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Body care has been a central focus for SEPHORA. The category was a key theme of the retailer’s annual brand summit in fall 2023, according to attendees. Ulta Beauty is also reportedly growing its body care assortment —?the retailer recently lost market share in hair and color cosmetics, according to Euromonitor data cited by Jefferies investment bank. #Sephora reached $10 billion in 2023 sales, according to numerous reports at the end of last year. #bodycare

The secondhand fashion industry has considerably grown up over the last five years. Platforms like The RealReal and Fashionphile have become major players in the industry, A-list celebrities like Jessica Chastain have endorsed secondhand fashion, and even luxury brands like Burberry have worked directly with resale platforms. Now, the next step of the resale sector’s maturation is here: legislation and regulation. American Circular Textiles, a coalition of fashion and textile companies dedicated to the progression of resale, launched a petition this month to end the imposition of sales tax on secondhand purchases. Currently, many states require sales tax to be paid on secondhand goods, even though, in theory, sales tax has already been paid on the item when it was sold the first time.

Speaking at Digiday’s Retail Media Strategies event on Thursday morning, a joint event hosted by Glossy and its sister publications Digiday and Modern Retail, Maiah Martin explained the intricacies of Clinique’s wholesale retail strategy. Wholesale makes up more than 80% of Clinique’s sales, so keeping retailers like Ulta happy is an important part of the company’s continued success.

Lisa Guerrera and Emmy Ketcham, co-founders of Experiment, met in 2019 at an event for the Sephora Accelerate program, which Guerrera participated in with her first business. Together, they soft-launched their skin-care brand in 2020 with a lime-green silicone sheet mask. Since then, the brand has grown to include products including a glycerin-based hydrating serum, a “micro-slugging” oil gel and a lip balm. Its first cleanser will launch in a few weeks. In April, Experiment announced a $3.3 million seed round, led by Greycroft. On this week’s episode of the Glossy Beauty Podcast, the duo discusses how they launched the company with $8,500, why theirs is a brand for the “nerdy, smart girl” and why science ultimately beat out “clean” beauty.

For anyone watching the #beauty industry closely, it feels like another brand or retailer shutters almost every day. Operating in a crowded marketplace like beauty is inherently challenging, but add in a global pandemic followed by inflation, sky-high interest rates,?unanticipated legal trouble?and rapidly changing technology that impacts how one reaches their consumer, and the cause of these closures becomes more clear.?#dtc

The luxury bag accessories trend has gained significant momentum in recent years, as playful personalization has caught on, fueled by younger consumers. This trend has roots in Asia, particularly in Japan, where the concept of “kawaii,” or cuteness, and playful fashion accessories have long been a staple.

On the final day of the official New York Fashion Week Spring 2025, Vanessa Friedman joined the Glossy Podcast to discuss the highlights. As fashion director and chief fashion critic of The New York Times since 2014, Friedman has attended four consecutive fashion weeks twice per year for years. That experience has translated to a unique take on the events’ noteworthy shows, trends and celebrity sightings. This New York Fashion Week, those included Off-White, fringe and Stephanie Seymour, respectively, she said. Also on the podcast, Friedman discussed the rise of political designers, the evolution of New York Fashion Week and the young designers that have earned coverage in the NYT.

In our Meeting the Customer Where They Are: Inside Clinique’s Evolving Retail Media Strategies session, Jill Manoff chats with Maiah Martin of Clinique about retail media opportunities the brand is investing in now and how leveraging retail media plays into the brand’s larger goal of “meeting the customer where they are.” #RetailMediaStrategies

It’s no secret that the beauty industry has a pump waste problem. As?previously reported by Glossy, the mixed-material pumps commonly found on cleansers, lotions, serums, and a variety of other liquid, gel and cream formulas are notoriously difficult to recycle. This issue has left brands and retailers hungry for a solution that aligns with their values and goals — and created a gap in the packaging marketplace. #sustainability Read more: https://lnkd.in/dv_Z94zn

On Thursday, Credo, the clean beauty retailer started in 2015, launched a new in-house skin-care range aimed at being the catalyst for industry-wide packaging disruption. Credo’s new eponymous line was created in partnership with Pact Collective, a nonprofit focused on reducing beauty packaging waste that was launched as an experiment between Credo Beauty and clean cosmetics brand MOB Beauty in 2021. In a few short years, Pact has become the go-to recycler for beauty brands like L’Oréal USA, Fenty Beauty, Caliray, Ceremonia and Summer Fridays, as well as retailers like Sephora, Ulta Beauty, Detox Market and COS Bar.