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Meet the top beauty bosses taking skincare to the next level


by Rose Mary Roche
13th Sep 2021

Rose Mary Roche speaks to the new breed of female-led beauty bosses building their empire with an emotional as well as a commercial connection with clients.

  When it was revealed that Rihanna has become a billionaire thanks to her Fenty beauty brand, it emphasised how lucrative the business of beauty can be for female entrepreneurs. While Rihanna’s fame and dramatic growth have made her the source of intense media interest, she is not the first woman to create a personal fortune from beauty. She has leveraged her global fame and massive Instagram following to create her empire (with LVMH who...

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