What do your beauty products say about you? Does your array of potions and lotions signify that you take care of yourself? Why not go one step further: use any of the products from philanthropic new beauty and lifestyle brand All for Eve, and you’ll be taking care of other women too. The brand, developed
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Saving lives with lipstick
There were paparazzi blocking the pavement hours before the event began. Inside there were buff boys in tight pink T-shirts serving drinks. There was supermodel Agyness Deyn, working combat chic, flanked by her designer sidekick Henry Holland. Hell, there was even Dancing On Ice judge Jason Gardiner. It could only be a MAC event… But
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Vehicles of distribution
If you want to get ahead, get a bus. That, at least, is the belief of two major beauty brands – Nivea and Elemis – who are literally taking their product to the people, via the Nivea Skin Science Express and the Elemis Spa Bus, respectively. It’s a channel of distribution that puts a whole
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Rugby fans show support for Hand in Hand for Haiti
In rugby terms, there wasn’t much to celebrate on Saturday for anyone wearing red, as England scrabbled to a lucky, last-gasp win over an injury-depleted Wales at Twickenham. Scorpio Distributors Group Managing Director Stuart McGuire generously hosted a fabulous day (exception: the result) for assorted industry colleagues, and this journalist was lucky enough to be
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Bringing Brazil (and good old gallantry) to Cannes
The innovative “Casa Sagatiba” which made its debut at last month’s TFWA Exhibition in Cannes proved to be a real hit among the industry. By day a base for the Sagatiba brand, by night an exclusive, Brazilian-style lounge bar and garden, the venue offered invited guests sophisticated Sagatiba cocktails, music and an authentic Brazilian BBQ.
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Striking (Clogau) Gold with Golf
To celebrate being granted the official licence for jewellery and giftware for the Ryder Cup 2010, Clogau Gold organised an innovative daily four foot putting contest on its stand at last month’s TFWA Exhibition in Cannes. At the end of each day, a luxury prize (a Clogau automatic watch) was awarded to the winning competitor.
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MANN-SIZE MAGNUM
A glass – or two – of fine red wine is occasionally (ahem) enjoyed by certain members of The Moodie Report team, and this writer is no exception. The trouble is, some days, the bottle doesn’t always seem big enough, and the bottom is reached far too soon. We surely aren’t alone in thinking this,
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Scorpio nails Bourjois account
Scorpio Distributors showed how it nailed the Bourjois account in more ways than one last week, as Group Managing Director Stuart McGuire unleashed his inner metrosexual with a modish manicure. At a launch event in London, Scorpio previewed a selection of specially created Bourjois sets to the UK’s leading inflight retailers, and, of course, The
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The scent of Scarlett
We try to report impartially about launches on The Moodie Report, but at least one member of the team has a serious soft spot for the L’Oréal group’s latest feminine fragrance from Cacharel, called Scarlett – coincidentally the name of this writer’s elder daughter. And how fantastic of L’Oréal to a) remember this in the
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Hair today…
We’re a fortunate bunch at The Moodie Report, as suppliers are generous enough to send us a wide variety of product samples, which we greatly appreciate. Occasionally though, home offices (as opposed to head office) get sent product addressed to other members of the team, as happened last week with a rather gorgeous set of
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To sniff or to swallow…?
Seasoned industry observers will have noted for some time that certain fragrances and spirits offerings seem to have more and more in common, in terms of packaging and advertising, at least. Taking things one step further, however, is Thierry Mugler’s (Clarins Group) new AMen Pure Malt, the latest incarnation within the brand’s “Les Liqueurs de
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Events
The Art of Antiquitease
How do you follow a PA by Sean John, flanked by a buxom bevy of lingerie-clad lovelies posing on a podium? With MAC Antiquitease, of course. The Estee Lauder Companies’ traditional Monday night cocktail evening in Cannes needed to go some to top last year’s celebrity-studded bash – but that’s exactly what it did. (Real)