This Month
Laser Clinics to flash silky-smooth legs at bidders; KKR hires adviser
KKR’s Laser Clinics has fielded unsolicited interest from global PE players, prompting local PE boss David Lang to consider strategic options in 2025.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
December 2024
Alexandra Keating sees problems, and builds businesses to solve them
The former PM’s daughter has spent most of her career in tech. Now she’s moved on into beauty.
- Lauren Sams
- Opinion
- AFR Magazine
Fashion should focus on its best customers – and they’re not 20-year-olds
Aussies over 40 are spending more on discretionary goods, so why aren’t more smart designers and retailers looking to leverage their older clientele?
- Lauren Sams
Popular beauty brand Wrinkles Schminkles seeks strategic partner
The beauty brand has appointed global advisory firm ANKURA Consulting to find it an investment partner after a decade of private ownership.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Melbourne needs a good scrub down, says this well-travelled style guru
Monocle magazine’s Tyler Brûlé is sought for his opinions on matters of taste. He offers some thoughts on how Australia could boost its tourist appeal.
- Matthew Drummond
November 2024
Mammoth tusks and jellyfish: how to bring jewellery ‘alive’
Starting with a sculpture helps jewellery designer Bibi van der Velden define in her mind her collections of ‘wearable works of art’.
- Lauren Sams
Meet the skincare company with 460pc growth
Identifying a niche is easy. Filling it – at scale – is the challenge, as these successful founders discovered.
- Lauren Sams
How a yearning for travel grew a 35-year-old overnight success
Diversification has been key to the success of these three fast-growing retail and travel businesses.
- Sue Mitchell
The stories behind the world’s top-selling jewellery
Symbols of luck and love, empowerment and experimentation, these pieces have endured across generations.
- Hannah Tattersall
October 2024
Space: The final fashion frontier
Prada and Axiom Space unveiled their NASA spacesuits, in the most far-out collaboration yet.
- Vanessa Friedman
The make-up products you can use one-handed
Katherine Power’s beauty brand has generated revenues of more than $150 million a year by making skincare products targeted at busy women over 40.
- Lauren Sams
- Opinion
- AFR Magazine
The Australian fashion staple you won’t see on the streets of Paris
You’ll see a lot of different styles in the couture capital, but activewear outside the gym? Quelle horreur.
- Lauren Sams
Macquarie’s venture division plugs into manufacturing platform Atelier
Macquarie director Jonathan Lay led the deal, putting a term sheet in front of Atelier within four weeks of it being in-market.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Boho is back, baby. Master its vibe for runway-ready looks
No need to wait for a summer music festival to embrace this free-spirited fashion revival.
- Lauren Sams
How this company boss navigates style since becoming a parent
Glossier founder Emily Weiss loves brunch, Barbie and a Mediterranean island escape – and there’s one item she’ll never part with.
- Lauren Sams
All the fabulous looks and fantasy of Paris Fashion Week
From bubble hems and beaded blouses to the return of the bumster, The Australian Financial Review’s fashion editor shares the highlights from the shows.
- Lauren Sams
September 2024
Everything you’ve always wanted to know about Fashion Week
The whole soiree is actually a month, taking in four big events in New York, London, Milan and Paris. Here’s a rundown of what’s been happening on the runways.
- Lauren Sams
Former Young Rich Lister’s surprise return to the business she left behind
Erin Deering is about to launch her new fashion brand, and says it’s surreal to be back in the game after nearly 10 years away.
- Lauren Sams
This summer’s most stylish status symbols come from luxury hotels
Forget Dior and Chanel. Wearing swag from beloved holiday properties has suddenly become the latest and hottest fashion trend.
- Sarah Rappaport
August 2024
The Australian brands cashing in on Gen Alpha’s skincare obsession
They can’t drive yet, but the spending power of people born after 2010 is predicted to outstrip that of their parents and Gen Z combined.
- Lauren Sams