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Unilever-Owned Nutrafol Appoints New Chief Executive

Chief marketing officer Cindy Gustafson will take the supplement brand Nutrafol’s reins in 2025, succeeding co-founder Giorgos Tsetis. [...]

The Multi-Step Beauty Routine Moves Beyond the Face

It’s not just facial skincare that gets 10 steps or more these days as influencers drive demand for entire scalp, hair, body and hand care routines. [...]

Textile Recycling: Big Opportunity or Risky Business?

French engineering giant Technip Energies builds oil refineries and liquefied natural gas platforms. Now, it’s aiming to establish a $2 billion business regenerating polyester. [...]

Fashion’s New Era of Product Discovery

AI-powered curation across content and search is helping shoppers overwhelmed by choice to find the items they want, with benefits for brands and retailers, according to the BoF-McKinsey State of [...]

The Rise of the Indigenous Model

The four years since Quannah ChasingHorse was discovered by a Calvin Klein scouting director have seen a wave of Native talent appear on magazine covers and in high-profile shows. But [...]

Tally of US Shoppers Slipped During Key Holiday Weekend

Fewer Americans shopped during Thanksgiving weekend this year, a sign that consumers remain selective about spending. [...]

Off-White’s Beauty Line to Be Licensed by Interparfums

Following LVMH’s sale of Off-White, Interparfums will take on the role of beauty licensing partner in 2026. [...]

The Debrief | The Future of Resale

Retail editor Cathaleen Chen and e-commerce correspondent Malique Morris join senior correspondent Sheena Butler-Young and executive editor Brian Baskin to unpack how resale has evolved from niche to mainstream, and [...]

Mass Men’s Brand Harry’s Introduces $250 Fragrance

The shaving label aims to build “scent equity” with its first fine fragrance, a collaboration with artist Matt McCormick. [...]

Worldview | Dazed Magazine Launches Middle East Edition

This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Myanmar’s garment workers, Indian beauty major Nykaa and Trump’s tariff threats to China, Mexico and the BRICS countries. [...]

Premium Cosmetics Brand Violette_Fr Closes Series B Round

The French prestige line, founded by makeup artist Violette Serrat, announced on Tuesday it had raised funds in a round led by US-based consumer investor Silas Capital. [...]

Black Friday Sales: A Solid Holiday Kickoff, With Warning Signs for Retailers

Early promotions and consumer resistance to a rise in prices contributed to healthy sales growth over the holiday weekend. But consumers' growing expectations for discounts could spell trouble next year. [...]

Creating a Dialogue with Consumers Through Connected Products

Michele Casucci, founder and GM of Certilogo, gathered global executives from the fashion and luxury sectors onsite at BoF VOICES 2024 to discuss how digital product passport technology can support [...]

Jonathan Anderson, Simone Rocha and Grace Wales Bonner Take Top Prizes at the BFC’s Fashion Awards 2024

Tom Ford, Remo Ruffini, Tyler Mitchell, Alex Consani and A$AP Rocky were also honoured for their contributions to the industry. [...]

Nike-Owned Virtual Sneaker Brand RTFKT Is Shutting Down

The virtual sneaker and fashion brand will cease operations at a moment when Nike is reassessing priorities under new CEO Elliott Hill. [...]

How Beauty Devices Finally Broke Through

For years, at-home cosmetic devices based on in-office treatments have been slow to sell. Then the pandemic made them one of beauty’s fastest growing categories. [...]

Nina Surel’s ceramic symbol of Florida acquired for Miami Beach’s collection at Art Basel

The acquisition is the latest in the city’s annual Legacy Purchase programme [...]

Five years after the banana frenzy, Maurizio Cattelan takes aim at gun violence at Art Basel Miami Beach

The artist is debuting a new work, intended as a statement on gun violence, at Gagosian’s stand [...]

Small but mighty: sales under $10,000 defy market

The lower-priced sector is also the fastest growing, doubling over the past decade [...]

Restorers return La Scala’s coloured facade to former glory—in baby blue and pink

The exterior of the famed Milan opera house underwent its first clean-up in 20 years [...]

Influencers: is it time for museums to go all in?

As an advertising agency pays Instagram influencers to promote museums, is it really worth shelling out thousands of dollars for added publicity and to reach new audiences? [...]

