Beauty’s 25 Most Innovative Execs

Beauty has always favored the bold, the people whose willingness to push past the status quo can pay off big time. Here, the people who point the way forward.

An insider’s primer on integrating a small company into a larger one—as seen by both entrepreneurial brand founders and the behemoths who bought them.

Here, WWD Beauty Inc looks at the leaders, by category, in the classic prestige channels versus the leaders in today’s expanded marketplace.

Ellen Thomas heads to SoHo’s bustling Broadway to find out who’s buying what—and why.

Alan Jope, Unilever’s president of personal care, took over leadership of the division in September 2014.

Susan Stone explores the German capital’s newest beauty breakthroughs in the edgy East and well-heeled West.

Marc Rey reflects on the North American beauty landscape as he assumes a leading role at Shiseido.

Battles with acne led former Wall Streeter Marisa Vara Arredondo to start Phace Bioactive, her new skin-care line.

Hollywood is in Billie Lourd’s DNA — mom is Carrie Fisher, grandma is Debbie Reynolds — but her role on FOX’s Scream Queens is the 23-year-old New York University grad’s first acting credit.

At the spring collections, the hair and makeup looks weren’t for the faint of heart.

After living for years next to the Moulin Rouge in Paris’ Montmartre, Vilhelm Parfumerie founder Jan Ahlgren is launching a scent inspired by his former neighborhood.

Oils are still red-hot—growing 22 percent in the prestige market according to The NPD Group. But are powders the next big thing?

A quick look at what makes Unilever’s Alan Jope tick.