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Pat McGrath Labs, a cosmetics brand founded by renowned makeup artist Pat McGrath, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The article explores the brand's rise, its challenges, and the broader struggles within the makeup industry.
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Ms. Swift, who has refrained from endorsing products in recent years, did not reveal which brand of lipstick she was wearing. But swarms of online commenters decided it had to be Pat McGrath Labs LiquiLust in Elson 4. After all, Ms. Swift had signaled her approval of the brand when Pat McGrath herself appeared in the video for her song \u201cBejeweled,\u201d playing a queen who applies makeup to the star\u2019s face.If a company tried to engineer this kind of promotion, the fee would reach several million dollars. But when the social media chatter tying Ms. McGrath to Ms. Swift was at its peak, the lipstick was out of stock \u2014 and it stayed that way for much of the nearly two-year run of the Eras Tour.In the impulse-driven, roller coaster cycle of makeup trends, the steady flow of products is crucial. The fact that one of the most promising cosmetics brands of the past decade was unable to fill eager fans\u2019 handbags with LiquiLust suggested that something at the company was wrong.Valued at more than $1 billion in 2018, Pat McGrath Cosmetics announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Jan. 22 to \u201csimplify its capital structure, reduce its debt load and unlock the potential of this brand.\u201d Last month, after having agreed to an interview for this article, Ms. McGrath decided against it.The plunge from billion-dollar valuation to bankruptcy has baffled many people outside the company. Here was a brand founded by the most creative makeup artist since Max Factor, one who has touched the faces of Oprah Winfrey, Kim Kardashian, Madonna, Rihanna and \u2014 well, how much time do you have?Ms. McGrath assisting Emily Ratajkowski, top, backstage at the 2025 Victoria\u2019s Secret fashion show. Above, Taylor Swift \u2014 wearing her signature lipstick \u2014 celebrated with Travis Kelce after the Kansas City Chiefs\u2019 Super Bowl win in 2024.Credit...Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images; Doug Mills\/The New York TimesMs. McGrath didn\u2019t just paint lipstick on the most recognized performer of our day. She applied 30,000 red Swarovski crystals to Doja Cat\u2019s head and torso. She glued lace, vinyl, feathers and who knows what else onto faces at fashion shoots and runway shows. Meloney Moore, dean of the De Sole School of Business Innovation at the Savannah College of Art and Design and a former marketing executive at Est\u00e9e Lauder, saw Pat McGrath Labs as a return to earth. With the makeup line, Ms. McGrath found a way to allow \u201ceveryone to participate in the moment instead of being spectators.\u201dA Creative LifeBorn in Northampton, England, Ms. McGrath spent her childhood with her single Jamaican mother, Jean, a dressmaker. After school, Pat would plant herself in her neighborhood newsstand, poring over the latest issue of Italian Vogue. \u201cI was always obsessed,\u201d she told me in an interview for The Cut in 2016. Her nose was pressed against the glass because \u201cfashion was such a closed arena.\u201dShe eventually figured out a way into that arena. Step 1 was an introduction to Caron Wheeler, the lead singer of Soul II Soul, whom she joined in the early 1990s as her makeup artist while she was on tour in Japan. It was the first time Ms. McGrath had been on an airplane. Step 2 was, naturally, Paris. With a counterfeit Vogue ID, she slipped her way into the standing section of a few fashion shows. She recalled behaving like a superfan, shouting the names of the models as they hit the catwalk.It didn\u2019t take long for her to get her hands on those models. Her friend Edward Enninful, the fashion director of i-D magazine at the time, asked her to paint a model\u2019s eyebrows banana yellow for an editorial photo shoot. In 2016, he described McGrath as having \u201ca na\u00efve fearlessness.\u201dImageMs. McGrath is seated in the front row at a New York Fashion Week show in 2015 with Edward Enninful and Diane von Furstenberg.Credit...Neil Rasmus\/BFA, via ShutterstockHer break came in 1994, on set with the photographer Steven Meisel, a star-maker with the power to elevate models, stylists, makeup artists and Madonna. Soon, Ms. McGrath was doing shows for Prada, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton, Versace and Lanvin. In those days, she was known to bring more than 80 trunks filled with cosmetics, reference books and sequins, just in case.She also functioned as a sort of brand whisperer, collaborating with designers on their nascent cosmetic collections, starting with Giorgio Armani for L\u2019Or\u00e9al, which was introduced in 2000. Word spread, and Ms. McGrath translated the visions of other designers, including Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana, into lipstick and eye shadow.