Coty has a plan to reduce debt to around $5 billion next year.

Sephora will significantly increase its off-mall penetration by teaming up with Kohl’s, and is phasing out its partnership with J.C. Penney.

“We need to make a clean grooming movement,” said Every Man Jack ceo Ritch Viola.

Merit Beauty will launch as a minimalist makeup brand with seven products, all of which are “clean.”

The Zara Emotions Collection by Jo Loves, with fragrances, candles and paintbrushes, will land on Dec. 1.

The Puig-owned niche fragrance brand just reopened its new flagship on Paris’ Rue Saint-Honoré.

The makeup artist is introducing her eponymous makeup line with two debut products.

Two young female influencers will co-create an island in the social simulation game starting Dec. 7 to help promote the launch of the Escada Love Candy scent.

The Los Angeles-based company makes vitamins and supplements for children and adults.

Index Ventures and Toba Capital led the Series B investment.

For the prestige beauty industry to end the year on par with last year, it would need to do $9 billion more in sales before yearend, according to NPD.

Alexis Perakis-Valat, president of the division, spoke about strategy.

Eyecue’s report disproves the thinking that posts featuring darker skin tones don’t perform well.

GoGo Skincare launches today.

The brand has pivoted from an industry-insider event at The Pierre Hotel to a documentary-style program airing the night before Thanksgiving.

“I always felt that I could do anything. I remember all of these experiences along the way that I had — nothing discouraged me.”

A Live Shopping test event led to an increase in online sales in August, according to Givenchy Beauty.

The deal is expected to bolster Symrise’s portfolio of natural, renewable fragrance ingredients and further expand its geographic reach.

“I went home to take a long, long nap.”

“Wellness has been incorporated into everything,” says The Detox Market’s director of brand partnerships, Elena Severin.

This year has been ripe with beauty IPO activity, but has also seen its share of meaningful acquisitions.

Access to capital, especially for female founders of color, remains a challenge.

The key financial players in the beauty sphere.

“Any time there’s change in the market and change in consumer behavior, it drives M&A. These are not temporary shifts, they are permanent shifts.”

In the third quarter, prestige beauty sales declined 23 percent in the country’s 10 biggest cities, versus an 11 percent dip elsewhere.

Walcott was instrumental in the success of Fenty Beauty, as well as other Kendo-created lines.

The limited-edition candle is priced at $39 and sold exclusively at Space at Nordstrom.

The designer will roll out a travel-size collection, followed by full-size bottles next year.

Called Chaul, the three-product skin-care range entered South Korea before being rolled out elsewhere in the region.

Under terms of the deal, Iberchem is valued at 820 million euros.

Bad Habit by Forma Brands launches with 10 sku’s aimed at relieving stressed-out skin.

The program, in its 17th year, is giving five female scientists research grants of $60,000.

The several-day virtual event named Awards winners in 48 categories.

The actress is also joining the brand as a co-creative director.

Huda was followed by Kylie Cosmetics, MAC Cosmetics, Anastasia Beverley Hills and NYX Professional Makeup

Harf increased his personal stake in the beauty business.

Industry sources estimate the brand could do more than $10 million in retail sales next year.

These brands are the forward-thinking picks of WWD’s beauty editors.

The scent is available now.

Data from Trendalytics shows good skin staying “in,” with viral looks like the Evil Eye nail polish at Giambattista Valli gaining traction.

The partnership comes at a time of expansion for the skin-care brand.

Ahead of the launch of Christian Dior Parfums’ latest book, “Dior in Bloom,” director of brand identity and culture Frederic Bourdelier recounts the famed couturier’s lifelong relationship with flowers.

The beauty industry is beginning to grapple with the wasteful nature of one of a popular category.

These include an app for women of color to book at-home hairstylists; a refillable, natural cosmetics brand, and a software company focused on beauty services.

The scent is the first to be launched under the brand’s license with Inter Parfums.

The multihyphenate is the face of Kate Spade’s new signature fragrance, due out starting Nov. 15 online at Ulta.

The scents will be available on Nov. 17.

Previously held by Coty, the license will now be held by Edge Beauty, which is already eyeing other categories in beauty for Stetson.

Ben Bennett’s The Center has acquired Make Beauty, and tapped Violet Grey alum Carrie Barber to lead the revamp.