, ADJUSTMENTS, OR BACK ISSUE INQUIRIES: Please write to WWD, P.O. Box 6356, Harlan, IA, 51593, call 866-401-7801, or e-mail customer service at wwdPrint@cdsfulfillment.com. Please include both new and old addresses as printed on most recent label. For New York Hand Delivery Service address changes or inquiries, please contact Mitchell’s NY at 1-800-662-2275, option 7. Subscribers: If the Post Office alerts us that your magazine is undeliverable, we have no further obligation unless we receive a corrected address within one year. If during your subscription term or up to one year after the magazine becomes undeliverable, you are ever dissatisfied with your subscription, let us know. You will receive a full refund on all unmailed issues. First copy of new subscription will be mailed within four weeks after receipt of order. We reserve the right to change the number of issues contained in a subscription term and/or the way the product is delivered. Address all editorial, business, and production correspondence to WWD, 475 Fifth Ave, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10017. For permissions and editorial requests, e-mail licensing@pmc.com. Visit us online at www.wwd.com or to subscribe to other Fairchild Publishing LLC magazines on the World Wide Web, visit www.wwd.com/subscriptions. WWD IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RETURN OR LOSS OF, OR FOR DAMAGE OR ANY OTHER INJURY TO, UNSOLICITED MANUSCRIPTS, UNSOLICITED ART WORK (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DRAWINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND TRANSPARENCIES), OR ANY OTHER UNSOLICITED MATERIALS. THOSE SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, ART WORK, OR OTHER MATERIALS FOR CONSIDER-ATION SHOULD NOT SEND ORIGINALS, UNLESS SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED TO DO SO BY WWD IN WRITING. MANUSCRIPTS , PHOTOGRAPHS, AND OTHER MATERIALS SUBMITTED MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A SELF-ADDRESSED STAMPED ENVELOPE.
On the Cover: alessio Rossi of Shiseido; claudia and anastasia Soare of anastasia beverly Hills; emily Weiss of Glossier, and Guive balooch of L’Oréal.
Making sense of the ever-more
fragmented publishing industry.
The must-haves that rack up millions.
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Beauty BulletineDitOR'S letteR
In these data-driven times, I decided to take a look at some recent figures
that demonstrate the ongoing and dramatic transformation the beauty indus-
try—and, in fact, the world overall—is experiencing.
Data point one is the number 45. That’s how many days—from ideation to
launch—the makeup brand Winky Lux has reduced the product cycle to.
Data point two is $404.5 million, which is the amount of advertising revenue
that Snap Inc., parent company of Snapchat, recorded in 2016, according to the
prospectus it filed in early February in advance of its initial public offering on the New
York Stock Exchange. That figure represented a seven-fold increase from the company’s
2015 revenues of $58.6 million—in one year.
If those numbers make your eyes pop, consider this: They represent the new normal.
“What we think is never going to stop is the acceleration of the adoption of technology
and what we see today is the slowest pace of change ever,” said Alessio Rossi, Shiseido’s
global chief digital officer, at the WWD Digital Beauty Forum earlier this month. He
noted that the pace of external change exceeds the internal capacity of most organiza-
tions to absorb and adapt it, which will present a huge challenge for many companies.
At Shiseido, Rossi has created the Shiseido+ Digital Academy for employees to teach
them how to do just that. He is one of four cover subjects this month, each innovating
how the beauty industry harnesses the power of technology to drive business. There’s
Emily Weiss, the young entrepreneur who has pioneered the combination of content,
commerce and products with her two companies, Into the Gloss and Glossier; Guive
Balooch, the global vice president of L’Oréal’s technology incubator whose launches like
L’Oréal Paris’ Makeup Genuis have resonated far beyond his company, and Anastasia
and Claudia Soare, the mother/daughter founder and president, respectively, of Anasta-
sia Beverly Hills, the most successful social media-fueled makeup brand of the moment.
They are part of a larger group we’ve dubbed Beauty’s Digital Power Posse, who are lead-
ing the way from content to commerce, software to hard numbers, apps to ops. For the
full list, turn to page 19.
Elsewhere in this issue, we examine the changes digital has wrought in the home
shopping business and in the media industry, where the biggest names in the business
are grappling with what a viable business model looks like in the new information eco-
system. As Jane Hertzmark Hudis of the Estée Lauder. Cos., told me in “Picking Up the
Pieces” on page 28, “We are in a state of change and dramatic transformation across the
board in every business.” Here at WWD Beauty Inc, we’re no exception, which is why we
will continue our mission of making sure that our readers are at the forefront of what’s
happening next in the beauty industry.
Editor
Jenny B. Fine @jennybefine
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scouting for prospects
social media have delivered a one-two knockout
punch to the old department store order. But new
skills are also demanded in a time when specialty
chains, like Sephora and Ulta Beauty, are winning
the Millennial, not only the customer of the future
but of today. Then there’s the revolution fomented
by Indie brands that is remaking the topography of
the industry.
Sydney Finkelstein, Steven Roth Professor of
Management and faculty director of the Tuck Execu-
tive Program at the Tuck School of Business at Dart-
mouth College, suggests in such a period of change
and turmoil, the industry should look outside itself
for new blood.
“Maybe you need to look to a different industry,
which is used to this type of wide-open competi-
tion, constant change, the necessity of adapting and
adjusting in real time, ” he says, suggesting someone
from Silicon Valley. “Potentially you would get a real
change agent.” His other idea is to snatch someone
who is waiting for a shot at the top job at Sephora
or Ulta and recruit them to run a manufacturing
company. “They would have been someone who
had a seat at the table in the development of one
of the strongest—if not strongest—new players in
cosmetics,” he says.
Finkelstein adds that one criteria stands out. In
a world where no board of directors or search com-
mittee can predict the future, there is no way of
knowing what kinds of issues will have to be dealt
with and the skills and temperament required,
beyond those now evident. An important strength
“is the ability to face up to the reality of a situation
in real time and adapt and adjust. I call those things
intellectual honesty, which is recognizing the way
the world really is—at the same time having the
courage and maybe the DNA to make changes in
almost real time.”
Over the years, when aspiring young executives
mentioned who they would like to work with, one
name often came up—Leonard A. Lauder, chairman
emeritus of Estée Lauder Cos. Inc. Lauder says he
has noticed a change in attitude on the part of job
seekers. “The people who rose to leadership in the
Seventies, Eighties and Nineties, up until today,
were, as we call them, ‘lifers,’ people who would
spend their life at one company and build their
skills doing a diversity of tasks within that com-
pany,” he says. “By the time they arrived at the top,
they were well-grounded in almost every facet of the
business. Today’s young executives, who are equally
talented and equally bright, consider the word ‘lifer’
being a life sentence, not a lifetime opportunity. I’ve
never been so amazed at the speed at which people
will resign and move on to the next job, and then
move on again and yet again. So the larger question
is—are they better for it or worse?
“For myself, I love the fact that I have done a deep
dive into everything with one company and feel that
my experience in the cosmetics industry has been
invaluable.” ■
"you have to think like a retailer...
because your universe is shrinking."
Les Berglass, Berglass + Associates
the beauty business
is headed for a managerial
sea change as the Boomers,
who have led for a genera-
tion, start to retire or step
down from the power posts
that capped their careers—
so they can get on with their lives. The trend has
already started with industry icons such as Lynne
Greene, Karen Fondu and Camille McDonald.
It raises questions, such as where the next breed
of c-suite occupants will come from and what
skill sets will be needed to navigate the choppy,
uncharted waters of the future. “Don’t hire a leader
unless they are an Amazon Prime customer,” Les
Berglass, chief executive officer and founder of Ber-
glass + Associates, jokes, making a point that the
next generation of corporate chiefs are going to have
to be what he calls “modern thinkers.”
In the heyday of department stores, business was
constantly expanding. But now the reverse is true.
“Now you have the digital environment responsible
for 20 percent of the takeaway.” He adds, “The inter-
net is there and you have to think like a retailer,
not like a wholesaler (i.e. a beauty manufacturer),
because your universe is shrinking.”
Berglass advises manufacturers to look for tal-
ent with experience and skills gained at vertical
retailers rather than department stores. As the
business shrinks, manufacturers will be opening
stores for their own brands. “You need leaders who
understand specialty retailing,” he says, pointing to
Edgar Huber, now of Coty, and Mindy Grossman of
the Home Shopping Network. Huber, a L’Oréal vet-
eran, ran Kiehl’s for a spell, then switched to Juicy
Couture and Lands’ End, a vertical retailer, before
coming to Coty. Grossman had been in apparel, then
Nike, before transforming HSN.
“What vertical retailers do differently from
department stores—because they are mostly apparel
retailers—is that they demand newness at every
level that wholesalers are not capable of doing,” Ber-
glass says. “The demand for innovation in specialty
retail is extraordinary because apparel depends
upon newness for excitement. The cosmetics indus-
try depends on advertising and promotion.”
On the most basic level, job candidates need
to have a knack for team building because that
is how battles are won now. “They may have bril-
liant merchandising ideas, they may have brilliant
marketing ideas, but can they hire, manage and
motivate a team as the company builds,” says René
Plessner, president of René Plessner Associates. He
cites Rodan + Field’s success at building itself into
a direct-selling company. “Vision has not gone out
of style.”
Plessner acknowledges that future leaders are
going to have to be fluent in digital speak, or at
least hire people who are knowledgeable. But the
depth of change is much deeper. E-commerce and
As a new generation of leadership comes to the fore, WWD’s executive editor of beauty, Pete Born, assesses
the skills needed to guide the industry into tomorrow.
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2. Virtue Labs Correct The Polish Unfrizz Cream, $40 While this cream is meant to tackle frizz, keratin infused in the formula also helps reverse damage.
3. OGX Quenching+ Coconut Curls Frizz-defying Moisture Mousse, $7.99 coconut oil, honey and citrus oil soften the hair and tame frizz.
4. L’Oréal ParisEverSleek Frizz Finish Serum, $9.99 a blend of argan and flower oils protects against humidity.
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2. IGK Sold Out CurlPriming Basecoat, $27 this employs sweet almond oil and sea kelp to nourish the hair.
