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Rachel Strugatz

Rachel Strugatz

Contributing Beauty Correspondent / Freelance Writer at Business Of Fashion - New York Bureau

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  • English
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  • Beauty
  • Apparel

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Recent Articles

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Gen-Z and Gen Alpha's Beauty Behaviours Are Not Trends - The Business of Fashion

As both generations mature, it’s time to start recognising they are more like Millennials and Gen-Xers than we initially assumed.
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The Thinking Behind Beauty's Latest M&A Wave - The Business of Fashion

With a limited number of targets on the market, strategics and private equity firms are rushing to snap up the most promising brands.
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Lip Gloss Is Beauty's Secret to Sales and Sex - The Business of Fas...

Recalling the appeal of Lip Smackers balms and Lancôme’s Juicy Tubes, skincare brands like Rhode, Summer Fridays and UBeauty have the lip category cornered.
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For Celebrity Beauty Brands, a Cloudy Future

E.l.f.’s $355 million acquisition of Naturium doesn’t change the fact that most influencer, actor and musician-fronted brands need to radically rethink their approach.
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Can Gen-Z Save Marc Jacobs Again? - The Business of Fashion

Heaven, the designer label’s lower priced diffusion line that leans on nostalgia, has been a hit with younger shoppers. The Coty-led revamped cosmetics line should follow its lead.
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What Investors Are Looking for in a Beauty Start-Up

Private equity shops and venture capitalists are being more discerning with their dollars, and yet capital is still critical for emerging brands seeking to stand out in a competitive landscape.
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What is the Next Great Luxury Beauty Brand? - The Business of Fashion

After a series of multi-billion dollar M&A deals, global beauty giants are taking an alternative route: reviving sleeper labels at the top end of the market.
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Chanel, Timothée Chalamet and the Changing Idea of Masculinity

The luxury brand is the latest to put a hot young star at the forefront of its advertising efforts, but what’s most compelling is what the partnership says about male celebrity today.
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Beauty’s “Ageing” Rebrand That Never Was

Euphemisms like “pro-ageing” and “anti-anti-ageing” exist to obscure the fact that the beauty industry is selling the same creams and tonics meant to enhance one’s appearance. It may be time for a new approach.
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Hyram Yarbro and Addison Rae Didn't Need Beauty Brands - The Busine...

Hyram Yarbro and Addison Rae are the latest content creators-turned-founders to discover online fame alone doesn’t translate into beauty sales.
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Why a Gen-Z Beauty Brand Is Selling Anti-Aging Products

Skin and hair care line SpoiledChild, which shares a parent company with Il Makiage, has the look of a brand targeting teens but a price point and products that seem intended for an older audience. Is it possible to straddle both worlds?
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Why Estée Lauder Bought Tom Ford | BoF - The Business of Fashion

The designer’s makeup and fragrance line brought glamour, sex appeal – and sales – to the cosmetics giant. Keeping the magic in house was worth nearly $3 billion.
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How Morphe Bet Big on the Power of Celebrity Beauty – And Lost

The cosmetic brand’s parent company is facing an uncertain future after a series of troubled attempts to launch new makeup and skin care lines around influencers and pop stars.
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What’s Going On at Into the Gloss?

Into the Gloss, the pioneering beauty website created by Emily Weiss in 2011, hasn’t been updated since June.
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Why the Met Gala Probably Won’t Kick Off Many Beauty Trends This Year

With viewers preoccupied by real-world events, even Kim Kardashian’s platinum blonde hair can’t provide an escape.
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Can Gucci Westman Build the Next Great Luxury Beauty Brand?

The makeup artist’s four-year-old brand, Westman Atelier, is finding an audience alongside much larger competitors in the high-end colour space by appealing to a customer willing to invest in pricier cosmetics.
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What Makes a Luxury Beauty Brand?

New beauty lines gravitate toward “affordable” or “luxury” branding, but often get stuck somewhere in between. Finding a way out of the mushy middle requires a unique product and attention to detail.
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How Glossier Lost Its Grip | BoF - The Business of Fashion

The direct-to-consumer pioneer, which popularised millennial pink and dewy skin, can’t keep up with an evolving beauty industry, customer and retail landscape.
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The Face Changing TikTok Skin Care

Charlotte Palermino, a leading ‘skinfluencer’ and co-founder of decidedly not clean skin care brand Dieux, is using her platform to shift the conversation around “clean beauty.”
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What’s Next for Beauty Investors

A return to pre-pandemic beauty habits means people are heading back to stores to shop for skin care and makeup — and investors are rethinking where they’re putting their cash.
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Botox Beauty Bars Are Seeing a Zoom Boom

After years of steady growth, medical spas such as Ject, Ever/Body and Alchemy 43, which claim to democratise cosmetic treatments like Botox, are seeing an explosion of interest.