As of last Friday, Brandon Truaxe, the ousted Deciem founder who is still very much posting on his personal Instagram about the future of the recently embattled skincare company, is now prohibited from making contact with two higher-ups at Estée Lauder, which owns 28 percent of Deciem.
As the poet Robert Frost once said, nothing gold can stay. As beauty company Deciem has found out, the same is true for its troubled boss, Brandon Truaxe.
On Friday, a judge in Canada ruled for the ouster of Brandon Truaxe, founder and CEO of skincare company Deciem. After a ten-month rollercoaster on the Instagram account, a closely-followed spectacle of abrupt firings and erratic images, Truaxe announced via a confessional video on Monday that the company was shutting…
Estée Lauder has been sued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over allegedly offering more maternity leave to women than paternity leave to men.
Pamela Anderson wrote a letter to MAC Cosmetics, appalled at the company’s decision to sell products in China, where animal testing is required by law for imported cosmetics. The staunch PETA activist, who has worked with MAC in the past, discovered that the brand “abandoned its celebrated policy against animal…
Have ya heard of Kendall Jenner? She's a real young self-starter who grew up on a farm in Iowa and is slowly taking over the fashion world! And she's doing it all based only on her own gumption and pull-herself-up-by-her-bootstraps attitude!
Looks like Jenner's modeling work and general omnipresence is paying off!
In 2010, Liu Wen became the first Asian woman to be the face of Estée Lauder's global brand. And now, just in time for New York Fashion Week, she explains how much of a big deal that was for her.
This week, Soledad O'Brien announced that her O'Brien Raymond Starfish Foundation would be teaming up with CoverGirl cosmetics to produce a series of documentaries as part of their "Girls Can" movement. For O'Brien, Girls Can is an way to help empower young women. For CoverGirl, it's the perfect way to convince young…
Spokesperson and model Elizabeth Hurley poses on the observation deck after lighting the Empire State Building pink in honor of the 20th Anniversary of the Estee Lauder Companies' Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign on Monday, Oct. 1, 2012 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Bulgarian model Marina Asenova is suing her New York agency, MC2 (that would be the agency run by this guy), for allegedly pocketing the money from a job that came through after she'd left town. A rather big job, actually: face of Sally Hansen cosmetics. Asenova left New York to work in European markets in 2006, and…
Like most red-blooded Americans, I am morally opposed to the idea of a beagle wearing foundation or a mouse wearing mascara; it's unnatural. As such, I only purchase cosmetics that don't test on animals — "cruelty free" products, if you will. But now, a lawsuit alleges that some pretty major makeup companies that…
Evelyn Lauder, an impressive businesswoman and a fierce champion of breast cancer research, died yesterday at age 75 from ovarian cancer.
The October issue of the fashion magazine Numéro features an editorial spread in which French model and Estée Lauder face Constance Jablonski poses in a brown Afro wig and dark makeup with this season's second-hottest accessory: a black baby.
Yesterday, we looked at editorial pages from the May 1986 issue of Elle magazine and compared them to the May 2010 issue. Today: Big hair, tan skin, turquoise eyeshadow and lots of lady-cigarettes: Let's compare advertising pages, then and now.
