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  17. Analysis

    Baldness Drugs Are Wall Street's Next Goldmine

    Wall Street is pricing hair-loss drugmakers like the next GLP-1, with Veradermics up nearly 500% since its February IPO and Lilly backing Absci's antibody bet.

  24. Article

    Beauty Forum's Skin-Type Lesson Traces to a 1910 Marketing Category, Not a Clinical One

    Beauty Forum Deutschland's new training column tells licensed German estheticians that skin type is genetically fixed, using a four-category system that traces to a 1910 sales classification by Helena Rubinstein rather than clinical research. Dermatology literature as recent as 2024 and 2025 still calls precise skin-type classification poorly characterized, with at least 17 competing instruments in clinical use and none adopted as the professional standard the column presents.

  26. Article

    Society Management's College Sports Push Meets a Deal-Rejecting Clearinghouse

    The Society Management's new alliance with Canopy Talent to broker college athlete brand deals will route every contract through a Deloitte-run NIL clearinghouse that has rejected roughly 90 million dollars in deals over the past year, a review Society's existing pro athlete clients never face.

  27. Article

    Climatic's 55% Mucus-Clearance Claim Is a Sheep Result

    Climatic's 55% mucus-clearance figure comes from an induced impairment model in sheep, not a human trial. Its published human evidence is a four-athlete uncontrolled case series, while a larger randomized study is registered but has posted no results.

  28. Article

    JD.com Cites K-Beauty Demand, Then Signs an Eyewear Brand

    JD Group's vice chairman framed his company's new Korean purchasing subsidiary as a bet on rising K-beauty demand, but the only contract disclosed from the launch event went to an eyewear brand, and Korea's cosmetics exports to China fell 5.1 percent in the same half.

  29. Article

    AMUSE Is the Only Growth Shinsegae International's Cosmetics Unit Has Left

    AMUSE's new Bangkok stores are opening just as parent Shinsegae International posts a quarterly operating loss and its cosmetics division shrinks once AMUSE is stripped out, leaving one acquired brand to carry both the unit's growth and a 2028 revenue target it is not yet on pace to hit.

  30. Article

    Astaxanthin Comes From a Tank. Fucoidan Still Comes From the Sea.

    Marine skincare's sustainability story rests on cultivated "blue biotechnology," but that describes only one of the category's flagship actives: astaxanthin comes from closed photobioreactors, while the world's leading fucoidan supplier still wild-harvests seaweed from Tasmania, where the species is officially listed as an invasive marine pest.

  31. Article

    Behind FROM:CELLA's Myeongdong Listing, a Pharmacy Chain's Rapid Sprint

    FROM:CELLA's addition to a fourth Optima Wellness Museum store is a minor brand footnote; the notable number is how fast the host chain itself has grown, from one Gangnam pharmacy in September 2025 to at least nine locations across Korea within eleven months.

  32. Article

    SONOKO's Ginza Fair Marks a Pivot From Win-Back to New Customers

    SONOKO's Philippine-themed cafe fair in Ginza, run with the Philippine Embassy and timed to the 70th anniversary of Japan-Philippines diplomatic relations, is framed by its president as a bid for customers the mail-order beauty company does not have yet. That marks a break from the lapsed-customer reactivation strategy that pulled the company out of a post-founder-death decline.

  33. Article

    Urban Outfitters Turns a Four-Year Campus Program Into One Commercial

    Urban Outfitters' first dedicated back-to-campus commercial centralizes a student-marketing system that predates the film by four years. The new element is a reusable cross-channel creative asset, not a larger disclosed creator network or a new campus strategy.

  34. Article

    Quality First Calls Its New Mask Line the Brand's Highest Peak. It Said That Twice Before.

    Quality First's press release for its new Derma Laser PRO masks calls the line the brand's highest peak in history, a claim its own footnote says is measured only against its earlier products. It is at least the third time since November 2023 that the company has given a new Derma Laser launch that same superlative, each one self-assessed rather than benchmarked against a rival or an outside standard.

  35. Article

    Hims & Hers Grew 38%. It Also Booked $62.5 Million in FTC-Linked Charges.

    Hims & Hers grew Q2 revenue 38 percent to $753.2 million and raised full-year guidance, but the same release shows a swing to an $86.3 million net loss, driven mainly by $62.5 million in legal accruals its CFO tied to the FTC's late-July privacy and billing lawsuit.

  36. Article

    Dries Van Noten Got a Hand Cream Line. Its Founder Got a Foundation Grant.

    In April 2026, Puig extended the Dries Van Noten trademark into hand and body care at Byredo-level prices while separately signing a three-year funding deal with founder Dries Van Noten's independent nonprofit foundation, two moves that reveal how the group is managing the brand's value since his 2024 exit from the runway.

  38. Article

    Vital Beautie's PDRN Supplement Launches Into a Regulatory Gap

    Amorepacific's Vital Beautie has launched an oral PDRN and collagen supplement, but PDRN itself carries no health-functional-food recognition from Korea's food and drug regulator, unlike the collagen it is paired with, even as regulator advertising violations tied to PDRN have climbed sharply since 2023.

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