3. R+Co Twister CurlPrimer, $25 aloe leaf extract, pequi fruit oil and shea butter retain moisture and create a light base that helps hold curls.
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The APAC exPressChief executive officer Fabian Garcia reveals how he plans to accelerate Revlon’s business in Asia. by ALLISON COLLINS
MASTER CLASS
Fabian Garcia has decades of beauty
experience in the Asian market—an
expertise he’s planning to leverage as
chief executive officer of Revlon Inc. Cur-
rently, about 12 percent of the company’s
sales are in the Asia-Pacific region, with most of
that revenue coming from Australia. The expansion
plan comes as Garcia works to merge the culture of
newly acquired Elizabeth Arden with that of Rev-
lon. To pick up steam in Asia, Garcia is planning
on translating the models of a few successes—like
John Varvatos in Korea and Revlon in Japan—into
different markets, an undertaking he’s embarking
on in turbulent political times.
What is your personal style for growing business?
My style is to listen and learn. To begin, I connect
directly with the people who are closer to consum-
ers and customers. The so-called frontliners tend to
have a more thorough and real-time understanding
of consumer insights, trends and the strength and
vitality of our brands. I then expand my audience to
key members of the executive team, two levels down
and our board members. Once I have listened to
key stakeholders, I work with my team to outline a
vision and set of strategic goals to guide our growth.
What are the differences between the corpo-rate cultures of arden and revlon, and how will you fuse them?
I have described the Arden culture as very col-
laborative and the Revlon culture as very competi-
tive. Both are critical traits that we would like to
preserve and build upon. Our objective is to create
a new culture that harnesses teamwork and a pas-
sion for innovation, creativity and a contemporary
celebration of the heritage of our iconic brands.
are different strategies required for build-ing brands in asia compared with the rest of the world?
Photograph by SaSha MaSlov
Fabian Garcia in Revlon’s downtown offices.
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Asia is comprised of very different markets,
with consumers who are very demanding in every
country, and surrounded by competitors, both
global and local, who deliver their best innovation
and execution to win these consumers’ hearts and
minds, day after day.
how do the company’s brands play differ-ently in different countries?
There is a different commercial approach in dif-
ferent markets. Some of it is legacy and some of it
is size of opportunity. Arden today works with a dis-
tributor for Southeast Asia, Luxe Asia. [Revlon] has
our own network of distributors in Southeast Asia.
In the future we will have a more unified approach.
We have a terrific business in Japan with Revlon
that is growing double-digits. Our management
there is very strategic—they are building brand
franchises. They’re building Super Lustrous, they’re
building ColorStay, they’re dedicating resources to
build the franchises that made us famous in other
places. In some countries, 80, 90 percent of the
resources are on the new products only, as opposed
to putting more money into those core franchises,
and that is now a model we want to replicate. The
idea is with that model in mind, let’s go to Korea,
to Taiwan, and see if we can build equal success.
On the Arden side, I’ll give you the example of
John Varvatos. The brand does not have a store in
South Korea, but a very ingenious distributor went
online exclusively to create the brand, mirroring
its image here. John Varvatos is the No. 3 brand
in the male segment in Korea, and it has been No.
1 a couple of times, and it’s all done online. So, a
simple question is why can we not do that in other
markets in Asia? Forty percent of consumers buy
things online in Asia.
With ongoing talk of the chinese slowdown, how do you feel about business there?
I smile at that because a slowdown from the 15
percent of 10 years ago to the 9 percent of a couple
years ago was tragic, end of the world. Now we’re
looking at 6.5 percent—oh my gosh, where are we
heading? I think China represents a wonderful
opportunity. For a company like ours, which has
a very small business in Asia in general, it’s an
untapped growth opportunity, not withstanding
the current GDP state of affairs.
how have things changed since revlon retreated from china in 2014?
The biggest change is the opportunity repre-
sented by online purchases. We withdrew from
China because we couldn’t make money with the
counter-based model we went in with. Today, the
model to make money is a combination of brick-
and-mortar and online. And playing the online
game with fluency, because playing in Taobao is not
as simple as selling on Amazon. Seventy percent of
our current business in China is online. What we
need to do now is build on that and design a busi-
ness model that combines brick and mortar pres-
ence with online sales.
We experimented with Revlon online at the end
of last quarter. The idea was ‘let’s get a calibration
of the brand equity in a world where we have low
awareness and where there’s so much competition
international and local.’ Does the Revlon brand
resonate online without any big investment in mar-
keting to raise that awareness? We got very good
feedback….I think we need to present the brand at
a higher level of premium-ness than what we pre-
sented this time.
What is arden’s distribution in china?We have been distributed in department stores,
not all of which are what I would call A-type stores,
and that distribution is being optimized. Now we’re
in 56 of those doors, and opening more and more of
the doors we want. We want to show other depart-
ment stores in China that when you give us the
right space and allow us to execute the premium
image of Elizabeth Arden, we can create the kind
of velocity and the kind of equity that this brand
deserves.
is President Trump’s stance on trade causing difficulties for doing business in asia?
There is a lot of noise. Now are we going from
noise to action, and what are those actions going to
be? From our vantage point, being small is beautiful
because we’re not going to be on the radar screen of
the top industries they’re going to go after. We have
opportunities in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong
and, of course, the big ticket item here is China—
but hopefully the situation isn’t going to be as dire
as some may think. ■
" The arden culTure is very collabora-
Tive and revlon is compeTiTive. both are critical traits."
Fabian Garcia, Revlon
ColorStay has been a strong
franchise in Japan.
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destination with stores including Tom Dixon’s U.S. flagship, cool girl sunglass
brand Linda Farrow and an outpost of New York restaurant The Cannibal. The
120,000-square-foot space features 20 stores where rents run $6 to $10 per
square foot monthly; the square footage will increase to 200,000 when a new
building opens in 2019. “Everything is unique, one-of-a-kind and specific to this
place rather than the stuff you find everywhere,” says Joseph Miller of Runyon
Group, which developed the site. That extends to beauty and wellness, which
currently includes Aesop, Tenoverten, SoulCycle and Juice Served Here. “There
are great spas and beauty places in L.A., but there is nowhere that has put them
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The yogi of San Francisco’s skin-care world, Holey,
trained in chemistry and cosmetics formulations, takes a holistic approach
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don’t leave your tools in a toolbox.
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neiman marcus, net-a-porter, harrods
retinol, but better.
retinol reform, $95
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the best of spa skin care with no nasties.
goat milk Soufflé moisturizer, $65
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Sherrill’s Beauty Park Medical Spa has more advanced equipment
than a biotech lab. She’ll try just about anything to unleash a youthful glow.
Hollywood’s PYTs flock to Darden, perhaps
the coolest aesthetician in town. A former dancer,
she honed her skills at Argyle Salon and Spa and Kinara Skin Care
Clinic before setting out on her own.
Longtime Ole Henriksen facialist Caglia is the skin-care shaman for
busy lives. At her Bel-Air outpost, she aims for
dewy fresh skin without redness or marks in
an hour flat.
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Beauty Bulletin MODERN ICONS
the new ageDigitally savvy brands and first-to-market formats have dethroned long-standing hero products as beauty’s newest cult classics. By LayLa ILChI
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2. Amorepacific Color Control Cushion Compact Amorepacific sold more than 33 million cushions in 2016.
3. SheaMoisture Coconut & Hibiscus Curl Enhancing Smoothie The top seller for multicultural hair, reported IRI.
4. dior Addict Lip Glow This luxe lip moisturizer sold one every minute in 2016.
5. Pat McGrath Labs Lust 004 in Vermillion Venom Makeup artist McGrath amassed an Instagram following of 1.1 million in under a year.
6. Linda Rodin Olio Lusso Luxury Face Oil Over 91 million drops have been absorbed since its launch in 2007.
7. It Cosmetics Your Skin But Better CC+ SPF 50+ This sold 20,000 units in 15 minutes on its QVC debut.
8. Tatcha Polished Rice Enzyme Powder The powder that kicked off a cleansing craze.
9. Atelier Cologne Orange Sanguine Cologne Absolue Over one million bottles have sold since launch.
10. Glamglow Supermud Clearing Treatment Broke Sephora’s record as the top-selling “Hot Now” product.
11. Kylie Cosmetics Matte Lip Kit in Koko K Sold out within 15 minutes of its launch.
12. Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara One unit is sold every 19 seconds.
13. Oribe dry Texturizing Spray Every 69 seconds, a bottle is sold.
14. Artís Elite Mirror Oval This brush has sold out five times since its launch.
15. Nest Fragrances Bamboo Classic Candle A number-one seller since 2008.
16. Urban decay Naked Eyeshadow Palette One palette sells every six seconds, totaling over $1 billion in sales.
17. Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder This lit up the illumination category.
18. Paco Rabanne Invictus Eau de Toilette This sales winner went through 5,500 iterations.
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power posse From content to commerce, soFtware
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realistic. We are about to introduce a complete overhaul to our engine that will make it literally impossible to distinguish augmented reality from reality, in real-time video.
aLIcIa yoonFounder and Ceo, PeaCh & LiLy
@aliciayoon212, @peachandlily
“Because we’re introducing new skin-care concepts and products that rely so much on education, there’s only so much information that can be digested before it might feel overwhelming or confusing. We try to focus on the right stream and the right sequence of information so concepts can build on each other.”
¬ I envision a fine-tuning of augmented reality, where images are manipulated to try on new makeup looks and even see what skin looks like when it’s more even-toned or firmed up. That means all of these “effects” can be applied to images posted on social media platforms, which means this can impact the way brands manufacture products as they contemplate questions like “does it not only wear well in person, but will it look great when it ‘wears’ in virtual reality?” And significantly, can it provide brands, retailers and makeup artists with so much information on what looks do well, which looks are popular, so we can continue to hone product development based on virtual, augmented reality feedback.
aLessIo rossI ChieF digitaL oFFiCer, ShiSeido grouP
“We remove barriers from ideas to execution, have a risk-tolerant approach (although data-driven) and are including each professional community in this transformation. It’s change management on steroids.”