Remembering Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, groundbreaking director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

Charismatic leader who steered the museum through a difficult period in the 1980s, and later became a university vice-chancellor [...]

A brush with… Hank Willis Thomas — podcast

An in-depth interview with the conceptual artist, Roy DeCarava’s photographs, James Baldwin’s writing, and the way he infuses painting into his own work [...]

How Craig Robins became a collector with an eye to the future, seen through the prism of the past

The Miami-based art lover and real estate developer refined his approach to acquisition and to promoting public art through a four-decade friendship with the conceptual art pioneer John Baldessari [...]

Late Dutch maverick artist Jacqueline de Jong honoured in first US solo show

The artist died in June this year after more than 60 years creating work that was both political and colourful [...]

South Florida, which has been dubbed ‘Wall Street South’, lures—but does not mint—collectors

The state’s finance surge has paid only modest dividends to the art trade [...]

Submerged shipwreck sculpture on Miami beach confronts colonialism

Nicholas Galanin’s work takes the form of a wrecked Spanish galleon, its sails emblazoned with questions the artist says are “a call to awareness and action” [...]

‘Each body of work is exceptional to me’: George Merck on inception pieces and the maquette that got away

The Palm Beach-based art collector is drawn to works that play with light, and plans Miami nights with rigour [...]

Tusk tusk: couple gets a hard time over animal instincts atop Miami sculpture

Sex on the beach is the elephant in the room in Miami, where a couple has given a new meaning to public art [...]

How experts are kickstarting art institutions' sustainability plans

Climate consultants are helping museums, including ICA Miami and the Getty, to create systemic change [...]

Miami Advice: Natalia Zuluaga on a little-known work that pays tribute to the city’s Black history

Continuing last year’s popular series, throughout Art Basel Miami Beach we are speaking to members of the local art scene about their favourite cultural destinations around Miami [...]

Inside the Miami non-profit that is rethinking art patronage

Since 2018 the organisation Commissioner has helped Miamians connect with and collect local artists while fostering a sense of community [...]

‘I’ve always dreamt of bringing a studio into the museum’: Miami-born José Parlá makes art in dialogue with the public

The artist talks working in a replica of his studio inside Pérez Art Museum Miami, and the choice to make art in desperate conditions [...]

Full colour: celebrating 15 years of street art in Miami’s Wynwood

A new book reveals the exuberant and varied work created by numerous artists that has been key to the rejuvenation of the district north of the city’s downtown [...]

Jasleen Kaur wins 2024 Turner Prize for show evoking the joy and power of coming together

The Scottish-born artist was commended for “the considered way in which she weaves together the personal, political and spiritual” [...]

Artist Jen Stark brings her kaleidoscopic imagery to her hometown with Miami outdoor installation

The artist invites visitors to dive into a playful space on the historic Española Way and become part of her work [...]

December Book Bag: from Nick Cave’s devilish works to an analysis of Rembrandt’s competition with his star pupil

Our round-up of the latest art publications [...]

Some of our favourite books of 2024—picked by The Art Newspaper’s books team

Our literary editors share what has delighted them this year, from art-themed novels to edifying histories [...]

Intense repartee: a collection of letters that the critic John Berger exchanged with his artist son

The correspondence between John and Yves Berger is both moving and enlightening [...]

Beetlejuice and beyond: the origins of Tim Burton’s world of gothic romance and its enduring influence

Catalogue accompanying exhibition at London’s Design Museum explores the US film-maker’s unique aesthetic [...]

An expert’s guide to the Venetian Renaissance: five must-read books on the period

All you ever wanted to know about the subject, from the story of Carpaccio and Bellini's narrative painting to a Venice guide for little explorers—selected by the curators Annette Hojer [...]

Zeitz museum’s Koyo Kouoh appointed as curator of 2026 Venice Biennale

Kouoh, who has directed the Cape Town museum since 2019, said it is a “privilege” to “compose an exhibition that I hope will carry meaning for the world we currently [...]

Magnum’s opus of America: a new photography compendium reveals the many sides of the US

The publication’s co-editor Peter van Agtmael chooses seven key images from legendary agency’s new book [...]

Stellar work: Mercury crater named after artist Ruth Asawa

The Japanese-American sculptor is the 23rd woman to be given the honour—compared with 100 men [...]

