François Nars

BoF’s Editor-at-Large travels back in time to the designer’s Edie Sedgwick-inflected Spring 2013 show which reimagined proper little misses from the early 60s in a parade of bizarre propriety.

Shiseido’s $845 million acquisition of Drunk Elephant was the most buzzed-about beauty deal of 2019. Here’s how the Japanese conglomerate plans to turn its new brand into a global powerhouse. 

The 25 year-old brand is about to double the size of its business for the third time in the past decade, on the back of sexually charged products like 1999's Orgasm blush. Many of its ‘90s peers haven’t been so lucky.

A new generation of celebrity makeup artists hopes to parlay social media influence into big business. But it takes more than a couple million Instagram followers to become the next Pat McGrath.

Hair and makeup companies are turning fashion week partnerships into powerful brand marketing tools.