¬ Artificial intelligence and computer vision will become as ubiquitous and adopted as smartphones did less than 10 years ago. The ability to interact in a more natural way will deepen our reliance on technology and create precise, tailored and emotionally connected experiences. At the same time, “super-touchpoints” will resolve the extreme fragmentation of services that we experience today while making the best of a unified customer data model. In a way, this is already in place in China with WeChat being the platform that connects to everything.
aLIce H. cHanGCeo, PerFeCt CorP.
“We are building a unique augmented reality-enabled beauty journey that takes users from discovery to interactively trying products to buying (online or in store) to sharing and engaging with friends, peers and even brands and retailers.”
¬ There is still a lot to do to bring augmented reality to its full potential. Beauty augmented reality has to look perfectly natural and
anastasIa soareFounder and Ceo, anaStaSia BeverLy hiLLS
@anastasiabeverlyhills
“We are organic and authentic, engaging with our audience and cultivating the influencer. We listen and deliver, we teach and empower.”
¬ Snapchat, Instagram Stories, any live-streaming. We work across multiple platforms and connect with our customers where they are.
Bree JoHnson CoFounder, Frank Beauty
@frank_bod, @willowandblake
“We base a lot of our digital decisions on gut instinct. Data is very useful but it’s human interpretation of data that makes the difference.”
¬ Machine learning is very interesting, specifically the data and insights it can provide.
canDace craIG BuLIsHakChieF Marketing oFFiCer, tarte
@candacebulishak
“We’re all about taking thoughtful risks. Constantly experimenting allows us to test new approaches.”
¬ Artificial intelligence, specifically bots, will continue to grow, enabling beauty brands to build better customer experiences. It will allow consumers to ask us specific questions about products, shade matching, how-tos, etc., while receiving answers in real-time.
The Technological revoluTion
has ushered in an age of unparalleled
experimentation in beauty, with Jetsons-like
innovations (self-printing nailbots anyone?)
fundamentally changing the industry.
Here, WWD Beauty Inc’s list of the digital
gurus who are leading the way, be
it in product development, personalization,
content creation, omnichannel commerce,
social media, apps, ops and everything in
between. While they represent many different
levels of seniority, and work for firms that are
both emerging and established, all have
the entrepreneurial drive to create the future.
We asked each of them to share their approach
to digital and what upcoming technology
has the most potential to significantly impact
beauty. While augmented reality was the
most popular answer, one thing is for sure:
There’s nothing virtual about the impact these
leaders have had on the industry.
From left to right: Alessio Rossi, Alice Chang, Alicia yoon, Anastasia Soare, bree johnson, jane Park, Candace Craig bulishak, Chetna Khemka, Christine Mielke, Claudia Soare, Conor begley, Emily Weiss, Guive balooch, Heather Park, Huda Kattan
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cHetna kHemkaviCe PreSident, oMniChanneL, eLC onLine, the eStée Lauder CoS.
@ckhemka
“I adhere to the concept of reverse engineering, meaning I typically like to start with the business objective and then identify the right digital enablers (rather than look at the latest technology and try to plug it into our business.”
¬ Technology that enables customization, personalization and experiences will have a tremendous impact. There are several new technologies that exist but are still nascent. For example, artificial intelligence, such as Alexa. Most of us use her for specific tasks such as putting on a song, ordering a car service, etc. As AI gets more advanced, I predict Alexa will make purchase decisions for us. We will tell her that we want a “bright red lipstick” and she will place an order based on all the information she has on our makeup preferences, past purchase history, etc. AI will also play a larger role in e-commerce, where personalized recommendations could be made from simple information provided by
conor BeGLeyCoFounder, triBe dynaMiCS
“At Tribe we do no paid advertising (SEM, social, etc.) but this aligns with our general business philosophies of emphasizing earned media versus paid. Personally, I tend to be a consumer of digital content, not a creator.”
¬ Augmented reality technology, driverless transportation and the commercialization of drones will all impact beauty. None are ready yet, but AR technology (Snapchat filters, etc.) seems to be tailor-fit for the cosmetics industry and driverless trucks/drone delivery could have significant impacts on supply chain management in the future. It makes domestic production, versus Chinese production, a more realistic proposition.
emILy weIssFounder and Ceo, gLoSSier
@emilywweiss
“Everything about Glossier was made for the digital experience, from top to bottom. That’s why we’ve designed our masks with Instagrammable artwork on the lid, so that when you open the package you instantly want to take a photo of the jar.”
their hair and skin and will also have the most personalized products for their needs as a function of that knowledge. IBeacon is shifting the way customers engage with retail by personalizing their experience through proactive communication, while providing the retailer with specific feedback on consumer preferences. This innovation signals the continued growth of personalization and I see the potential for digital beacon technology to expand beyond retail to everything from office space to entertainment as more businesses focus on how better data can optimize experiences.
HeatHer parkexeCutive direCtor, gLoBaL ConSuMer engageMent, originS
@heatherpark
“What I love about working in digital is that despite all the apps, platforms, devices and technology that comes out, the basics elements of human behavior never really change. They are just enhanced and amplified.”
¬ I’m very intrigued to see how virtual reality will affect virtual shopping. Beauty is uniquely positioned to be a great industry for this, provided the quality of the experience is trusted.
the consumer. Payment technology in the retail space will also greatly impact the industry—the concept of checkout will be nonexistent. The store will become more about experiences and services and less about the transaction. We often hear how credit card use increases the likelihood of conversion versus the use of cash. “Transaction-less” payments will further compound this effect when consumers can simply grab and go, while also resulting in a better retail experience.
cHrIstIne mIeLkeFounder and editor in ChieF, teMPtaLia
@temptalia
“As a blogger, my focus remains on the blog and growing its content and reach, so I use my social media channels as extensions of it.”
¬ A brand’s ability to switch to and leverage more agile, shorter product development cycles to better stay on trend and respond to the immediacy of consumer demands is going to alter the way products are announced, released and consumed.
cLauDIa soarePreSident, anaStaSia BeverLy hiLLS
@Norvina
“My approach is to look for what’s new, what’s on brand and what excites me, as it will likely excite our customer in some way.”
¬ The concept of live-streaming could potentially be the next social media platform that impacts retail. Think of it as a “new-wave” QVC.
¬ I’m curious to see the impact virtual and augmented reality will have. I wonder if there’s a scenario in which we can provide even better customer support through an augmented reality channel or a better way to reach people new to Glossier. I’m also thinking about which social media platform is going to surface next. Right now Instagram is very important to me (and to Glossier), but it’s possible that in five years it won’t exist as a platform and will be replaced by something we can’t even begin to think of next.
GuIve BaLoocHgLoBaL viCe PreSident, L’oréaL’S teChnoLogy inCuBator
@guivebalooch
“My approach is rooted in the link between science and industrial design. It’s the intersection between accuracy and design/consumer experience that creates truly innovative beauty tech with the ability to change behavior and enhance performance.”
¬ The maturity of neural networks and AI is going to revolutionize how we customize products and experiences. Neural networks will allow new experiences with services and diagnostics related to individual beauty concerns. The more a consumer interacts with technology, the smarter that technology will become and understand them better. The beauty consumers of the future will have a better understanding of
HuDa kattan Founder, huda Beauty
@Hudabeauty
“There is an urgency to digital—people wanting things instantly, faster, and they see through things that are not authentic. I strive to be genuine in what I do, not take myself too seriously. I’ve always felt there is so much opportunity to empower and connect people through beauty.”
¬ Virtual reality could have a lot of exciting opportunities. The idea of face recognition has not reached its full potential for consumers yet.
Jane park Founder and Ceo, JuLeP
“Whether it is others in the beauty community or my team here, I am motivated by engagement and by women who try things outside their comfort zones. As a technology-forward company, we are constantly experimenting and AB testing new platforms, software and ways to connect directly. We are not afraid to embrace new ideas.”
¬ We will see more and more live-streaming. I host weekly sessions that customers can watch during lunch breaks live and are posted to our accounts later on. The real-time question-and-answer session that watchers can participate and engage in is incredibly energizing.
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“Being an investor in the beauty space, I try to stay current on all digital avenues, focusing on Snapchat, Instagram and YouTube. My involvement with Dollar Shave Club and Memebox have taught me how to successfully build a brand online.”
¬ Virtual/augmented reality technologies that focus on personalization and customization will allow consumers to envision limitless possibilities.
Jen atkInCeLeBrity hairStyLiSt and Creator, ouai hair Care
@jenatkinhair
“I’m a tech nerd first, creative second.”
¬ Virtual reality has amazing potential to help expand product knowledge and styling education, as you get to experience a room as if you’re in it.
Jess HatzIsCoFounder, Frank Body
@jess_hatzis, @frank_bod
“Personally, there is no rhyme or reason to the way I use digital, other than—a lot. For business, we try to be true to our brand values and not be swayed by trends.”
Laura neLsonFounder and PreSident, Seed Beauty
“We don’t view digital as a strategy. It is part of our DNA. Digital defines us. We listen to our customers across all social media platforms so that we can give them what they want when they want it.”
¬ Continued improvements in facial recognition technology will have a significant impact because it allows consumers to experience and try on makeup digitally, making online cosmetics purchases even more convenient.
maLIk aBu-GHazaLeHviCe PreSident, digitaL Marketing and e-CoMMerCe, LanCôMe
@MalikAbuG
“Relentless focus on innovation that is practical, content that is relevant for online and in-store consumption and strong customer support are the priorities that allow us to showcase our products and keep people coming back to Lancôme online.”
¬ We need to adapt and imagine new ways customers will interact with our brands via speech recognition. Customers will browse and order our products online by speaking to Siri or Alexa. They will request customer service, tips and tutorials by speaking into their devices. We have an opportunity to engage with customers in a way that can provide a whole new [sensory] experience of the voice behind our brand.
