Categories: Fashion
The New York Times reports on the launch of Glam.com, a new fashion portal which seeks to simplify online shopping and track user preferences through quizzes (co-founder Samir Arora was chairman of Tickle, known for its pop-up quizzes) and enables sharing style matches and quiz results with other users.
To take advantage of Glam.com's features, you need to register. The Style Page had to make several attempts before it successfully registed.
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Calvin Klein to launch a new cosmetics line - in 2007!
Categories: Beauty, Cosmetics
It was a disappointment for me when Calvin Klein Cosmetics were discontinued a couple of years ago. In a market awash with glittery glosses and wild colors addressed to teens, it was refreshing to have a cosmetics line geared toward women.
Unilever, the Dutch consumer goods conglomerate, distributed Calvin Klein Cosmetics, and I called Unilever consumer relations to verify that they had discontinued the line, in response to an email from a reader of The Style Page. Unilever has since sold its fragrance business to Coty.
Now comes news from Cosmeticsdesign.com that Calvin Klein is partnering with Markwins International, best known for its Color Workshop palettes, to launch a new cosmetics line, but we'll have to wait until spring 2007. Sigh!
It was a disappointment for me when Calvin Klein Cosmetics were discontinued a couple of years ago. In a market awash with glittery glosses and wild colors addressed to teens, it was refreshing to have a cosmetics line geared toward women.
Unilever, the Dutch consumer goods conglomerate, distributed Calvin Klein Cosmetics, and I called Unilever consumer relations to verify that they had discontinued the line, in response to an email from a reader of The Style Page. Unilever has since sold its fragrance business to Coty.
Now comes news from Cosmeticsdesign.com that Calvin Klein is partnering with Markwins International, best known for its Color Workshop palettes, to launch a new cosmetics line, but we'll have to wait until spring 2007. Sigh!
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Canadian Beauty
It's been nearly 15 years since Toronto-based MAC revolutionized the cosmetics industry with its neutral foundations, ultra-matte lipsticks, and its wide variety of shades for lips, cheeks, and eyes. Largely through buzz generated by beauty editors (and not through advertising), its products became in demand. The Estee Lauder Companies bought out MAC, and MAC has since become widely available in department stores and MAC mall stores throughout the U.S.
CARGO is another Canadian cosmetics company that found success in the U.S., largely through its distribution by Sephora.com
. The Style Page especially likes CARGO'S selection of eyeshadows (its litmus test for a cosmetics line).The Style Page recently came back from a trip to Canada, and would like to report on Canadian products that are not widely available in the U.S., at least not yet.
Two major Canadian pharmacy chains offer their exclusive lines of cosmetics: Shoppers Drug Mart (called Pharmaprix in Quebec) offers its own Quo cosmetics line, while Pharmacie Jean Coutu offers the Personnelle and Garraud Paris cosmetics lines. Pharmacie Jean Coutu has penetrated the U.S. market through its acquisition of over 1500 Eckerd drugstores from JC Penney, but there's no word of its exporting Personnelle and Garraud Paris to its Eckerd stores, which will retain the Eckerd banner (CVS purchased over 1200 Eckerd stores from JC Penney).
Marcelle is a mass market comsetics brand, available at both Pharmacie Jean Coutu and Shoppers Drug Mart. The Style Page picked up Marcelle's Soothing Eye Make-Up Remover Gel, which, despite the name, stung on contact. If the sting could be removed from this product, this would be a great product and much more convenient for travel than liquid eye makeup remover (The Style Page had the misfortune of having liquid eye makeup remover leak and stain her packed clothes). Groupe Marcelle purchased the Annabelle cosmetics line, which is also available through pharmacies.
Lise Watier is a Montreal-based makeup artist whose eponymous line is available both in department stores and drugstores. The Style Page picked up an eyeshadow single in Halo Mat, a light yellow, which brightens the eyes. In the U.S., her Neiges (Snow) fragrances may be purchased through Sephora.com
.Nacara is a cosmetics line from Montreal geared towards "women of color." It features highly-pigmented lipsticks and cream-to-powder makeup. The Style Page found Nacara at Pharmacie Jean Coutu
Dans un Jardin is a chain of perfumeries in Quebec and Ontario. The stores offers bath and body products and home fragrances under Dans un Jardin's own label, its own e&n (essence & nature) color cosmetics line, Decleor skin scare, and a wide variety of Lampe Berger fragrance-diffusing oil-burning lamps and parfums de maison (home fragrance) oils.
Fruits & Passion is another chain of perfumeries, with boutiques across Canada and in several foreign countries (but not, alas, the U.S.). In the U.S., Nordstrom sells some of its Cucina (kitchen) line of products in the beauty department. Fruits & Passion boutiques carry bath and body products, home fragrances, environmentally safe cleaning and laundry products, and even food products. The Style Page picked up maple jelly (how quintessentially Canadian!) with orange peel from Fruits & Passion's L'Art de la table collection.