\u201cShe\u2019s a true, true, true creative visionary,\u201d said John Demsey, a beauty industry consultant and former Est\u00e9e Lauder executive.She wasn\u2019t above Walmart or CVS, where she developed mass-market products as the global creative director of CoverGirl and Max Factor. The logical next step was to start her own brand. It had worked for Fran\u00e7ois Nars, who sold Nars Cosmetics to Shiseido in 2000 and bought an island in Bora Bora; it had worked for Bobbi Brown. Certainly, the most inventive makeup artist of all time could pull it off. She called her brand Pat McGrath Labs, billing it as \u201ca place of innovation, experimentation.\u201dLiquid GoldIn the makeup labs of manufacturers in Italy, she found a highly reflective, prismatic gold eye shadow with a gel base that gave the pearlized finish a pure intensity. When Ms. McGrath dripped an activator on the disk, it became fluid without losing its vibrancy. In keeping with the laboratory theme, she named it Gold 001, left it in its plastic lab-sample compact and sold it with a liquid activator.ImageMs. McGrath at a 50th-anniversary event for CoverGirl in West Hollywood, Calif., in 2011, when she was the brand\u2019s creative director. From left to right, Ms. Swift, Esi Eggleston Bracey, Ellen DeGeneres, Drew Barrymore, Ms. McGrath, Dania Ramirez, Queen Latifah and Ana de la Reguera.Credit...John Shearer\/Getty ImagesOn a sunny afternoon in September 2015, Ms. McGrath and her fleet of assistants gathered at Tuileries Gardens in Paris to paint gold on the eyelids and lips of Bella Hadid, Imaan Hammam and other models who wandered over between fashion shows.The organic, unchoreographed energy of the event mirrored Ms. McGrath\u2019s approach to makeup, that chaotic backstage moment when inspiration strikes. \u201cMost makeup lines would take years to come out,\u201d she said in 2016. \u201cI was thinking, why not now, just one?\u201d She packaged 1,000 kits of eye shadows and activators in sacks filled with a cushioning of gold sequins. She said the kits were for \u201cpeople that are as mad about makeup and as obsessed as I am.\u201dCosmetics companies work hard to be easy. They don\u2019t expect people to mix their own formulas in their bathrooms. But Ms. McGrath wanted her customers to practice alchemy, to turn powder to liquid the way she did. The $40 kit, offered on her website, sold out in minutes.There was no business plan, no aspiration for three feet of shelves \u2014 called gondolas \u2014 at Sephora, no product pipeline on a seasonal cadence.She followed the gold with other bright, shiny objects. Her Skin Fetish Highlighter and Balm duo was equally unconventional, equally reliant on at-home chemistry. The $72 kits included a double-sided stick with a balm on one end and a silver or gold highlighter on the other, plus a wafer of pressed gel that looked like a holographic opal. And while the products may have held the secret to Ms. McGrath\u2019s technique of bringing out the skin\u2019s luminosity, good luck trying to figure out how to apply them without a beauty school diploma.\u201cI can\u2019t bear to do something that\u2019s already been done,\u201d she said at the time.At a 2016 event celebrating her line\u2019s Sephora debut, fans waited outside the company\u2019s Union Square location for hours to see Ms. McGrath, seated in the middle of the selling floor like visiting royalty. Grace Coddington, the longtime Vogue fashion editor; Kim Chi, a runner-up on \u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race\u201d; and a number of models leaned in to congratulate her. Shoppers hugged her, held her hand. A woman in head-to-toe leather fell to her knees and cried at Ms. McGrath\u2019s feet.ImageMs. McGrath at the debut of her Skin Fetish line at the Sephora store in Union Square in New York.Credit...John Lamparski\/Getty ImagesUntil then, Ms. McGrath had funded her company herself. In 2018, investors came courting. Eurazeo Brands, a private equity firm in Paris, invested $60 million, valuing the brand at more than $1 billion, even though its sales were estimated at only $40 million.You would think that investors had gone mad. That same year, Anastasia Beverly Hills, a brand devoted to eyebrow grooming, was valued at $3 billion; Glossier and Huda Beauty also achieved unicorn valuations. Such heady numbers were extracted, in part, from the brands\u2019 sales potential and earned media value, a metric that assesses unpaid social media exposure. Fame and promise were how one industry expert characterized the calculations, which aren\u2019t calculations at all. In retrospect, it sounds like the beginning of a cautionary tale.Early ChaosIn interviews since December, five