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Firmenich hosted a mid-summer night reception on July 22 to celebrate summer Brazilian style. Cosmetic Executive Women On the terrace of the company’s (CEW) president Carlotta Jacobson Manhattan offices, beauty industry appeared on QVC last Tuesday evening to present a selection of Bond no. 9 To Launch Cooper, Washington CEW Beauty Award-winning CEW’s Carlotta Jacobson with QVC’s Allen Burke.
IFF’s Dong Creates Scent for Watermill Center
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Firmenich’s Westly Morris and Jerry Vittoria (r.) with Coty’s Les Smith.
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mark’s Gail Boyé and Claudia Poccia (r.) with M.A.C’s Jennifer Balbier and Firmenich’s Marc Salmon.
execs sipped caipirinhas and nibbled Brazilian-inspired hors d’oeuvres as they savored spectacular twilight views of the New York City skyline. -Photos on Page 176
Orlane paris develops overnight treatments
Niche fragrance marketer Bond No. 9 is This fall, Orlane Paris is clocking in for venturing downtown this fall with new the late shift. The ultra-luxurious French beauty creations inspired by two of Manhattan’s brand is unveiling three complementary I n t e r n a t i o n a l hottest ‘squares.’ skin care items specifically engineered to Flavors and reduce wrinkles during the skin’s maximal Fragrances (IFF) Bond No. 9 moment of regeneration—at nighttime. senior perfumer Washington Square Loc Dong has created a oneof-a-kind scent Extreme Anti-Wrinkle Regenerating Night Care to benefit The and Eye Contour. Watermill Center,
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ICMAD to Hold Young Designers Competition
Six highly-acclaimed schools of art and design will join in the 2010 Independent Cosmetic Bond No. 9 Cooper Square, a unisex Manufacturers & Distributors scent that tends masculine, will launch Association’s (ICMAD) Young in September, followed in November by -Continued on Page 178 Bond No. 9 Washington Square, a unisex-tending-feminine scent, whose 2011 FiFi Dates introduction coincides with the historic Announced The Fragrance Foundation has park’s reopening following an extensive announced dates and locations refurbishment. Bond’s founder and president, Laurice for the 2011 FiFi season. On April 8, the organization Rahmé, unveiled the launches at the -Continued on Page 178
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During the night, heat dispersion increases within the skin, Orlane said, which weakens its barrier function so that active ingredients can be more readily absorbed. Additionally, microcirculation peaks at 11:00 p.m. and cell -Continued on Page 177
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’Oréal USA’s Rodney Wong, a senior systems analyst, was bestowed the Above and Beyond Award from the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR)—a Department of Defense organization that promotes cooperation between reserve components and their employers. Mr. Wong received the honors on July 26 at L’Oréal USA’s New Jersey headquarters. He was nominated after having served L’Oréal USA’s Rodney Wong and Rich Scuteri. for one year with the New Jersey National Guard in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. During his time abroad, Mr. Wong also nominated his supervisor at the time, L’Oréal USA’s vice president of IT, Rich Scuteri, for the Patriot Award, which recognizes employer support of guard and reserve components.
Clairol Launches ‘Mirror Moments’ Campaign
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lairol Nice ‘n Easy spokeswoman Angela Kinsey—of NBC’s hit sitcom, The Office—recently surprised commuters in Grand Central Terminal, offering passersby advice on how to “make every mirror moment a good one.” These moments were caught on tape and then compiled Nice ‘n Easy spokeswoman Angela into a short online Kinsey of NBC’s The Office. video—and every time consumers visit the Clairol website and share the piece, the brand will donate $1.00 to Dress for Success Worldwide, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering women.
