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☆ With Gen Z, millennials now the biggest ‘dupe’ shoppers, online culture has ‘flipped the script,’ analyst says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Ana Teresa Solá | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

So-called girl math is not the only trend spurred by users on the short-form video app TikTok. "Dupes," short for "duplicate," are cheaper alternatives to premium or luxury consumer products, and they are increasingly popular among Gen Z and millennial shoppers and app users. While nearly one-third of adults, 31%, have intentionally purchased a dupe of a premium product at some point, Gen Z and millennials have higher participation rates: roughly 49% and 44%, respectively, according to Morning Consult. "The online culture of dupe shopping, accelerated by TikTok especially in the last few years, has flipped the script," said Ellyn Briggs, brands analyst at Morning Consult. While shoppers may miss out on the experience luxury products provide, dupes are less expensive versions that help consumers save money and test an item before splurging on the real thing.

Persons: Z, Gen, Ellyn Briggs, that's, Marisa Meltzer, Meltzer, Emily Weiss's Glossier Organizations: TikTok, Morning, Finance Locations: New York

☆ Don’t Call These Clothes Minimalist. Or Quiet Luxury for That Matter.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Marisa Meltzer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Quiet luxury, oh God,” Isabel Wilkinson Schor, the designer of Attersee, said with a small sigh. “I don’t consider us a part of that trend at all. It’s been around for a very long time, and it’s equated with minimalism. I don’t see what we are doing as minimalism.”Attersee, which Ms. Wilkinson Schor founded in 2021, is known for the kinds of high quality, strokeable fabrics associated with the trend. The impetus for the line was simply to find everyday clothes that were comfortable and beautiful, not the kind of thing that would be worn only to a big event once a year.

Persons: ” Isabel Wilkinson Schor, Attersee, It’s, it’s, Wilkinson Schor, Mary Janes, Drogheria Locations: cardigan

☆ Opinion | You Can Win in Business Without Being Unhinged
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I’ve read and watched many stories about the most heralded business leaders of the past few centuries. I’m not immune to the inherent drama of an arrogant rise, a spectacular fall or both. (For example, harassing job interviewees, firing people in front of crowds, attacking former employees of companies they purchased. Isaacson puts innovation first: This man might be a monster, but look at what he built! Whereas Mary Shelley, for instance, put innovation second: The man who built this is a monster!

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☆ Glossier founder Emily Weiss loved asking job candidates, 'Why do you work?' new book says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The beauty brand's founder, Emily Weiss , started the company as an offshoot of her successful beauty blog, Into the Gloss. In " Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier ," author Marisa Meltzer interviewed Weiss as well as Glossier employees and former job candidates who described Weiss's hiring tactics. She told Meltzer that there wasn't a right answer but that this question helped her understand what motivated people. AdvertisementAdvertisement"There has to be more to it than just, 'Oh, I need to support my family,'" Weiss told Meltzer. When she replied with a popular company, Weiss told her she hated it.

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☆ Tell-all book lifts the lid on troubled beauty brand Glossier
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Glossier, a direct-to-consumer cosmetics company launched in 2014 by US businesswoman Emily Weiss, pioneered this new aesthetic. At Glossier, beauty marks were celebrated, freckles were lionized and makeup application became as free form as finger painting. Beyoncé, Serena Williams, Michelle Obama and Reese Witherspoon have all been pictured wearing the makeup brand to red carpet events like the Oscars and The Grammys. For Meltzer, the brand fell victim to something that often trips up companies leading the zeitgeist: an evolving landscape. But “Glossy” isn’t just a beauty brand biography — it’s a forensic cross-examination of an era-defining company and how it embodied a moment in wider culture.

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☆ Stephen King Explains Why He’s a Mystery Writer Not So Big on Mystery
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Stephen King’s new novel, “Holly,” is his sixth book to feature the private investigator Holly Gibney, who made her debut as a mousy side character in the 2014 novel “Mr. Along the way, he also tells a dad joke, remembers his friend Peter Straub, and discusses his views on writing and life. “Writing is partially an escape valve, but it’s also a way of understanding what’s going on in your life and what’s going on in a particular story. Those things are part of the reason to write at all, I think,” King says. “I don’t think you should think a lot about the act of writing as you write, because I think that’s counterproductive.

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☆ A Dishy Tell-All About Emily Weiss’s Glossier
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Hunter Harris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

GLOSSY: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier, by Marisa MeltzerA Glossier brick and mortar opened in my neighborhood last fall, and because that neighborhood is Williamsburg, I could comfortably declare it to be the brand’s time of death. Here lies Glossier, the millennial pink tombstone’s black etching would read, makeup for pretty people. That the Williamsburg Glossier is neighbored by retail stores for Parachute (bedding), Mejuri (jewelry) and Warby Parker (glasses) does not feel coincidental; all the formerly online-only direct-to-consumer brands are arranged on North Sixth Street in a neat little row. But when the first permanent Glossier showroom opened in SoHo in 2016, it was the cool girl’s place to go after work. Its founder, Emily Weiss, remains the star student in a class of girl bosses who have either imploded or flamed out.

Persons: Emily Weiss’s Glossier, Marisa Meltzer, Glossier, Warby Parker, Beyoncé, ingeniously, Emily Weiss, Audrey Gelman, clawing, Weiss Organizations: Sixth, Social Locations: Williamsburg, SoHo, Cobble Hill

☆ The 5 Most Annoying Workwear Problems for Women, Solved
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Marisa Meltzer | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SAY YES TO NO STRESS Not everyone has access to designer work duds like Anne Hathaway in ‘The Devil Wears Prada,’ seen here in a swanky Chanel blazer. But a few easy hacks will make assembling the perfect office look a breeze. Photo: Everett CollectionFOR MOST women in traditional offices, assembling a workplace wardrobe is excruciating—and not for reasons you might expect. While the post-WFH era ushered in the “How casual is too casual?” guessing game, the most pressing workwear problems predate Covid 19. Do wrinkle-resistant blazers exist?—that few women openly discuss and even fewer brands adequately address.

☆ Skip the Plastic Surgery. Age ‘Intentionally’ With These Kinder Treatments.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-14 | by ( Marisa Meltzer | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

ABOUT FACE Not everyone keen to counter aging wants a major face-lift. Some women are rejecting scalpels in favor of gentler treatments. EVERY YEAR on her birthday Heidi A. Waldorf, a dermatologist in Nanuet, N.Y., posts a selfie on social media. But she does include information on the beauty treatments she’s had, including dermal fillers, botulinum toxin (Dysport) and Thermage, a radio-frequency therapy that tightens skin. All these in-office procedures are nonsurgical and considered non- or minimally invasive.

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