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Big Ideas

NRF 2025: The Rise of Modular Retail

Sephora is leading a new wave of modular retail, transforming stores into flexible, ever-changing spaces designed to evolve with consumer trends an...

Big Ideas

Three Key Takeaways From NRF 2025: Retail’s Big Show

Retail leaders unpacked the next wave of consumer behaviour, brand building and ownership models during NRF 2025: Retail’s Big Show. Here’s everyth...

Retail : Fashion : Global Events

News

Sephora explores the intersection of beauty and music with Faces of Music docuseries

Sephora has teamed up with Digitas Pictures and Imagine Documentaries to produce Faces of Music, a new Hulu docuseries highlighting the connection ...

Beauty : Music : Media

Micro Trends

K-beauty Lite

K-beauty retailers are transforming from importers of goods to skincare brands in their own right, with private-label launches inspired by K-beauty...

Beauty : Youth : Retail

News

Controlling a film with your mind, Equinox launches sleep coaching

The MOMENT is an interactive film responding to brain activity, Equinox wants to train gym-goers to sleep better, Sephora launches free beauty clas...

Technology : Wellness : Beauty

News

Honouring individuality and crafted coffee delivered to your door

Missguided embraces skin conditions, Trade delivers roasted coffee to at-home drinkers, Sephora regulates clean beauty.

Beauty : Drinks : Travel

Big Ideas

Brand Innovation Debrief: Sephora

With the opening of its largest flagship store in Manhattan in 2017 and a host of new initiatives, Sephora shows how to get beauty retail right.

Beauty : Retail : Youth

Micro Trends

Augmented Retail

As augmented and virtual reality continues to grow towards an expected market value of £80.3bn ($108bn, €91.3bn) by 2021, brands are using the tec...

Retail : Digital : Fashion

Big Ideas

How brands should use chatbots

From acting as virtual employees to creating more meaningful relationships with consumers, chatbots are opening up new opportunities for brands.

Retail : Digital : Technology

Big Ideas

Sephora moves to sell crowdsourced beauty products

Global – The beauty retailer will stock five of collaborative beauty brand Volition’s best-selling products.

Beauty : Digital : Retail

Big Ideas

Future faces

Toronto – ModiFace has launched a new tool that combines live streaming with augmented reality.

ModiFace : AR : Live-streaming

Big Ideas

Booming beauty

Global – Despite falling sales in department stores, beauty retail is thriving.

Sephora : Beauty : The Learning Economy

Macro Trends

Neo-kinship

As the nuclear family disappears and more fluid and complex forms of kinship take its place, technology is not only helping to run the househol...

Neo-kinship : Artificial Intelligence : Family

Markets

Teen Beauty Market

Tired of relentlessly chasing perfection, members of Generation D are changing their expectations of what beauty can and should deliver.

Gender Neutral : Teen : Gen Z

News

Pinterest products

Global – Burberry is extending its reach beyond the luxury market by introducing its latest beauty product on Pinterest.

Burberry Cat Lashes Mascara : Social Commerce Insight : Burberry

Markets

Global Beauty Market 2016: Part 1

We examine the changing face of the global beauty market and the rapid rise of exciting new trends in the industry, from Social Power to Phygital S...

Instagram : Skincare : 3ina

Markets

Festival Market

Traditional music-focused festivals, dominated by Millennials, are now exploring new formats and content to connect more deeply with consumers.

Conviviality Culture : Festival : Branding

Communities

Beauty Mavericks

The Beauty Mavericks have gone their own way, creating their own products and services to cater for their specific beauty needs.

Inclusive Beauty : Neutral Culture : Curl Power

Design Directions

The Estée Edit

Estée Lauder aims to attract a younger market with its new social media-inspired beauty range.

Estée Lauder : Sephora : Skincare

Big Ideas

Specialist takeover

Stamford, US – A new report by Consumer Edge Research shows that traditional beauty retailers are losing market share to specialist chains and e-co...

Speciality Retail : Sephora : Ulta

Big Ideas

Millennial make-up

New York – Estée Lauder is setting its sights on Millennials and teenagers with its beauty line The Estée Edit.

Estée Lauder : Skincare : Make-up

News

Connected store

Paris – Sephora has opened its first Flash store, a smaller, connected format designed to complement the mobile shopping experience.

Sephora : Omnichannel : Click And Collect

News

Preview: Curl Power

US/Europe – Natural curls are being embraced on the catwalks and in stores.

Inclusive Beauty : Curly Hair : Sephora

Micro Trends

Curl Power

Curls are fast becoming a big focus for the beauty industry as brands increase their range of products for curly hair across the market and show ...

Curls : Inclusive Beauty Market : L'Oréal

News

Contour control

New York – Beauty retailer Sephora has launched a new augmented reality tutorial app to teach customers how to contour correctly.

Contouring : Augmented Reality : App