Alison Brod pr’s Fab Holiday Preview
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lison Brod PR’s ultrapink, candy-filled showroom space was whipped into a holiday whirlwind on July 20 and 21 for the company’s annual holiday press preview. While viewing forthcoming launches from L’Oréal Paris, Laura Mercier, Anthony Logistics for Men and more, editors were invited to decorate their own Godiva truffles, snack on Dippin’ Dots and Baked by Alison Brod Melissa cupcakes, receive makeup touchups from Stila celebrity artist Sarah Lucero and select presents from underneath a towering pink tinsel tree. “Our Holiday in July event—which ironically always falls on the hottest days of the year—is one of the best opportunities for us to spend time with the media,” Ms. Brod told Cosmetic World. “Beauty is always everyone’s favorite category because the brands really step up and do such creative things.” ■CW
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newly-opened Faustina restaurant within the Cooper Square Hotel— noting the neighborhood’s recent transformation from a casual student hangout to an increasingly sleek and luxurious hotspot. To capture its emerging status in fragrance form, Bond tapped Laurent Le Guernec of International Flavors and Fragrances (IFF) to formulate a warm and intense juice rich in spices and incense. Cooper Square’s top notes include cognac, a spice infusion and juniper berry; heart notes include lavender, myrrh, olibanum and patchouli; and base notes feature cashmere wood, musk, vetiver, ciste labdanum and timberwood.
Bond No. 9 Cooper Square
Taking its cue from the neighborhood’s stark and gleaming architecture, the towering, chrome-finished superstar flacon has been laser-etched with Bond’s signature New York City subway token logo in what the company describes as a “study in high-tech sparseness.” The eau de parfum is priced at $230.00 for 3.4 oz. and $170.00 for 1.7 oz. While Cooper Square marks Bond’s first overtly masculine-tending scent since Wall Street in 2004, Washington Square highlights a decidedly feminine rose note, aiming to capture the elegant yet iconoclastic park at dusk, said Ms. Rahmé—who noted that rose also happens to be New York’s state flower. To capture a simultaneous classicism and edge, Washington Square features Italian bergamot, geranium
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Maybelline New York Volum’ Express The Falsies Category: Color Launch: July 2010 Claims: New mascara that provides the bold and dramatic look of false lashes. Available in three washable and two waterproof shades. Key Ingredients: A spoonshaped brush and flexor wand deposit the ideal amount of product from corner to corner. Formula is enriched with pro-keratin to plump and fill in gaps. Stats: 0.25 oz., $7.77
Garnier Fructis Sleek & Shine Blow Dry Perfector 2-Step Smoothing Kit
Erno Laszlo Laszlo Blue Firmarine Lift Serum Category: Skin care Launch: September 2010 Claims: Luxurious, synergistic and ultraconcentrated serum that encourages cell renewal, optimizes firmness, locks in moisture and boosts the skin’s immunity. Key Ingredients: Spirulina maxima, lactic acid, vitamins A, C and E and organic green tea. Stats: 1 oz., $225.00
Caudalie Vinosource Quenching Sorbet Crème
Category: Hair care Launch: July 2010 Claims: A multifunctional, athome, two-step treatment that smoothes, de-frizzes and de-bulks for softer, shinier and more manageable hair. Key Ingredients: Cysteine loosens bonds that keep hair frizzy and rice oil seals in lasting smoothness. Stats: $11.99
Category: Body care Launch: September 2010 Claims: An intensely hydrating gel-cream moisturizer with an all-natural formula that’s ideal for sensitive skin. Key Ingredients: Grapeseed polyphenols, vinolevure, grape water, water-regulating complex, peptides and chamomile. Stats: 1.3 oz., $40.00
and tarragon on top; purple rose and honey in the heart; and amber, a leather accord, vetiver and musk in the base. The juice was also developed by Mr. Le Guernec. Customers have long been clamoring for a Washington Square scent, Ms. Rahmé said, and the park’s spirit of rebelliousness and traditional architecture marry well with Bond’s own multifaceted DNA. The surface of the Washington Square bottle features a photo-negative image of the park through its infamous arch—which was originally constructed
in 1889 by the architect Stanford White for the centennial of George Washington’s election. Rendered in muted blue and violet tones, the landscape is suggestive of daguerreotype imagery and was inspired by an antique postcard. Bond No. 9 Washington Square is priced at $230.00 for 3.4 oz., $150.00 for 1.7 oz. and $95.00 for a 0.2-oz. pocket spray. All Bond fragrances are available at the company’s four New York boutiques in addition to Saks Fifth Avenue, Harrods and online at bondno9.com. ■CW 175
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Parlux’s Kathleen Galvin with Westly Morris, Jennifer Balbier and Helmsley-Spear’s Jeffrey Tuller.