¬ I’m extremely interested to see how iBeacons and virtual reality can be integrated into the shopping experience moving forward—particularly for content-driven brands.
kat von DFounder, kat von d Beauty
@thekatvond, @katvondbeauty
“I am really focused on my fans. I try to engage as often as I can during my downtime. It’s important that my fans know I am listening and am present, both personally and professionally. In all facets of my life, I’m not afraid to test and try, and move on quickly, even if I fail.”
¬ Live video streams of makeup classes and events is changing the type of access that people have. It’s no longer so exclusive and is making beauty a much larger conversation and bigger community because you don’t actually have to be at these places to be able to experience and learn from them.
of new technologies like instant apps, progressive web apps and chatbots over the next few years. Also, artificial intelligence is going to disrupt pretty much every industry and beauty is no exception. Over the last few years, the amount of data available to retailers and brands about the consumer has grown exponentially. What AI allows us to do is to make the best possible use of all that data—to truly understand, connect with and personalize experiences for our clients. For beauty, which is so intimate and so personal, that capability is really a game-changer.
meHDI meHDIviCe PreSident oF digitaL, nyx ProFeSSionaL MakeuP
@medzx2
“I try to avoid doing anything digital just for the sake of being digital. Beauty is still, at its core, very personal and tactile. If we can show you the color and the texture without the barrier of a screen or a device, that’s my preferred option.”
¬ Despite the fact that I’ve historically been skeptical of social commerce, I’m really excited for shoppable Instagram. That channel has become the primary platform for consumption of beauty content, so making Instagram directly shoppable will be a game-changer for the industry.
marLena steLLCeo and PreSident, MakeuP geek
@Marlena_Stell
“Most ceos do not have a strong personal social media presence.”
¬ Any features that will support live-streaming will have a significant impact on beauty. The days of highly edited videos are in the past. People want to interact and engage with others in the present moment.
mary BetH LauGHtonSenior viCe PreSident, digitaL, SePhora
“My background at Nike and Sephora has made me uniquely consumer-obsessed. I learned to think through every decision with a consumer lens—are we solving a real problem for her? Even if a project has a high projected financial return, I make sure first and foremost that we are thinking through how a consumer will ultimately experience it, and not pursue it if we don’t think it will be amazing for her.”
¬ Mobile apps have completely transformed e-commerce over the last five years. With 90 percent of mobile time spent in apps, they’ve come to dominate because they offer seamless navigation and checkout, push notification capability and access to the camera, which makes native apps a more sophisticated channel that’s ideal for engaging a retailer’s best customers. It will be interesting to see how this evolves with the rise
moJ maHDaraCeo, BeautyCon Media
@mojism
“I am always scanning my social networks and prefer to consume my content through highly curated digital feeds. Seeing things through the lenses of curation shows thoughtfulness and cohesiveness that instant social shares often lack.”
¬ I love seeing companies that have embraced inclusiveness to create advanced products that apply to a much wider variety of skin tones, types and textures.
parHam aaraBIFounder and Ceo, ModiFaCe
@parhamaarabi
“Our approach is: Try. Fail. Learn. Succeed. Launch. Improve. We are hell-bent on experimentation, on trying out new ideas and innovations. That has helped us build the largest beauty tech patent portfolio and an amazing pipeline of new digital beauty technologies for the next decade.”
¬ Intelligent augmented reality, which applies deep learning to make augmented reality more realistic, more personalized and much more impactful. Essentially, by using artificial intelligence to analyze each person’s video, it becomes possible to provide more realistic try-on simulations (by accounting for lighting), better recommendations (by knowing information about their face type, skin color and hair color), and eventually, custom makeup products that are personalized for each user.
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racHeL ten BrInkCMo and CoFounder, SCentBird and deCk oF SCarLet
“From the beginning, we focused on influencers as the number-one growth driver. We follow a two-pronged approach. First, we invest a lot of time on curation—identifying exactly the type of content and influencer-style that clicks with our audience. Then, we give influencers a lot of freedom to create the content so it’s authentic.”
¬ Artificial intelligence has huge potential for beauty. From diagnostic and recommendations to helping drive product development, I foresee a lot of growth in leveraging this technology.
spencer mccLunGexeCutive viCe PreSident, Media and PartnerShiPS, iPSy
“I’ve learned that the best way to stay current on digital trends is to put down my mobile and talk to smart people.”
¬ Augmented reality and virtual reality will provide new impactful ways for brands to engage with customers and beauty creators to engage with their followers. It will also become another reason to skip going to the mall.
stepHanIe HorBaczewskIPreSident and Ceo, StyLehauL
@Stylehaulsteph
“What sets StyleHaul apart from others is the scaled impact and influence our creators voice for a specific product launch or to advance trends for brands we work with.”
¬ A wide array of advancements will soon allow our experience with beauty products to be more personalized than it has ever been before. From 3-D-printing makeup to skin tone analyzers, we’ll start to see beauty brands use technology to respond to consumers’ increasing desire for personal solutions.
syLvIe moreauPreSident, Coty ProFeSSionaL Beauty
@sylviemoreaulepeigneul
“My social media presence blends my personal and professional side—we only have one life. This is reflected in my digital connections and the content I share, from highlights of my working day to the best hair creations from Wella stylists to news from our brands and personal updates and inspiration.”
¬ Virtual reality has limitless possibilities. There’s immense potential to enhance the consumer and salon client experience, enhance consultations and drive professional education….And mobile messaging—the innovation in mainstreaming real time one-to-one digital conversations is transforming consumer behaviors and expectations.
tIna pozzIaSSiStant viCe PreSident, SoCiaL Media and Content Marketing, urBan deCay
@tpozzi
“All marketing is digital. It’s not just about traffic, conversion or sales. It’s about bringing our brand where our consumer is (her phone) and capturing her attention.”
¬ It will be interesting to monitor the consumer adoption of 3-D printing. Personalization has been such a trend in the industry. If the technology evolves to deliver pigment payout, it could be a serious disruptor.
toto HaBaviCe PreSident, digitaL Strategy, BeneFit CoSMetiCS
“We have people on the ground in over 40 countries who are working with local influencers, creating content and making sure our brand DNA is understood. We manage over 150 marketing channels. Benefit is a global brand that believes in being hyperlocal.”
¬ It’s not new, but online retail will be the primary disrupter for beauty in the coming years. Foot traffic to department stores will continue to decline worldwide. The brands that win will have a smart distribution strategy online and be aggressive with their e-tail partners.
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I’m inspired by how they solve problems with clever simplicity and elegance across so many different fields.
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She has done a phenomenal job of developing a strong beauty identity for Glossier and a cult following via digital.
—JAnet GuRWItch
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She’s smart, clever and funny! —hudA KAttAn
S t e P h e n h a w k i n g
He helps us see how reality is stranger than fiction within black holes and he
stretches us to look up at the stars and think big. —SPENCER MCCLuNG
e v e r y F r a M e a Pa i n t i n g
It highlights different techniques used by the great filmmakers. Besides my personal interest in the subject, it helps reorient and
anchor what I’m trying to do in digital—use audio, visual and interactive experiences to tell stories and create connections
with our audience. —MEHDI MEHDI
M a r C a n d r e e S S e n
Inventor of Netscape and cofounder of a16z, he is a master at connecting the dots and shaping the future before it happens.
—ALESSIO ROSSI
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They are both unique, entrepreneurial and really great at content and connecting with their audiences. —MOj MAHDARA
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She’s a babe that’s got her life sorted. —BREE jOHNSON
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80 percent of Internet traffic will come from video
viewing.”
For legacy home shopping companies that means
turning commerce into a conversation, reassessing
the personalities talking to customers and their
show’s settings, bringing in budding beauty brands,
creating on-demand content and leveraging digital
platforms, particularly Facebook, to distribute that
content. The stakes are high: The channels that
succeed in skillfully combining the communicative
power of social media with their enormous exist-
ing sales engines will win; the rest may take their
The kicker: Everyone’s invited. The tour is hap-
pening virtually on HSN and Benefit’s web sites, and
is streaming on their Facebook accounts. Although
the nearly 50-minute visit to Benefit is HSN pro-
gramming, there’s no studio set in sight, and it’s not
shown on television. HSN customers can watch it on
their phones, laptops or tablets whenever they want
and, if they feel like purchasing, they can head to the
web. Welcome to next-generation television technol-
ogy, where live-streaming has become live shopping.
“At HSN, you are selling. You have minute-by-
minute goals you have to hit. Whereas this is much
more about storytelling and allowing for a shop-
pable moment,” says Ford Danielson a day before
the cameras were rolling at the Benefit building on
Jan. 20. “It’s allowing an online consumer to have
an in-person experience.”
Literally and figuratively, home-shopping tele-
vision is escaping the box. While old-school small
screens are sticking around for now, players such
as QVC, HSN and Evine (fka Shop NBC) are adjust-
ing to the reality that younger consumers aren’t as
attached to television screens as older shoppers, but
are willing to pioneer new ways to shop via video.
At a time when traditional retail formats over-
all are struggling, home shopping networks aren’t
immune. Although annual figures from 2015 show
revenues at QVC, HSN and Evine all lifting three
percent to $6.26 billion, $3.69 billion and $693.3
million respectively, the most recent results for the
third quarter of 2016 are less rosy. Revenues for
QVC’s parent company Liberty Interactive Corp.
slid 3 percent to $1.9 billion, HSN’s fell 5 percent
to $823 million and Evine’s decreased 7 percent to
$152 million.
“It’s the Netflix effect,” says Taylor Frankel,
cofounder of Nudestix, which is sold on QVC. “Mil-
lennials want instant content, instant gratification
and content that’s relevant to them.”
The solution seems to be more, not less, video—
albeit video that’s platform-agnostic. Rachel Tipo-
graph, founder and chief executive officer of mobile
video shopping startup MikMak, predicts, “By 2019,
this will be the predominant way of selling because
place in nostalgia tales alongside typewriters and
the telegraph.
