The Business of Fashion
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Social Bella International (Sociolla) raised 818 billion rupiah ($56.6 million) in funding led by LVMH-backed private equity firm L Catterton in the latter’s first investment in Indonesia, DealStreetAsia reports.
Social Bella is a six-year-old business that sells make-up, skincare, haircare, fragrance and beauty tools online and in eight physical stores. It claims to have amassed more than 20 million users across its Sociolla, SO.CO and Beauty Journal platforms in 2019, the same year the company launched its first flagship store. Social Bella also distributes and develops beauty brands in its local market and expanded into Vietnam last year.
L Catterton’s investment will go towards helping Social Bella target new Gen Z and Millennial shoppers. The firm will also join Social Bella’s board of directors.
The timeless appeal of the south Asian classic has gone global — and a new London exhibition shows how it has been reinvented.
The second edition of Oud Fashion Talks explored the forces transforming the Gulf’s fashion industry today, with key learnings from BoF Insights’ ‘Fashion in the Middle East’ report and from executives of local retailers, manufacturers, designers and entrepreneurs.
Accessible luxury and advanced contemporary brands in the US and Europe can expect greater competition from Australian labels expanding overseas like Camilla, Aje and Rebecca Vallance.
The Ugandan-born model how he is finding purpose in pursuing an unconventional career to support his family and the community he comes from.