Innovation over product proliferation: Olaplex CEO JuE Wong on her plans for the company This past January, JuE Wong joined hair-care brand Olaplex as its CEO -- not because it had budding potential, but because of the strength of its existing assets. For one, the demand is there. "What we are seeing is that, when people are looking at their hair, they look at...
Kendra Scott on the ‘muscle memory’ gained from a financial crisis Kendra Scott insists she isn't kidding when she says she's thankful for 2008's Great Recession. "I honestly believe we would not be talking today if that recession hadn't happened, because it forced me to have to run my business differently," Scott said on the Glossy Podcast. Scott quickly pivoted the...
La Prairie Group’s François Le Gloan on responding to the ‘stress test’ of the pandemic For La Prairie Group regional vice president François Le Gloan, what the luxury beauty brand didn't do in response to the coronavirus pandemic is as important as what it did. "We have seen a flurry of promotions," he said about the larger beauty industry, on the Glossy Beauty Podcast. "With...
Another Tomorrow CEO Vanessa Barboni Hallik on how the fashion industry can catch up on sustainability Fashion is a notoriously damaging industry for the environment. "It was clear to me that the industry was a solid 7-10 years behind a number of other major consumer industries like food and CPG -- in owning up to the problems, putting in place solutions and educating the consumer," Another...
Luxury Brand Partners’ Tev Finger on knowing (and creating) what beauty conglomerates want before they do When Tev Finger pitched his idea to Estée Lauder — an in-house brand incubator that he would run — the company almost went for it. "I give a lot of credit. It's hard for a company that buys brands that are profitable to even contemplate taking a risk on incubators,"...
7 For All Mankind’s Suzanne Silverstein: ‘Retailers with brick-and-mortar locations will have to work harder’ 7 For All Mankind is nearly synonymous with the top-shelf denim trend of the early 2000s. "Premium denim didn't exist [prior]; we really launched this category," company president Suzanne Silverstein said on the Glossy Podcast. Twenty years after its founding, the company is now doing a bit more reacting to...
Acqua Di Parma’s Laura Burdese on the new definition of luxury Fragrance isn't what it used to be, according to Acqua Di Parma CEO Laura Burdese. "I don't wear a fragrance anymore to represent my personality to someone else," Burdese said on this week's episode of the Glossy Beauty Podcast. "I do it because of myself, because it's part of my...
Designer Daniella Kallmeyer: ‘You could become irrelevant’ if you don’t take a social stand It took a pandemic for Daniella Kallmeyer to put more of her own voice in the self-named fashion brand she started in 2012. "I'm being more vocal about my personal experience and my political views," Kallmeyer said on the Glossy Podcast. "I've given some really raw interviews over the past...
‘I can’t see what the antidote is’: Unfair Podcast, episode 4 In our final episode, Unfair considers the future of the skin lightening industry -- and if the criticism it has faced this past summer will or won't lead to systemic change among its biggest stakeholders.