In a bid for a broader audience, QVC has made
the biggest splash. On Oct. 31, it launched Beauty
iQ, a multiplatform network for beauty junkies, a
group that skews Millennial, with brands includ-
ing Nudestix, Laura Geller, Peter Thomas Roth,
Becca Cosmetics, Josie Maran, Tarte, It Cosmetics,
Tatcha, Dr. Dennis Gross, Edward Bess and Mally
Beauty. It generates four hours of live programing
nightly airing on a television channel that reaches
40 million homes, and streaming on social media
and web sites. Beauty iQ was informed by insights
from a dedicated beauty channel in the U.K., which
QVC said accounted for almost 10 percent of new
customers from Jan. 1 to June 30 last year. Overall,
beauty accounts for 17 percent, or slightly more than
$1 billion, of QVC’s global sales.
“It feels very different from QVC,” said QVC ceo
Mike George of Beauty iQ during Liberty Interac-
tive’s third-quarter earnings conference call. “It has
a much more contemporary vibe, a little bit more
like beauty bloggers on YouTube. It’s a way to imag-
ine QVC for another generation and to take this very
dynamic growing area of beauty and present it in
a different way.”
Beauty iQ reacts to the media landscape George
referred to as an “over-the-top live and on-demand
environment” by streaming its content live, and,
when it’s not live, making it readily available for
shoppers whenever they choose to view it on what-
ever devices. From Beauty iQ and beyond, QVC has
produced over 500 live-streams across multiple
Facebook Live pages, accruing more than 5.5 mil-
lion Facebook Live views.
Both QVC and HSN are also putting content on
Roku, the TV live-streaming service, and QVC intro-
duced an app on Apple TV in 2015. Amazon’s take
on home shopping, Style Code Live, is accessible on
the e-commerce giant’s Fire TV. HSN yielded 16,000
downloads on Roku in July, the first month on the
platform, according to Alicia Valencia, senior vice
president of beauty at HSN. “The on-demand piece
is really key to Millennials,” she says. “If you are try-
ing to reach a Millennial, it has to be on her terms.”
YouTube, in particular, has had a large impact on
the evolution of beauty programming. Beauty iQ is
tailored to customers familiar with its popular tuto-
rials. “Our entire focus is to spend time to teach you
about the product and how to use it,” says Rachel
Ungaro, vice president of buying for apparel, acces-
sories, beauty and jewelry at QVC. “We will show a
full face on Beauty iQ from start to finish, where we
probably won’t do something like that on the main
channel,” she cites as an example.
Elana Drell-Szyfer, ceo of Laura Geller Beauty,
says Beauty iQ’s approach allows the brand to deep
dive into a topic. A recent show examined “matte,
not flat” makeup. “Instead of going wide in terms
of the product we offer, we go deep on information,”
says Drell-Szyfer.
Taking further cues from YouTube, content that
spotlights several brands together is increasing.
all it the ultimate insider’s tour. ¶ “Welcome
to our home,” trills Annie Ford Danielson, global
beauty authority and guardian of brand DNA at
Benefit Cosmetics, kicking off a tour of the com-
pany’s headquarters in San Francisco. But this is
no ordinary walk-through. It contains a Champagne doughnut
party, explores the history of Benefit, peeks at launches in Ben-
efit’s They’re Real franchise and shows Ford Danielson and her
sister, Maggie (they’re the daughters/nieces of the brand’s found-
ers Jean and Jane), bonding over makeup.
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Ungaro cites a segment called Beauty Bash!, which
she says has scored some of the highest engagement
so far on Beauty iQ. “It makes it a lot more realis-
tic in the long run for how the customer is actually
shopping,” she says.
Style Code Live, a sort of mash-up of “Entertain-
ment Tonight,” QVC and YouTube that began in
March, rarely zeroes in on a single brand. “Gener-
ally, we want to show as broad a selection as pos-
sible. We are not trying to feature specific brands,”
says an Amazon spokesperson. “Amazon is all about
product discovery and selection, so Style Code Live
is an extension of that.”
Aiding that discovery doesn’t require a strong
sales pitch. On Beauty iQ and elsewhere in home
shopping, there is a shift away from strict selling
to a softer, more relatable tone. “I am able to not
only tell my story, talk about the love I have for my
products, but also just have fun with it and connect
with the viewer,” says Frankel.
Back at HSN, Ford Danielson says, “The less you
sell, and the more you hang out, the
better you do.” Valencia indicates
the Millennial customer isn’t a fan
of fluffy product boasts. “She doesn’t
want to hear all the buzzwords. She
wants to know what a product does
and why she needs it,” she says, noting
HSN has been overhauling its beauty
product information online to reflect
those preferences as well.
Part of the tonal change is
related to interactivity. Programs
increasingly incorporate questions
and comments from social media.
Beauty iQ brand representatives and
hosts field incoming inquiries from
Facebook Live. “It’s really about
reaching out, giving the informa-
tion and not selling. It’s a beauty
community,” says Jillian Veran-Rezo,
national artistry advisor for Laura
Geller and Beauty iQ guest for the brand. Ama-
zon’s Style Code Live has a chat host that helps
respond to viewer inquiries as they come in, and
a confetti bag feature that shows bags filling up
and exploding as viewer clicks accumulate. “We
wanted it to be interactive and engaging, and
feel like a discussion in a community with the
hosts, bloggers and celebrities,” says an Amazon
spokesperson.
Of course, the brands being sold also must appeal
to Millennials. Similar to the rest of the beauty
industry, Indie brands are rising on home shopping
platforms. In November of last year, George said,
“With our new Beauty iQ channel, we now have a
platform to more rapidly introduce the hottest new
Indie brands, and we have another 35 brands we’re
assessing for launch on Beauty iQ as early as Q1.”
Overall at QVC, he estimated, 40 new beauty brands
are being added in the first half of 2017. Among
the newcomers to QVC are Unwash, Skyn Iceland,
Kristofer Buckle, DCL Skin Care, Dr. Jart, Derma 9,
Obliphica and René Furterer.
Valencia at HSN highlights smaller brands like
Pür, Brow Gal and Smith & Cult as making inroads
with younger shoppers and underscores HSN often
puts Indie brands online first for customer acquisi-
tion purposes. “It doesn’t have to be one of the big
brands for her to gravitate to it. On the contrary,
she’d rather them not be,” she says.
The relationships consumers have with Indie
beauty brands goes beyond products. They con-
nect to their backstories, expertise and passion.
Television can uniquely present brand creators to
audiences, and programs take advantage of that.
Viewers “love to hear from the founders. They love
to hear their voices, what their inspiration is and
about the products,” says Valencia. Ford Danielson
elaborates, “[HSN] is really now pushing for found-
ers or people who have been a part of the brand to
have that intimate connection with the viewer, so it
doesn’t feel like a sales person selling you a product
from a studio.”
Models, too, can’t be insincere selling ploys. On
Style Code Live, models aren’t too perfect. “Our
viewers like to see real people up there who have
skin problems like they do or have hair that makes
it challenging to do the trends that they are learning
from our how-tos,” says an Amazon spokesperson.
It’s difficult to be fully real inside a studio.
There are numerous efforts to exit studios or, at
least, make studios seem less inert. HSN’s jaunt to
Benefit Cosmetics in San Francisco followed pro-
gramming from Too Faced’s Southern California
offices on Dec. 21. HSN is hoping to do far-from-
the-studio broadcasts quarterly or monthly. “Are
we looking to make sales from it? Absolutely, but
it’s really about bringing that behind-the-scenes
look that [shoppers] can’t get from other plat-
forms,” says Valencia.
Sales, though, may get a boost from the unusual
outings. In September of last year, Evine aired the
Perfect Beekend, an hour split between content
from the farm that’s home to the founders of the
natural bath and body products brand Beekman
1802 and content from the set rendered informal
with hosts in their pajamas. Evine doubled its
sales expectations for the show. “The customer
is looking for more than someone at the podium
selling cream,” says Teresa Harris, vice president
of merchandising in Evine’s beauty division.
“They want to know more about the brand.”
These initiatives are well and good, but MikMak’s
Tipograph isn’t convinced they will convert Millen-
nials. She argues the home-shopping television stal-
warts aren’t truly pushing the needle. “It feels very
close to their original concept of programming,” says
Tipograph. Segueing to the origins of MikMak, she
says, “QVC and HSN were born for television, and
they do well via the mode of television. What if I
create supershort, shoppable infomercials designed
for we who grew up with the phone as our primary
entertainment device?”
To that end, MikMak produces 30-second vid-
eos with comedians as hosts concentrating on
products that are under $100, and
then harnesses data to get the vid-
eos to the people for which they are
intended. More than 200 brand part-
ners, including L’Oréal, GE and Pola-
roid, have worked with it. “Let’s say
we are selling foundation that targets
women who have acne. I am not going
to show that to everybody. I’m going
to show that to the audience that
most likely has those attributes,” she
says. “It’s all about relevance. No one
wants to be served a product that’s
not relevant to them.”
Indeed, relevance is that transient
quality home shopping concepts are
vying for. Early results from the
changes they’ve made may be posi-
tive, but they don’t yet confirm rel-
evance has been achieved.
Drell-Szyfer SayS the audience at Beauty iQ
is, not surprisingly, “fractionally smaller” than QVC’s
audience, but that, “In a very short period of time,
it’s gained a lot of attention and interaction.” Ungaro
is betting programming like what’s being done at
Beauty iQ can win over her 12-year-old daughter and
perhaps millions of her peers. “She watches shows
when she wants to watch them. We stream all of our
live broadcasts on dot-com, so she can do that,” says
Ungaro. “We can be there for her when she wants
us to be live, and we can be there for her when she
wants us otherwise.”
Donna Tarantino, former director of beauty and
wellness for ShopNBC, and president and founder
of marketing firm Planet Pink, is comparatively
optimistic. “If anybody can get in touch with the
younger generation, it’s QVC or HSN. They are at
the forefront of trying to do that. They are using
social media, and learning the education and tuto-
rial piece from influencers and bloggers, and trying
to tap into it.” ■
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the platform (print) to being content creators for
digital platforms profitable enough? Are magazines
the base of the pyramid or the icing on the cake?
Such are the questions media executives are grap-
pling with every day.
“Print is our heritage and it would be crazy to
run away from the heritage,” says Jim Norton, who
was named chief business officer and president of
revenue of Condé Nast in October, joining the com-
pany from AOL where he led global media sales.
