Tatcha's Vicky Tsai: 'Love your clients, love your products, everything else is icing.'
About 10 years ago, Vicky Tsai chose happiness. After years of working in corporate, she slowly realized that she didn't know what she wanted to do with her career. She had also been struggling with a...
3 Tammi 201927min
Celebrity hairstylist Frederic Fekkai: 'I need to build brands I believe in'
When Frederic Fekkai was a young man, he had no intention of entering the beauty space. In fact, he didn't even know it existed. Shortly after this discovery, Fekkai quit law school, moved to Paris an...
27 Joulu 201823min
Saks' Kate Oldham: 'There's always something outside the word of beauty that drives the category.'
Kate Oldham has spent most of her life working at Saks. Her first job with the company, a sales associate at their flagship store, was supposed to be a short term way to make money while she searched ...
20 Joulu 201825min
Shiseido president of global development Jill Scalamandre: 'I'm a brand builder'
When Jill Scalamandre first started her career, she wasn't interested in beauty. She had spent some time after college working in a fashion house in Paris and was trying to figure out her next steps w...
13 Joulu 201833min
Dirty Lemon's Zak Normandin: 'Conversational commerce is the future'
Zak Normandin is a problem solver. Back in 2009, he founded Little Duck Organics because he was having a hard time finding healthy snacks for his kids. After selling off a majority of that company, he...
6 Joulu 201832min
L'Oreal president of acquisitions Carol Hamilton: 'Transcending all trends is the experience a brand gives you'
From the time Carol Hamilton was a little girl, she knew that she had a passion for beauty. What started as a love for lipstick would eventually blossom into a long, successful career in beauty. Now s...
29 Marras 201830min
Peach & Lily's Alicia Yoon: 'An industry is as innovative as consumers are demanding'
When Peach & Lily founder and CEO Alicia Yoon moved to the United States from Korea to attend college, she would often share her love for Korean-based beauty via products and facials. Still, she often...
22 Marras 201838min
Revlon chief creative officer Linda Wells: 'Big companies have big business and have a lot of money, but there is an alternative way to starting a beauty company'
Since former Allure editor in chief Linda Wells landed at Revlon as chief creative officer in February 2017, she has had a busy last 21 months. Not only has she renovated all of the consumer touchpoin...
15 Marras 201831min