Firmenich’s Theo Spilka with Coty’s Ruth Sutcliffe and Victory International’s Anil Monga.
Gail Boyé and Claudia Poccia (2nd r.) with Firmenich’s Robbie Crowell, Jerry Vittoria and Lauren Reilly.
Firmenich’s Honorine Blanc and Birgit Benayoun Firmenich’s Joanne Halev and Frank Voelkl (2nd r.) Firmenich’s Richard Herpin and Westly Morris (2nd r.) with Ralph Lauren Fragrances’ Guillaume (2nd r.) with Coty’s Ana Palombo, Lorrie King with Arcade’s Diane Crecca and consultant de Lesquen and L’Oréal USA’s David Suffit. and Mark Zeh. Doreen Bollhofer.
Firmenich’s Joanne Halev and Dara Quinlan (r.) with The Art of Perfumery’s Ray Matts.
Victoria’s Secret Beauty’s Alison Aidlin with Sherry Baker, Ann Gottlieb of Ann Gottlieb Associates and Joanne Halev.
Firmenich’s Harry Frémont and Jerry Vittoria (r.) with Lorrie King.
Doreen Bollhofer with Fusion Brands’ Candace Marc Salmon (2nd r.) with Coty’s Lindsey Kopald, Kathleen Galvin (2nd r.) with Firmenich’s Arpi Buzantian, Honorine Blanc and Pierre Negrin. Patrice Weiman and Teri Siegel. Lazarus, Dana Kline and Annie Bystryn.
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Category: Fragrance Launch: August 2010 Claims: A richer interpretation of the Daisy eau de toilette in a red lacquer bottle that was inspired by Mr. Jacobs’ love of art. Key Ingredients: Wild strawberry, violet petals, gardenia, jasmine and the white wood accords of birch and cedarwood. Stats: 3.4 oz., $88.00
NVEY ECO ECO Friendly Makeup Brushes
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Diptyque Roll On Colognes Category: Fragrance Launch: July 2010 Claims: The first time that Diptyque has repackaged its four-piece cologne collection in roll-on form with an exclusive gel formula. Housed in a drawn glass bottle, decorated with satin black screen-printing. Stats: 0.7 oz., $48.00 (each) august 2, 2010
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regeneration reaches an apex at jar, is priced at $300.00 for 1.7 oz., approximately 1:00 a.m., according and professes to soften wrinkles and to chronobiology research conducted smooth the skin’s surface for a more by Orlane. radiant appearance. Extreme AntiHowever, after the age of 40, the Wrinkle Regenerating Night Eye skin’s biorhythms tend to become Contour, $150.00 for 0.5 oz., deconunsynchronized—and so the gests and drains the undereye company has formulated its area in addition to combating first-ever Extreme Anti-Wrinkle wrinkles. Rounding out the Regenerating Night Program collection is an Extreme Antito bolster the process. Wrinkle Regenerating Night The three-sku collection Serum, priced at $325.00 for comprises a night cream and an 1.0 oz., which provides an eye cream, which are available intense dose of energy to jumpnow, in addition to a forthcomstart the reparative process. ing serum in September. Orlane The line’s key ingredient is products are sold at Neiman a sirt complex, composed of Marcus, Bloomingdale’s and rice and soy extracts to stimuSaks Fifth Avenue. late sirtuins—the skin’s lon“At night, the skin employs g e v i t y p r o t e i n s , wh i ch different processes than it enhance cell and DNA repair. does during the day,” said Additionally, a dermo-repair Denise Gorant, national train- Extreme Anti- system contains chufa extract er for Orlane Paris. “Unlike to protect oxytalan fibers, Wrinkle Regenerating our other anti-aging lines, the which are responsible for the Night Serum Extreme Night Regenerating skin’s elasticity. regimen was developed to work with Other key components include: and complement the cellular regen- calmo repair, a neuromodulating eration and repair that the skin peptide that diminishes skin stress; undergoes at night.” B21 complex to balance moisture Extreme Anti-Wrinke Regenerating loss; and caffeine and escin to stimulate ■CW Night Care, house in a frosted blue blood and lymph circulation.