“Is it the most effective delivery mechanism for
the great content we produce? It is certainly not as
strong as it was 10 years ago, five years ago or even
last year. The distribution of wood-based media is
a waning platform.”
Similar to nearly every other industry, media
brands have expanded into digital and social media
to meet Millennials on their home turf. “We have
to adapt the way in which our content gets deliv-
ered,” says Norton. “It is mobile first and very much
socially driven, and the need for us to win in the
feed, that side-door entry method that they are pick-
ing up in their social feeds—that is where we have
a lot of focus.”
Condé Nast is far from alone. Every major pub-
lishing company has built a robust digital presence
for its marquee brands. “The model is definitely
integrated,” says Michael Clinton, president, mar-
keting and publishing director of Hearst Magazines.
“We don’t care where the point of entry is—just
that she is engaging with the brand. The beauty of
digital is that we have multiple ways of connecting
with audiences…The buildout of Cosmo Snapchat
is enormous, for example, and while there is not
subscription revenue, there is a lot of advertising
revenue. It allows us to monetize the brand in many
different ways, which is a new model.”
According to Poynter, Cosmopolitan’s Snapchat
Discover channel generated 19 million average
monthly visits in December. As Silber points out,
while figures like that have been very positive for
the host platform—to wit, those revenue increases—
it is less clear how sizable the return will be for the
content creators, in this case Cosmo. The key is to
own the audience, says Silber. “I’m not sure what’s
coming next,” he notes, “but if I were a media com-
pany, I wouldn’t be comfortable having someone
else own the way an audience interacts with my
content. I would be devoting resources to making
my interaction with the audience direct, with e-mail
newsletters, mobile alerts, whatever it is.”
Also unclear is whether ad revenues from digital
can even begin to approach the profitability of print
at its heyday. “They are print companies—that is
their core, and it is unclear whether digital revenues
will ever equal print revenues, because they charge
less and it is labor intensive,” says Tom Delaney,
publisher of the media and marketing newsletter,
The Delaney Report. “Are they making money? Who
knows? It’s like Trump’s taxes—we will never know
because they are private companies.”
What is certain is the impact that the new reality
is having on the editorial side of the business—start-
define it—it might be video, it might be program-
matic, it might be marketing services, it might be
e-commerce, it might be relying more on subscrip-
tions than on advertising.”
Meanwhile, digital platforms continue to post
record-breaking revenues. Facebook reported a 57
percent increase in year-over-year ad revenues for
2016 to $26.9 billion and an 18 percent increase in
daily active users to 1.23 billion. For the fourth quar-
ter of 2016 alone, mobile represented 84 percent of
all advertising revenue, or about $7.2 billion.
For its part, Snap, parent company of Snapchat,
released its first public prospectus in early Febru-
ary in advance of an initial public offering, show-
ing advertising revenues of $404 million in 2016,
versus $58.7 million the year before, a nearly sev-
enfold increase.
“We are in a state of change and dramatic trans-
formation across the board in every business,” says
Jane Hertzmark Hudis, group president at the
Estée Lauder Cos. “We as beauty brands are becom-
ing not only product companies, but product and
media companies. Every year, we are allocating a
significantly greater portion of our time, energy and
human talent, external and internal, to digital and
social. Having said that, magazines play a key and
vital role in this industry. The way we are consum-
ing media is not about one piece of the puzzle or
the other, but how they all fit together.”
All of which begs the question: In an omnichan-
nel world, what is the role—and the future—of heri-
tage media brands? Is the evolution from owning
In today’s information ecosystem, print is the ulti-mate paradox. ¶ On the one hand, celebrities are still clamoring to land covers, A-list editors are still treated like royalty and even online influencers vie for space in the very pages of the publications they’ve supplanted
as top tastemakers. ¶ On the other, the number of titles continues to contract alarmingly, editors once considered industry institutions are getting the boot (ouch!) and brands that once vied for prime positioning in the glossy pages of a top-tier magazine have defected to digital (best-case scenario) or even started their own competing content plays (worst).
Yet one can’t live without the other. Just as in the
beauty industry where heritage brands are feeling
the pinch of digital upstarts, so goes life in publish-
ing, where titles once considered untouchable are
feeling their way in an uncertain future, looking to
staunch declining print revenues with increased
digital sales, new revenue streams like e-commerce
and events and large-scale layoffs. “The business
model is completely unclear, so there is a series of
convulsions going on,” says Tony Silber, vice presi-
dent of content at Folio and MIN, citing Meredith
Corp. as but one recent example. Less than a week
after reporting fiscal 2017 second-quarter ad rev-
enues increased 11 percent to $267 million in late
January, the company announced 40 layoffs. A look
at the numbers shows that while Meredith’s TV rev-
enues increased 31 percent to $183 million, its mag-
azine revenues declined 2 percent to $135 million.
Digital advertising revenue increased 16 percent.
For its part, Time Inc.’s third-quarter 2016 reve-
nues, the most recent period for which figures were
available, decreased $23 million, or 3 percent, pri-
marily reflecting declines in print and other adver-
tising revenues, and circulation revenues, accord-
ing to the company. Time’s advertising revenues
increased 5 percent in the same period to $19 mil-
lion, which it attributed primarily to the acquisition
of the ad technology company Viant and, to a lesser
extent, to programmatic sales. Time announced lay-
offs in January as well, which came on top of a 2016
that saw the company significantly revamp its top
leadership and slash more than 100 jobs.
While Condé Nast and Hearst are privately held
companies that don’t disclose numbers, executive
shake-ups, title closings, layoffs, position consoli-
dation and a push to diversify have made headlines
all around.
“These are blue chip media companies—they are
as good as it gets and for them to be scrambling
and struggling says a lot,” says Silber. “It doesn’t
indicate an underlying lack of health, but it under-
lies a struggle over what the new model is. The fact
is, there is no stable model. They are struggling to
“Are they mAking money?...it’s like
trump’s tAxes—we will never know
becAuse they Are privAte compAnies.”
Tom delaney, the Delaney Report
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ing at the top. Editors in chief must also be social
media-savvy influencers in chief. Time Inc., for
example, recently poached Harper’s Bazaar’s Laura
Brown, who had 116,000 Instagram followers as of
press time, to be editor in chief of InStyle, replac-
ing Ariel Foxman whose following numbered 25,100
(about the same as Glamour editor in chief Cindi
Leive and slightly more than Allure editor Michelle
Lee. Anna Wintour, artistic director of Condé Nast
and editor in chief of Vogue, doesn’t seem to have an
official Instagram presence, although her daughter,
Bee Shaffer, has an impressive following of 95,000.)
“Laura Brown is an influencer in a ton of ways,”
says Brad Elders, executive vice president and chief
revenue officer of Time Inc. “That is the lens by
which we are looking to make these important hires.
They have to be comfortable with social media and
have the ability to bring the consumer population
along for the ride. It creates an avenue in which we
can work with our advertising partners.”
But being a social media star can also be tricky
terrain for an editor. Says one beauty editor at a
top publishing house who spoke on conditions of
anonymity, “The social media expectations on us
are constantly evolving. There is pressure to be the
face of the brand, but not too much—so to compare
the crowd that an editor would pull at a depart-
ment store event versus someone like Man Repel-
ler is unfair, because I might get penalized if I were
constantly self-promoting in a way that makes me
bigger than the magazine.”
Linda Wells, the former editor in chief of Allure
who currently edits a beauty insert for multiple
Hearst Magazines and is beauty editor at large of
New York’s The Cut, believes opinion is more impor-
tant than eyeballs. “Editors need a point of view, a
very strong identity,” she says. “I don’t think that a
lot of followers always translates to broad success.
It’s like when editors had to go on TV in the morn-
ing shows. I don’t know that it created a single
subscription,” she laughs. “The value was in gain-
ing relationships with beauty brands. It was great
to go on the Today show and talk about a product
that otherwise would have no chance to be on the
show. Now, there are more direct ways for brands
to reach the consumer.”
And therein lies the rub. Today, many of the
very brands that were once a magazine’s bread
and butter have their own content plays—making
them both client and competitor with many media
brands. “Every brand is a media company and that
is not exclusive to magazines,” says Rachel Davis
Mersey, PhD, an associate professor at Northwestern
University’s Medill School of Journalism. “As those
brands begin to exercise knowledge of the mar-
ketplace and their audience, the blurring is going
to become so hazy it’s hard to find the center. My
sense is that if it is high-quality content that people
are engaged with, they are less concerned about the
source, whether it is Revlon or Allure.”
It’s that very sense of information overload that
may serve to save magazines in the end, particularly
in the age of fake news. “There is a place for print,”
says Marc Rey, chief executive officer of Shiseido’s
American subsidiary. “Where they need to compete
is content and point of view. They can’t compete on
news—that would be like if Macy’s tried to compete
in time of delivery against Amazon,” he says. “But
the thinking, the relevancy, the information—there
is still a place for that.”
For Elle’s beauty director, Emily Dougherty, that
means continually being ahead of the curve. “When
I look at my pages, every square inch needs to be
packed with information that the reader can’t get
for free,” she says. “If you’re just reporting on the
trends, you’re competing with everyone online. If
you’re interpreting and predicting where the market
goes, you will always have the reader.”
InStyle, too, is expanding the parameters of its
traditional coverage. “For a young reader, it’s a
lifestyle choice to pick up a magazine,” says fash-
ion news director Eric Wilson. “They are engaging
directly with celebrities and have all this informa-
tion at their fingertips, so our concept for print is
to go way beyond the kind of coverage we used to
do.” As an example, he cites a profile of designer
Jonathan Anderson. “Designers who once would
have been unheard of are now getting coverage,”
says Wilson. “Readers want to be exposed to new
names more quickly than in the past.”
The new balancing act for editors is to maintain a
strong point of view despite the ongoing consolida-
tion of editorial functions and the increased role edi-
tors are expected to play, from the sanctioned, such
as co-creators of branded content and overseers of
events, to the implicit. Says one longtime beauty edi-
tor, “You are asked to do things a marketing person
would normally do, in addition to the editorial stuff—
consult with brands, help them navigate the next two,
three, five years in product launches, create advertorial
ideas—anything a brand wants we are offered up for.
