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April 14, 2005

Tom Ford and Domenico De Sole are the New Estee Lauder

Tom Ford & Domenico De Sole would like to follow former fashion gurus turned beauty icons; Yves Saint Laurent, Prada and Versace. Do you think the industry can support another fashion beauty brand? Are the 80's coming back? Makeup artist brands such as Bobbi Brown and Trish McEvoy ruled the 90's with the early part of this decade generating glitter makeup trends and the cute girlie gloss concepts. Are we ready for fashion makeup again? But what about Tom's film career?

Tom and Domenico have announced this week that they want to make lipstick and have signed on with William Lauder at Estee Lauder to help make their dreams come true. Ford will be CEO and De Sole, chairman. The Lauder deal will be accomplished in two phases. Limited distribution this Christmas for the Estée Lauder. Then a stand alone beauty brand for fall 2006. Naturally they will start with fragrances first.

Ford launched Rush for Gucci (Constance Marie Wherrity's favorite fragrance) in 1999 and Nu at Yves Saint Laurent in 2001. Now the question I want to know is... do you think Tom's new beauty label will make anything as fierce and fabulous as the Yves Saint Laurent Touche Eclat? I love that stuff!

Posted by at April 14, 2005 11:09 AM

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