The Style Page especially welcomes comments from its Canadian readers on Canadian beauty products.
Friday, September 09, 2005
Fall 2005 Fashion Trends from About Fashion
Categories: Fashion
Fall '05 Fashion Trends from fashion.about.com: Black, Romance, Volume.
The "black is back" hype indicates one of the reasons that many women are ignoring fashion magazines: for them, black never went away and it's the fashion magazines that tried to sell them on color.
Speaking of black, I'd like to volunteer some advice about mixing colors with black. Although the Books by Trinny and Susannah
of BBC's What Not to Wear have had mixed reviews, I do agree with their advice that combining colors with black generally cheapens the color. Softer (less saturated) or lighter (higher value) shades of blue, pink, and lilac are more flattered by dark browns or charcoal than by black. You can also strive for a color scheme in variations of a single hue (also referred to as a "tonal color scheme").
Although directed to quilters, the Color Workshop from QuiltWoman.Com provides information about color, hue, value, and saturation.
Fall '05 Fashion Trends from fashion.about.com: Black, Romance, Volume.
The "black is back" hype indicates one of the reasons that many women are ignoring fashion magazines: for them, black never went away and it's the fashion magazines that tried to sell them on color.
Speaking of black, I'd like to volunteer some advice about mixing colors with black. Although the Books by Trinny and Susannah
of BBC's What Not to Wear have had mixed reviews, I do agree with their advice that combining colors with black generally cheapens the color. Softer (less saturated) or lighter (higher value) shades of blue, pink, and lilac are more flattered by dark browns or charcoal than by black. You can also strive for a color scheme in variations of a single hue (also referred to as a "tonal color scheme").Although directed to quilters, the Color Workshop from QuiltWoman.Com provides information about color, hue, value, and saturation.
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Who's Afraid of Minimalism? - New York Times
Categories: Fashion
You could have fooled me that minimalism is back in fashion.
Be sure to scroll down to "Multimedia" and check out the narrated audio slide show!
You could have fooled me that minimalism is back in fashion.
Be sure to scroll down to "Multimedia" and check out the narrated audio slide show!
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Great sources for fashion styling
Categories: Fashion
I've hesitated to editorialize about fashion because fashion is personal. Moreover, I'm on the other side of 40 and don't shop the trends.
Styling is key. If you want to shop the trends and wear them right, there are a few resouces that I recommend, some obvious and others that might surprise you (they surprised me).
Lucky is the best source for styling and deconstructing whole outfits.
While InStyle focuses on celebrity fashion, its Great at Any Age feature provides advice on how to wear a look in your 20s, 30s, and 40s. The looks created for women who are older than your age group won't look frumpy.
I've noted that the Wall Street Journal has expanded its lifestyle coverage to the point of launching a weekend edition and even a Wall Street Journal Weekend TV show on the Fine Living TV network. WSJ articles summarize the trends and how to wear them, analyze the market, and feature the expert views of people in the fashion industry about the durability of trends.
Another surprising source for styling is the fall Newport News catalogue. I had long thought that the Newport News catalogue was tawdry, but I am impressed how it's been redesigned as a "magalog" (magazine+catalog) featuring fashion trend reports, styling tips, and different color stories.
You'll find sites that link to Lucky, InStyle, The Wall Street Journal, and Newport News through a search of The Style Page. We have also added new content to our Fashion pages - don't forget to update your bookmarks!
I've hesitated to editorialize about fashion because fashion is personal. Moreover, I'm on the other side of 40 and don't shop the trends.
Styling is key. If you want to shop the trends and wear them right, there are a few resouces that I recommend, some obvious and others that might surprise you (they surprised me).
Lucky
is the best source for styling and deconstructing whole outfits. While InStyle
focuses on celebrity fashion, its Great at Any Age feature provides advice on how to wear a look in your 20s, 30s, and 40s. The looks created for women who are older than your age group won't look frumpy.I've noted that the Wall Street Journal has expanded its lifestyle coverage to the point of launching a weekend edition and even a Wall Street Journal Weekend TV show on the Fine Living TV network. WSJ articles summarize the trends and how to wear them, analyze the market, and feature the expert views of people in the fashion industry about the durability of trends.
Another surprising source for styling is the fall Newport News catalogue. I had long thought that the Newport News catalogue was tawdry, but I am impressed how it's been redesigned as a "magalog" (magazine+catalog) featuring fashion trend reports, styling tips, and different color stories.
You'll find sites that link to Lucky, InStyle, The Wall Street Journal, and Newport News through a search of The Style Page. We have also added new content to our Fashion pages - don't forget to update your bookmarks!
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
The Style Page updates its Beauty Pages
Categories: Beauty
Check out nearly 30 new links for Cosmetics and 15 new links for Fragrances and shop our partners: Amazon.com, Beauty.com
, drugstore.com
, and Sephora.com.