Anything they want, they get.”
Despite the continual reallocation of media dollars,
beauty marketers insist that they are still interested in
the print platform, noting that it provides them with a
suitable environment to “express the official point of
view of the brand in a place that has a lot of credibility
with consumers,” as Shiseido’s Rey puts it.
Perhaps no one better personifies the dichotomy
of the media landscape than Emily Weiss, a for-
mer editor who founded the fledgling product line
Glossier and the content web site, Into the Gloss.
Ask her about the future of content and her answer
is instantaneous: “Products represent the future of
content—we live in the age of user-generated con-
tent and product reviews,” she says. “I see products
as an object for you to interpret in whatever way
you want to create your own narrative.”
But the brand side of her recognizes the endur-
ing power of print. “Brand names like Vogue and
Allure create a ton of legitimacy,” Weiss says. “We
won an Allure Best of Beauty [award]. For a direct-
to-consumer brand, we have good penetration and
great reviews, but for a woman in the middle of the
country to discover us through that—it creates a
credibility that wouldn’t otherwise exist.” ■
A Post-Print BluePrint Former beauty editor Patricia reynoso on liFe aFter magazines.
I’ve been laId off three tImes. Three times I’ve been summoned to a mystery meeting for which I’ve grabbed my notebook just in case notes were needed. I’ve made my way down a quiet hallway, my heart jumping out of my chest once I realize that perhaps there isn’t any meeting. I’ve been ushered into a conference room where usually a lone box of tissues rests on the center of the table, an HR rep and my editor in chief sitting solemnly around it.
Damn, I think. Again?And yet—I loved being a magazine beauty
editor. I had the dreamiest of jobs at several dreamy magazines: W, Ladies’ Home Journal, and most recently, as editor of Glamour’s Glam Belleza Latina. I’ve worn my name tag proudly at the hundreds of launch events that I’ve attended over two decades. I asked good questions and complained only minimally on press trips. However, none of this has protected me from publishing’s new economic reality of less print, more digital. I understand the shift, though. My teenage kids would rather skip dinner than have their phones taken away.
So here I am. Yet another publishing veteran trying to transition her experience towards the next, most likely digitally focused, career phase. Am I digital? What does that even mean? To paraphrase my husband by way of Jay Z and Kanye West via “Blades of Glory”: “Digital? No one knows what it means, but it gets the people going!”
This is why on most days, you’ll find me scrounging up my digital experience like someone trying to find coins behind her sofa cushions. And I do have significant experience. I spent five years in public relations at Lancôme, working with Michelle Phan, the brand’s (and the industry’s) first video makeup artist. I courted beauty bloggers back when few brands returned their e-mails. Most recently, I wrapped up a gig with Hearst’s Branded Content Studio.
It was there that I learned valuable lessons that go beyond SEO and impressions and metrics. I learned that print editors must hold their precious experience with a skeptical eye. (Yes, you were amazing and did amazing things but your new coworkers are half your age, and they’re not impressed.) Time spent forming strong relationships with everyone—not just the cool people—will pay off now. (You never know who will give you a helping hand.) Remember that when you’re writing stories, fast and nimble always supersedes slow and methodical.
Now please excuse me. The kids are cracking up over a Snapchat video and I want to get a laugh.
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allurePrint
Jenny BaILLy, execuTIve BeauTy dIrecTorcirculation: 1.172 million; avg. 80-85 beauty pages/issue¬ “Beauty is our inspiration, sometimes it’s our aspiration and always, it’s the lens through which we see the world. Travel, celebrity, art, food, politics—we explore everything through this universal point of entry.”
Digital
SophIa panych, dIgITaL depuTy BeauTy dIrecTor reach: 5 million monthly uniques*; avg. 18-20 posts/day¬ “We maintain the same ethos of the magazine—the same level of reporting, quality of experts, beautiful imagery and approach to beauty in a smart, inclusive way that goes beyond a smoky eye tutorial. But we have a great one of those, too.”
CosmoPolitan PRINTcirculation: 3 million; avg. 18 beauty pages/issue Leah wyar romIToSee hearST
Digital
carLy cardeLLIno, BeauTy dIrecTor reach: 16.3 million monthly uniques*; avg. 3-5 stories/day¬ “I always want Cosmopolitan.com readers to feel like they are discovering trends with us, rather than feel like we’re talking down to them. I tap into the feedback we receive across all of our
social platforms, to learn what our readers want more of and what angles and language they respond to.”
elle Print
emILy dougherTy, BeauTy and FITneSS dIrecTor circulation: 1.1 million; avg. 13 beauty pages/issue¬ “I don't just cover what people want to know about right at this second—we have Google for that. Instead, I share with my readers what they are going to be dreaming about tomorrow.”
Digital
JuLIe SchoTT, BeauTy dIrecTor reach: 7.5 million monthly uniques*; avg. 3-4 posts/day¬ “Our beauty content covers more than just beauty. Take our Braid Star video series: In each episode, hair stylist Guingui (the Picasso of braiding) creates an insane new look for a musician or actress, set to a soundtrack you’d listen to on Spotify.”
essenCePrint anD Digital
JuLee wILSon, BeauTy and STyLe dIrecTor circulation: 1 million; 4-5 stories/issueReach: 4.4 million monthly uniques*; 7 posts/day¬ “Our coverage is a daily celebration of the beautiful diversity of black women. Whether swooning over a stunning celebrity look, learning to slay the hottest hairstyle, or basking in the dopeness of our everyday beauty we strive to give our readers inspiration.”
¬ “Our unparalleled access to celebrity artists and stylists means we are able to provide insider beauty inspiration while breaking runway and red-carpet trends daily.”
marie ClairePrint
erIn FLaherTy, BeauTy and heaLTh dIrecTor circulation: 1 million; avg. 16 stories/issue¬ “Our approach is global in nature, not only because it's part of our DNA, but also because it's important to view beauty through an anthropological lens. I don’t believe in ‘makeovers’ or ‘how to copy a celebrity’s look.’ Our readers, and women in general, are more confident than that, so I try to keep that in mind by offering coverage that never dictates, only inspires.”
Digital
Lauren vaLenTI, BeauTy edITorreach: 6 million monthly uniques*; avg. 4-5 posts/day¬ “We actively research and identify gaps in the online beauty space. Sometimes that means spotlighting a powerful movement that hasn’t gone mainstream yet; other times it’s as simple as being the first to report a crazy new trend emerging on Instagram.”
new york magazine/ the CutPrint anD Digital
KaThLeen hou, SenIor BeauTy edITor circulation: 400,000reach: 7.6 million monthly uniques; 4 posts/day ¬ “I cover the who, what, where, why and how of beauty, but I'm also really interested in beauty from an anthropological point of view and like to examine the context in which all people consume, view and use beauty, whether it be at Fashion Week, on social media or in ‘real’ life.”
glamourPrint anD Digital
yIng chu, execuTIve BeauTy dIrecTor circulation: 2.3 million; 10-20 beauty pages/issuereach: 8 million monthly uniques*; 3-4 avg. posts/day ¬ “Glamour is a huge, iconic American brand; our women are diverse in every way. My priority is to make sure that their diverse voices and beauty interests are always represented. And to find the most interesting angles for short- and long-lead stories. There’s an art to that.”
good housekeePingPrint
aprIL FranzIno, BeauTy dIrecTor circulation: 4.3 million; avg. 6 pages/issue¬ “We look at not only what’s gorgeous and of-the-moment, but how to translate that into our readers’ everyday lives, bringing them actionable, accessible, surprising tips and solutions. We then use our Beauty Lab scientists’ expertise and rigorous testing to distill what’s worth it for readers and what’s not.”
harPer’s BazaarPrint
aLexandra parnaSS, BeauTy dIrecTor circulation: 737,000; avg. 16 stories/issue¬ “I take my role as a tastemaker seriously, and set an incredibly high
bar for what makes the cut. That means digging deep into the science and technology of what’s happening in ingredient delivery, cutting-edge cosmetic procedures and anything in the antiaging arena, including health and fitness.”
Digital
Jenna roSenSTeIn, SenIor BeauTy edITor reach: 6.5 million monthly uniques*; 3-4 posts/day ¬ “I focus on what I know our audience loves as opposed to what happens to be viral that day. I take a scientific approach, yet I still serve it to our readers as if it’s information coming from a friend. It’s about striking that tricky balance between a conversational tone and hard-hitting research.”
hearst magazines Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Women’s DayPrint:
Leah wyar romITo, chIeF BeauTy dIrecTor, hearST magazIneS¬ “In my role, I oversee the production of 60+ edit pages per month, scaling information to a collective audience of 15 million women, spanning four generations.”
instylePrint anD Digital
angeLIque Serrano, BeauTy dIrecTor circulation: 1.7 million; 20 pages/issueReach: 6.4 million monthly uniques*; avg. 10 posts/day
LInda weLLS, BeauTy edITor aT Large ¬ “I gravitate to stories about people and products that shape our culture's view of beauty, and I love entering particular worlds (Sephora, QVC) to discover how they function and what they mean, kind of like a beauty-centric, risk-averse George Plimpton. Generally, I leave the Kardashian-Jenner industrial complex to the rest of the interweb. Since I have a jillion years of experience in the field, I can spot bogus products and trends, and I'll call them out if they're duping consumers.”
nylonPrint
Jade TayLor, BeauTy edITor circulation: 1.2 million; avg. 6 stories/issue¬ “I've conceptualized editorials inspired by aliens, mall Goths, skaters, drag queens...should I keep going? My aesthetic is very antibeauty editor sometimes. Feminism is not a beauty trend. Body hair is not a beauty trend. Gender identity is not a beauty trend. But they’re important topics that I weave into my stories with the hopes they might help, inspire or encourage our readers who might feel alone or different.”
o, the oPrah magazine
vaL monroe, BeauTy dIrecTorcirculation: 2.4 million; avg. 9 pages/issue¬ “Oprah Winfrey stands for a relentless authenticity that pervades the magazine, and the beauty pages are no exception. We write about beauty in a way that honors the reader: Keeping promises realistic, ideals within reach and a tone that invites and inspires her.”
