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The ultimate fashion industry bible, offering incisive reportage on all aspects of the business and its biggest players. Anchored by preeminent fashion journalist Lauren Sherman, Line Sheet also features veteran reporter Rachel Strugatz, who delivers unparalleled intel on what’s happening in the beauty industry, and Sarah Shapiro, a longtime retail strategist who writes about e-commerce, brick-and-mortar, D.T.C., and more.
THE LATEST ARTICLES
Rachel Strugatz
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November 21, 2024
Ordinary People
Deciem—and particularly its top brand, The Ordinary—was never a cookie-cutter Lauder business. Now, Nicola Kilner, the C.E.O. credited with holding it all together, is departing, and the company is feeling the growing pains.
Rachel Strugatz
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November 13, 2024
The Lauder Blood Sacrifice
After being passed over for the C.E.O. job, and as she exits her family’s storied beauty company, Jane Lauder took a sharpened eyeliner pencil to her cousin William in a leaked letter calling for his ouster from the board. Is this a petty family skirmish, an overdue governance change, or the first salvo in a new era at the historic beauty company?
Rachel Strugatz & Lauren Sherman
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November 6, 2024
Beyond Goop and Evil
Gwyneth’s eternally unprofitable startup is facing yet another crisis, with a flailing beauty brand, a third round of layoffs, and a founder who’s realizing the limits of building a brand around her own personality. Will Goop ever locate an exit?
Rachel Strugatz
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October 30, 2024
The Last Lauder
Jane, an ELC exec and a runner-up to replace departing C.E.O. Fabrizio Freda, has announced she’s stepping back from the company her grandmother built, along with her cousin William Lauder. How will this notably un-familial succession drama, and the new reign of Stéphane de La Faverie, scramble the company the Lauders are leaving?
Rachel Strugatz
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October 23, 2024
Gwyneth’s Beauty Makeover
Despite recent layoffs, Gwyneth has found her groove in the food business and gotten serious (no more vagina candles) about her beauty brand. But can her wry, in-on-the-joke WASP aesthetic and celebrity icon status overcome C-suite troubles and find her an exit?
Rachel Strugatz
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October 16, 2024
Glossier & Found
Rêve and Doux, the company’s new fragrances, had a buoyant debut. But will they offer the sort of sustained success required to create a scent portfolio and offer Emily Weiss (and Kirsten Green… and Josh Kushner…) that long-awaited exit?
Rachel Strugatz
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October 9, 2024
And the Next C.E.O. of Estée Lauder Is…
There were apparently five contenders in the mix to succeed Fabrizio Freda as the next C.E.O. of The Estée Lauder Companies—including Jane, an heir to the Lauder fortune. But sources with close ties to the family and leadership team say another executive has the inside track, and might even be a shoo-in.
Rachel Strugatz
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October 2, 2024
Balmain Drain
Estée Lauder’s latest stab at innovation is Balmain Beauty, a new partnership that attempts to revive a legacy brand and has debuted with an exceedingly large portfolio of products. Could it work? Well, it’s not Cartier, but it kinda has to.
Rachel Strugatz
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September 25, 2024
Blake It Till You Make It
News and notes on Blake Brown Beauty, Blake Lively’s new haircare baby—the hot launch, sure, but also the brutal hangover… and other related headaches.
Rachel Strugatz
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September 18, 2024
Glossier in Translation
Emily Weiss’s $2 billion beauty brand is launching not one but two new perfumes this autumn, perhaps hoping that another dose of lightning in the bottle could seduce that long-awaited deep-pocketed suitor.
