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From deepfakes to affiliate links, producers of AI influencers are finding ways to make money even if brands aren’t interested in working with them.
Keywords are just one part of the equation when it comes to showing up in consumers’ highly detailed requests for beauty advice on ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.
Beauty tech firms and major conglomerates are staking their claims on AI’s next frontier with tools designed to recommend products, book services and streamline back-office operations.
Liz Flora is a Beauty Correspondent at Business of Fashion. She is based in Los Angeles and covers beauty and wellness.
The ‘everyman’ skincare market is moving towards premiumisation, as brands like Johnson’s Papatui ditch traditional one-note marketing for a more considered approach.
The successful restock of a vibrator and lube from Styles' beauty and wellness brand Pleasing shows how celebrities are sustaining the sexual wellness category, writes Bloomberg's Jessica Karl.
Following their Global Award wins, founders from Akt London, Yse Beauty and Ruka share how the recognition changed their business trajectories.
This week, Priya Rao examines Gen Alpha’s next big brand, Hiku.
The Swedish fast-fashion retailer is one of a shrinking number of companies that’s still drawing attention to its emissions goals. Plus, a Shanghai Fashion Week preview.
Small fashion labels have always been shortchanged by their wholesale partners. A wave of high-profile bankruptcies has turned a structural injustice into an existential crisis. There is a better way to do business, writes Imran Amed.
Fashion’s enfant terrible is trading exclusivity for the mass market. Is it the ultimate fashion coup, or the final surrender of prestige?
Textile hubs are already feeling the cascading risks of the conflict in Iran as Washington ramps up forced labour probes to revive tariffs, while decarbonisation in fashion’s factories might finally have a standard to go off of.