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healthcirculation: 1.36 million; 4-5 stories/issuereach: 8.6 million uniques*; 1-3 stories/day ¬ “For Health readers, looking good is feeling good. They want to know, above all: Is it good for you? And does it work? Our beauty content sweet spot is the intersection between science and trends.”
redBookPrint
vIcTorIa KIrBy, BeauTy dIrecTorcirculation: 2.2 million; avg. 16 pages/issue ¬ “Redbook is her personal beauty consultant. We offer straightforward, conversational advice that makes her life easier, her routine faster and more effective and gives her confidence.”
stylewatChPrint
hoLLy carTer, BeauTy dIrecTorcirculation: 825,081; avg. 12-16 beauty pages/issue¬ “We are about making beauty accessible and fun. Our goal is to make readers’ lives easier by distilling down the science of beauty into simple solutions, curating lists of products that work and provide value.”
teen VoguePrint
JeSSIca maTLIn, BeauTy and heaLTh dIrecTorcirculation: 1,007,108; avg. 5 stories/issue¬ “Our stories frequently go beyond tips and techniques to reflect the cultural and political Zeitgeist. Still, I do love makeup, skin care and all that fun stuff: I got into
the business because as a teen, I understood that beauty is an incredible tool for creativity, self-expression and individuality. Instead of celebrating someone else’s idea of #goals, it’s my job to help our readers find that within themselves.”
Digital
emILy gaynor, dIgITaL BeauTy edITorreach: 4.4 million monthly uniques*; avg. 7 posts/weekday, 2 per day on weekends¬ “We like to explore the intersection of beauty and identity. A big part of our mission is empowering and emboldening young people to explore personal expression.”
town & CountryPrint
JamIe roSen, BeauTy dIrecTorPrint: 453,000 circulation; avg. 5 pages/issue¬ “Our readers are not coming to us for how-tos and basic instruction. Because price, distance and detail are not limitations, we report on the cutting edge of longevity medicine, bespoke diets and the endless pursuit of youth and beauty. We filter everything through a cultural lens that touches on art, design, travel and politics.”
us weeklyPrint anD Digital
gwen FLamBerg, BeauTy dIrecTorcirculation: 1.9 million; 1.5 pages per issuereach: 20.4 million monthly uniques*; average 10 posts/day¬ “Our access to Hollywood and A-List glam squad pros is unrivaled, giving Us robust red carpet expertise. I quickly identify and report trends and stories across all platforms. With the immediate feedback we get through digital and social, not to mention beauty trends that groundswell in Hollywood, I can make our
into the gloss
emILy FerBer, SenIor edITorreach: 302,000 monthly uniques*; avg. 2 posts/day¬ “We’re very thoughtful with everything we publish—we’re less about covering every new launch and more focused on the absolute best products we’ve found from our experience and personal routines. It’s a slower and more deliberate process.”
PoPsugar
Lauren LevInSon, SenIor BeauTy edITorreach: 7.4 million monthly uniques*; avg. 8-15 posts/day¬ “We empower and inspire our readers to feel beautiful inside and out while respecting their individuality. Our content covers all ethnicities, complexions and hair types: you'll find everything from an Indian bridal makeup tutorial to holistic ways to deal with acne.”
refinery29
caT quInn, BeauTy dIrecTorreach: 19 million monthly uniques*; 15-20 posts/day¬ “Celebrating individuality is at the heart of everything Refinery29 does. We see beauty as a means to enhance and transform, rather than a limiting set of rules. We aim to make our readers feel uplifted, inspired, and represented every time they come to our site.”
the zoe rePort
STephanIe monTeS, SenIor BeauTy edITorreach: 2.8 million monthly uniques*; avg. 5 stories/day¬ “Our content is geared towards the busy modern woman, providing her with multitasking products, speedy tutorials and expert tips to look beautiful with minimal effort.”
pages a part of the beauty conversation at any moment.”
Vanity fairPrint anD Digital
Sunhee grInneLL, BeauTy edITorPrint: 1.2 million; avg. 2 stories/issueDigital: 11.4 million monthly uniques*; avg. 3-4 posts/week¬ “I consider myself a personal shopper: an expert in the field with a deep understanding and knowledge of a brand’s history and innovation. I always look at brands or products with an editorial angle; I don’t want something that will be a one-minute social media buzz.”
VoguePrint
ceLIa eLLenBerg, BeauTy dIrecTor circulation: 1.2 million; avg. 6 stories/issue¬ “News happens at lightning speed, and being on a monthly production cycle means you’re not able to capitalize on those kinds of breaking stories. But that leaves an exciting opportunity for us be better at storytelling, and to find the best voices to relay those messages alongside the most arresting photography in the world.”
Digital
caTherIne pIercy, BeauTy dIrecTor reach: 5.5 million monthly uniques*; avg. 8 posts/day ¬ “How do we move the conversation forward on beauty? That’s what we’re asking ourselves on a daily basis. There’s something wrapped up in beauty that’s connected to the cultural Zeitgeist in a uniquely personal way. It has its own emotional pulse. We’re always trying to observe that, turn it over and have fun with it, too.”
*SOuRCE: comscore (u.s. multiplatform average monthly unique visitors for jan.-dec. 2016)
PeoPle Print anD Digital
andrea LavInThaL, STyLe and BeauTy dIrecTor circulation: 3.5 million; 2-4 stories/issue plus people beauty special 4-7 pages/monthDigital: 33.5 million monthly uniques*; 6-12 stories/day¬ “We have unparalleled access to the biggest stars in Hollywood and their equally A-list glam squads. Our coverage is 360 degrees, hitting readers with inspiration, guidance and expert advice, on all platforms.”
PeoPle en esPañolPrint anD Digital
urSuLa carranza, FaShIon and BeauTy dIrecTor circulation: 550,000; avg. 5 stories/issuereach: 1.2 million monthly uniques*; avg. 6 posts/day¬ “Latinas overindex on the consumption of beauty products, yet there is a surprising lack of stories that address her struggles and successes. Covering their issues is our top priority. Another plus is the close relationship we maintain with our community’s top celebrities.”
real simPle, health Print anD Digital
heaTher muIr maFFeI, BeauTy dIrecTorReal Simple: circulation: 2 million; 5-6 stories/issuereach: 7.7 million monthly uniques*; 1-2 stories/day¬ “In a celebrity-obsessed, Instagram-filtered world, Real Simple celebrates real women and their everyday lives. We produce content that saves women time, energy and money and encourages individuality. We help cut through the overwhelming choices of the beauty aisles, acting as a cheat sheet to make purchasing decisions easier.”
women’s healthPrint anD Digital
maura Lynch, BeauTy and LIFeSTyLe dIrecTorcirculation: 1.5 million; avg. 12 stories/issueDigital: 7.2 million monthly uniques*; avg. 20 stories/month¬ “Our content is centered around wellness. Our reader is invested in taking care of herself—inside and out. For this reason, we dig deep to explain how a beauty product, routine or trend affects her physical and emotional self, and we never skimp on the details or the science.”
dIgITaL onLy
Byrdie Beauty
FaITh xue, edITorIaL dIrecTorreach: 1.8 million monthly uniques*; avg. 10-14 posts/day ¬ “Our reader wants to know the magic product that will cure her acne, but she’s also interested in what she can eat (and avoid) to keep her skin clear; beauty from the inside out.”
fashionista.Com
STephanIe SaLTzman, BeauTy edITorreach: 1.2 million monthly uniques*; avg. 2-6 posts/day¬ “We focus heavily on the influencer space, cult brands that rose to fame on Instagram, and out-there beauty trends that gain traction on social media.”
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THE U.S. AT A GLANCEAccording to NPD’s fragranceconsumer survey, Scentiments, close to 90 percent of surveyors use more than one fragrance. Here, the 2016 top sellers in the U.S.
Dior Poison Girl Eau de Toilette
THE NEXT WAVERounding up some significantspring launches.
Bulgari Rose Goldea
Sisley Paris Izia Eau de Parfum
$115/3.4 oz.
$98/3.0 oz.
$155/3.0 oz.
$220/3.4 oz.
Tory Burch Love RelentlesslyEau de Parfum
Jimmy Choo l’Eau
Carolina Herrera Good GirlEau de Parfum
$115/2.7 oz.
$98/3.0 oz.
L’Occitane Terre de Lumière
$325/3.4 oz.
Ex Nihilo Devil TenderEau de Parfum
GLOBAL RETAIL FRAGRANCE SALESIn billions of U.S. dollars
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USA
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TOP 5 GLOBAL FRAGRANCE MARKETS IN 2016* In billions of U.S. dollars
USA BRA SAU U.K. GER
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$5.8B
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TOP 10 PREFERREDFRAGRANCE ATTRIBUTES
$92 3.4 oz.
TOP 3 MEN’SFRAGRANCES OF 2016
1. Giorgio Armani AcquaDi Gio Pour Homme
2. Chanel Bleu de ChanelEau de Toilette
3. Dior SauvageEau de Toilette $89 3.4 oz.
$85 3.4 oz.
TOP 3 WOMEN’SFRAGRANCES OF 2016
1. Chanel CocoMademoiselleEau de Parfum
2. Chanel ChanceEau de Parfum
3. Philosophy AmazingGrace Eau de Toilette $48 2.0 oz.
$124 3.4 oz.
$124 3.4 oz.
$100/3.4 oz.
Source: Mintel Group Ltd.
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Floral
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$28.7B
PrestigeMarket
$35.4B $45.9B $47.4B
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$132
$55
$108
$85
TOP 5 LAUNCHES OF 2016
1. Yves Saint Laurent Mon Paris
Source: NPD
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2. Chanel No 5. l’Eau3.4 oz.
3. Coach Eau de Parfum1.0 oz.
4. Michael Kors WonderlustEau de Parfum
3.4 oz.
5. Montblanc Legend SpiritEau de Toilette
3.3 oz.
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