Check out nearly 30 new links for Cosmetics and 15 new links for Fragrances and shop our partners: Amazon.com
, Beauty.com, drugstore.com, and Sephora.com.
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Exclusive discount from the Soap Box Company
Categories: Beauty, Fragrance, Promotion
The Soap Box Company is offering a 20% discount off the entire purchase for total purchases of $15.00 or more. This is an exclusive offer for readers of The Style Page.
The Soap Box Company offers natural, organic, handmade bath products from several indie brands. Select bath products from boutique brands including Bath Essence, Bella Lucce, Crazy Rumors, Just Soap, Khushi, Little Twig, MadGabs, Pompeii Street Soap Co., Sweet Petula, Whimsy, and WoodSprite.
To take advantage of this offer, enter "thestylepage20" in the promotion code box. This offer is good between August 1 and September 30, 2005.
The Soap Box Company is now listed on the Shopping page of The Style Page.
The Soap Box Company is offering a 20% discount off the entire purchase for total purchases of $15.00 or more. This is an exclusive offer for readers of The Style Page.
The Soap Box Company offers natural, organic, handmade bath products from several indie brands. Select bath products from boutique brands including Bath Essence, Bella Lucce, Crazy Rumors, Just Soap, Khushi, Little Twig, MadGabs, Pompeii Street Soap Co., Sweet Petula, Whimsy, and WoodSprite.
To take advantage of this offer, enter "thestylepage20" in the promotion code box. This offer is good between August 1 and September 30, 2005.
The Soap Box Company is now listed on the Shopping page of The Style Page.
Monday, August 01, 2005
August 1, 2005: What's New in Beauty
Categories: Beauty, Cosmetics, Fragrance
Crabtree wins Hilton toiletries contract - Crabtree & Evelyn wins contract to supply Hilton Hotels with La Source spa products. The collection will include shampoo, conditioner, body wash, body lotion, mouthwash, shower cap, sewing kit, vanity kit, aqua brush with pumice, shoe mitt and shoe horn.
Elle McPherson to launch New Cosmetics Line - the Australian model will launch a line of cosmetics to be called "The Body" after her nickname.
Estee Lauder mulls YSL buy - Estee Lauder is contemplating the purchase of YSL Beauty from France's Pinault Printemps Redoute retail group (PPR owns La Redoute and the Printemps department store in Paris).
Japan's KAO to buy Molton Brown - Japan's top household products maker is buying British luxury consumer products maker Molton Brown. Molton Brown's products include bath, body, skin and hair care products, and cosmetics.
Gap to re-launch personal care range - Gap will work with Inter Parfums to relaunch its fragrance and personal care products. Inter Parfums markets a number of prestige fragrance and Diane von Furstenburg Beauty in addition to Aziza II and Intimate mass-market brands of cosmetics.
New Cosmetics Stores Open in the U.S. - Sweden's Make Up Store opens in Miami, while Korea's Missha opens in New York City.
Crabtree wins Hilton toiletries contract - Crabtree & Evelyn wins contract to supply Hilton Hotels with La Source spa products. The collection will include shampoo, conditioner, body wash, body lotion, mouthwash, shower cap, sewing kit, vanity kit, aqua brush with pumice, shoe mitt and shoe horn.
Elle McPherson to launch New Cosmetics Line - the Australian model will launch a line of cosmetics to be called "The Body" after her nickname.
Estee Lauder mulls YSL buy - Estee Lauder is contemplating the purchase of YSL Beauty from France's Pinault Printemps Redoute retail group (PPR owns La Redoute and the Printemps department store in Paris).
Japan's KAO to buy Molton Brown - Japan's top household products maker is buying British luxury consumer products maker Molton Brown. Molton Brown's products include bath, body, skin and hair care products, and cosmetics.
Gap to re-launch personal care range - Gap will work with Inter Parfums to relaunch its fragrance and personal care products. Inter Parfums markets a number of prestige fragrance and Diane von Furstenburg Beauty in addition to Aziza II and Intimate mass-market brands of cosmetics.
New Cosmetics Stores Open in the U.S. - Sweden's Make Up Store opens in Miami, while Korea's Missha opens in New York City.
Monday, July 25, 2005
Bookstand pages now updated
Categories: Bookstand, Books, Media, Stationery
I'm back from vacation, and have updated the Bookstand pages. Check out the many new links for Books, Media, and Stationery. Notable sites include the Complete Review (for books) and ZOOZOOM "the original online glossy," both of which were selected for Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites for 2005. Also of interest is ConnectViaBooks, a website that enables readers to find other readers who share their particular interests.
I'm back from vacation, and have updated the Bookstand pages. Check out the many new links for Books, Media, and Stationery. Notable sites include the Complete Review (for books) and ZOOZOOM "the original online glossy," both of which were selected for Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites for 2005. Also of interest is ConnectViaBooks, a website that enables readers to find other readers who share their particular interests.
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