Who was buried in Ornans? Restoration of Gustave Courbet’s intriguing masterwork may offer clues

The Musée d’Orsay hopes the restoration of ‘A Burial at Ornans’—once a Salon scandal, now a pride of the Paris museum—will unlock some of its secrets and reveal the painting [...]

Artist being electrocuted to show the sinister implications of AI among highlights of the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 11

The work by Kawita Vatanajyankur and Pat Pataranutaporn was acquired by the Queensland Art Gallery, where the sprawling exhibition is being held [...]

Miami Beach presentation to show there was more to Milton Avery than landscapes

Karma gallery, now representing the influential artist’s estate in the US, will reveal his circus-themed paintings at Art Basel Miami Beach and his ‘wild’ portraiture next year [...]

France returns ancient artefacts to Ethiopia in diplomatic ‘handover’

The French culture minister insists the move is “a handover, not a restitution, in that these objects have never been part of French public collections” [...]

Gold star medal taken from an Ethiopian war hero surfaces at auction

The grandchildren of Ras Desta Damtew, an Ethiopian general and noble, are seeking to recover the piece, listed in the online auction catalogue as coming from the estate of an [...]

The architecture graduate tasked with recording Notre-Dame’s renovation—in pencil and chalk

Over four years, and often perched on scaffolding, Axelle Ponsonnet has documented the project's progress behind the scenes [...]

Notre-Dame de Paris in seven works of art

Notre-Dame may have started out as a Gothic cathedral, but over the centuries it has morphed into a civic emblem and leading tourist attraction—it has also become a reliable muse [...]

Did a video game help rebuild Notre-Dame after the fire?

'Assassin’s Creed Unity' boasts a detailed virtual model of the cathedral—but not detailed enough for the restorers of the building [...]

‘Notre-Dame still retains some of its mystery’: the surprises revealed in the restoration

The painstaking work of archaeologists has uncovered two lost tombs and rare medieval masons’ marks [...]

Green wood, axes and oaks: how ancient skills helped to raise Notre-Dame's new roof

A small army of carpenters combined traditional craftmanship with digital design tools to rebuild the medieval roof frame known as "the forest" [...]

Lucky statues on Notre-Dame's spire to take up their position once more

Copper sculptures representing the Twelve Apostles and four New Testament Evangelists were removed for cleaning days before the fire [...]

Out of the ashes: how Notre-Dame has been resurrected in a miraculously short time

Faith, politics and emotion have fused in the rebuilding of the Paris cathedral partially destroyed by a fire in 2019 [...]

Twelve must-see exhibitions in South Florida during Miami Art Week

From ambitious new projects by Andrea Chung, Rachel Feinstein, Marguerite Humeau and José Parlá to shows devoted to the revered and recently deceased artists Jacqueline de Jong and Keiichi Tanaami [...]

Window of opportunity: the artists who worked in retail display

A show in Basel explores the art of window dressing, with works by artists from Andy Warhol to Marina Abramović at the Tinguely Museum and across the city [...]

Visual love poem: Robert Frank’s handmade photobook for his future wife goes on show

The work, made while the young photographer was in Paris, will be exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [...]

Exquisitely crafted objects once housed in science museums are the focus of an exhibition in Venice

Show at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani in Venice will include artefacts from the George Loudon collection amongst other curiosities [...]

With an $11m Leonora Carrington cat woman sculpture, Eduardo Costantini adds another jewel to his Buenos Aires museum

In recent years the Malba founder has emerged as one of Latin America's leading collectors [...]

Scientific wonders from Versailles, which once delighted kings, to go on show in London

The Science Museum exhibition will explore the French monarchy’s fascination with scientific observation and experimentation under Louis XIV and XV [...]

Go big or go to the London gallery offering small beautiful art

Flowers Gallery has opened its annual exhibition of little pieces [...]

India Art Fair cancels its inaugural Mumbai show

The new event would have coincided with the city’s existing Art Mumbai fair [...]

Candida Gertler steps down from Outset Contemporary Art Fund citing 'alarming rise of antisemitism' in cultural spaces

Move comes after 1,100 art workers sign an open letter demanding Tate cuts ties with the philanthropic organisation, which she co-founded in 2003 [...]

‘Most of the value comes from the internet’: collector Justin Sun discusses the future of digital art and his newly acquired banana work at Hong Kong event

The crypto entrepreneur spoke to The Art Newspaper about his journey into collecting, how he feels technology is transforming the art market, and more [...]

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