Wellness news and archive

Boots reveal biggest beauty trends of 2024

K-beauty, blusher, hyaluronic acid and bespoke haircare are among the most in-demand products across beauty and wellness in 2024, according to British retailer Boots. As the UK’s leading health and beauty retailer, Boots stocks more than 600 healthcare brands and over 500 beauty brands, and it has analysed search and sales data from across the...

Retail

Applied Nutrition opens pop-up with Yelir

Applied Nutrition, the global sports nutrition, health and wellness brand, has opened its first-ever pop-up at Liverpool One in partnership with performance-wear fashion brand Yelir. The pop-up, located on Liverpool One’s Paradise Street until mid-January 2025, has been designed to bring together wellness and style in a unique shopping...

Fashion

Reebok expands into wellness with nutritional supplements

Global sportswear brand Reebok is making moves in the wellness space with a new partnership with Generation Joy to launch a line of sports nutrition and performance supplements. The Reebok-branded supplements have been designed to cater to a “broad audience, from committed gym-goers to the wellness-obsessed and weekend warriors,” explains the...

Business|Beauty Featured

Fresha secures 31 million US dollars in financing

London-based Fresha, the marketplace platform for beauty and wellness, has secured a 31 million US dollar venture debt facility from J.P. Morgan to accelerate its expansion into new markets and invest in machine learning and AI-powered robotics. Fresha offers subscription-free business software with embedded payment processing and a consumer...

People|Beauty

Mōdere names new president and chief operating officer

Mōdere, a global, clean lifestyle, health and wellness brand of household, and beauty and personal care products, has named Nate Frazier as president and chief operating officer, and as executive chairman of the company’s board of directors, effective immediately. In a statement, Mōdere said that Frazier brings more than two decades of...

Business|Beauty Featured

Christina Aguilera joins sexual wellness brand Playground

Playground, a sexual health and wellness company of water-based personal lubricants, has announced that Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Christina Aguilera is joining as co-founder and chief brand advisor. The brand, which had a soft-launch last year, offers good-for-you intimacy products that aim to improve women's sexual pleasure and...

Business

Halle Berry invests in wellness venture Pendulum

Actress, producer and director Halle Berry has a new role, joining Pendulum Therapeutics, a metabolic health and biotech company, as its chief communications officer, after becoming an equity owner and investor. In a statement, Pendulum said that Berry has been an “avid customer” for more than a year, and as an equity owner and investor, the...

Fashion|Beauty Featured

Kate Moss launches wellness-focused beauty line

There is another celebrity beauty line in town as supermodel Kate Moss has launched Cosmoss, a skincare and wellness brand offering balance and rejuvenation. Cosmoss is inspired by Moss’ own wellness journey and is a “celebration of every day exactly as it is, with all its imperfections”. The model, who has fronted numerous brands over the...

Retail

Galeries Lafayette Haussmann to reveal space dedicated to wellness

Paris department store Galeries Lafayette Haussmann has said it will be unveiling a new space in its main Cupola building, completely dedicated to wellness offerings. To be opened this coming summer, the location will span an entire 3,000 square metre floor and aims to “democratise access to wellness”, a sector the retailer said is still “highly...

Culture

Alo Yoga enters Roblox with virtual wellness experience

Fitness brand Alo Yoga has announced the opening of its virtual Alo Sanctuary in Roblox, offering users an immersive digital space for yoga and meditation. The experience looks to bring more awareness to the importance of well-being, welcoming Roblox users to learn more about the topic through guided meditations and on-demand yoga content....

Retail

Selfridges launches in-store well-being and retail therapy project

In keeping with its 2022 creative theme Superfutures, Selfridges has launched a well-being project, Superself, offering online and offline shoppers the opportunity for “self-discovery” through personal innovations and self-care projects. Superself activations will include Retail Therapy and coaching experiences in partnership with Stack World,...

Video

Peclers Paris' 4 Beauty & Wellness trends for 2023: Back to a powerful beauty

For FashionUnited, Peclers Paris shares its vision about Beauty & Wellness for the 2023 season. Dive into the 2023 trends with our new Beauty & Wellness trend book: an essential tool allowing you to identify major socio-cultural trends and creative trends for the beauty and cosmetics industry. After the reign of trends focusing on Essentials and...