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Retail Sales: june 2010 vs. 2009 Select Specialty Stores (in $ millions) Limited Brands Neiman Marcus Nordstrom Saks Inc.
June 2010 $965.4 $333.0 $822.0 $237.9
% Change 8.3% 3.0% 19.8% 3.4%
Same-Store Sales % 6.0% 1.9% 14.1% 2.5%
% Change 1.2% 2.0%
Same-Store Sales % 1.4% 2.0%
June 2010 $1,605.0 $1,555.0 $2,000.0
% Change 9.1% 3.7% 7.0%
Same-Store Sales % 5.9% 4.5% 3.0%
June 2010 $7,330.0 $5,918.0
% Change 7.0% 4.0%
Same-Store Sales % 4.0% 1.7%
% Change (3.3%) 8.4%
Same-Store Sales % (2.5%) 2.0%
General Department Stores Bon-Ton Dillard’s QVC’s Lisa Mason with Carlotta Jacobson on-air.
products. From skin care to hair care to color, featured brands included ColorMetrics, Guerlain, Living Proof and Shiseido.
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an organization that fosters research in theater and various types of performance art. 100 bottles were auctioned off at the organization’s 17th Annual Summer Benefit on July 24, in addition to 10 additional bottles that were designed by Watermill founder Robert Wilson and several of the organization’s resident artists. Mr. Dong’s scent features ambrette seeds, cashmeran, blood rose and kaffir lime leaves—and was diffused throughout the event via a system by Prolitec Inc.
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Designers Competition. Created in 1999, the competition showcases the extraordinary talents of package design students. The schools participating in this year’s program are: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; The American Academy of Art, Chicago, IL; Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, Los Angeles, CA; Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY; Miami International University of Art & Design, Miami, FL; and The Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA. 178
June 2010 $244.4 $506.4
Popular Department Stores Kohl’s JC Penney TJX Companies
Mass Retailers Costco Target
Chain Drug Store Retailers Rite Aid Walgreens
June 2010 $1,908.0 $5,670.0
All told, three students from the aforementioned institutions will be recognized for their design achievements with a first prize of $2,500, second prize of $1,500 and third prize of $1,000.
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will host its annual Finalists Breakfast at the Mandarin Oriental, with the FiFi Awards following on May 25 at 6:00 p.m. at New York’s Downtown Armory.
Michelle Williams Group Expands
The Michelle Williams Group LLC will extend its expertise in beauty and cosmetics with the addition of a new sales and marketing agency. The agency will provide expertise in brand launches, building brand identities, strategic business expansion, financial sales plans, product development, product training and PR. A new team will guide this effort
under Ms. Williams’ leadership, including: Kipp Acton, vice president of sales, east coast; Alphonse Wiebelt, vice president of sales, west coast; Michael Alaniz, vice president, spa industry; Mary Englander, director of operations; and Sandra Lang, director, marketing services.
Neil Morris Fragrances Appoints Cutler
The Boston-based niche scent company Neil Morris Fragrances has named beauty industry veteran Michael Cutler its national director of Michael Cutler sales, fashion group. In addition to overseeing the company’s U.S. distribution, he will play a key role in marketing and product development. Previously, Mr. Cutler held positions at Germain Parfums, Escada Beaute, and Parfums Givenchy. august 2, 2010
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