former Pat McGrath Cosmetics employees described having been brought into the company with no formal titles and no specific job descriptions. They emphasized that Ms. McGrath made every decision, despite her lack of financial and operational experience. She approved every social post, creative campaign and piece of email marketing, even when she was out of the office \u2014 for several months each year \u2014 at fashion shows and photo shoots.Meetings took place at all hours to accommodate her schedule. And yet, former employees said they were dazzled by Ms. McGrath\u2019s talent. They endured the stress and sleeplessness for the privilege of working with a star.The company was burning through that initial $60 million investment. Mr. Meisel shot several ads for Pat McGrath Labs featuring Naomi Campbell for an estimated $1 million apiece, according to two former executives at the company. At a typical beauty start-up, campaigns cost tens of thousands of dollars, if they exist at all.No one could deny the lavishness of the products, with names that sounded as if they had emerged from a fever dream. There was MatteTrance lipstick in a metal tube with gold sculpted lips in the center, like Salvador Dal\u00ed\u2019s lipstick from 1983. Her Mothership eye shadow palettes held 10 richly pigmented formulas for $125. Skin Fetish: Sublime Perfection Foundation won multiple awards and five-star reviews.Ms. McGrath\u2019s company created lavish products, but applying them could be complex.Credit...Ben Rosser\/BFA.com, via Shutterstock; David M. Benett\/Getty Images; Tiffany Sage\/BFA, via ShutterstockIn 2016, Pat McGrath Labs entered an exclusive relationship with Sephora. The retailer is partial to independent, founder-led brands \u2014 and if that brand pledges its loyalty, Sephora rewards it with its institutional knowledge, almost as if it were incubating a start-up.The game works like this: Sephora steers the new brand with frequent check-ins. It bestows prime shelf space while giving the brand time to ramp up. It offers promotional emails and prominent placement on Sephora.com. And it all goes swimmingly until it doesn\u2019t.\u201cIt\u2019s relatively easy to get to the $20 million threshold,\u201d said Davin Staats, the global head of beauty and personal care at Lazard, a financial advisory and asset management firm. \u201cAnd then you\u2019re off to the races. It\u2019s like printing money.\u201d Reaching $50 million in sales, however, is another matter entirely. At Sephora, Mr. Staats added, \u201cif a brand doesn\u2019t get significant scale quickly, it will actually get lost in the organization. You wither.\u201dPat McGrath Labs started missing deadlines and canceling some product introductions altogether. Soon, Sephora turned its prized shelf space to other, brighter new things.And then Pat McGrath Labs did something that bewildered industry experts: It broke its exclusive with Sephora by striking a deal with Ulta. And, poof, there went the favored status at Sephora.Ulta, a cosmetics retailer with headquarters in the Midwest and the genial corporate ethos to prove it, is an unusual choice for fashion-driven makeup. The chain attracts a price-conscious consumer, offering frequent discounts \u2014 not necessarily the best fit for a foundation called Skin Fetish.The move brought added complexity to Ms. McGrath\u2019s company. And managing distribution and deadlines was never its strong suit.Top, Ms. McGrath with Marc Pritchard, then Procter & Gamble\u2019s global president for cosmetics, in 2004, when she became the company\u2019s beauty creative design director. Above, Ms. McGrath appeared at a \u201cStar Wars\u201d event at the time of a Pat McGrath Labs collaboration with Lucasfilm.Credit...Keith Smith\/Penske Media, via Getty Images; David M. Benett\/Getty ImagesIt was sometimes late on trends \u2014 mystifyingly, given its founder\u2019s immersion in cutting-edge fashion \u2014 missing the moment when contour and blush were popular and instead doubling down on eye shadow palettes. When tastes changed during the Covid-19 pandemic, from show-off-y colors to neutrals, Pat McGrath Labs produced makeup better suited to clubs than 8 a.m. Zoom calls. The Mothership was taking on water.Ms. McGrath is, more than anything, a creature of fashion, devoted to the runway and forsaking all else. She once said her favorite restaurant in Paris was the Ritz hotel (in other words, room service). She has been spotted at the Original Mayr Medical Resort, a spa in Austria where guests eat in silence, chewing each bite of buckwheat roll 40 times.In fashion, practicality is the ultimate sin. If you want to insult a designer, call a collection \u201cwearable\u201d or, worse, \u201ccommercial.\u201d But to be successful in the beauty business, you have to sell a lot of lipsticks to a lot of people; it\u2019s a volume play. And in that way, Pat McGrath Labs seemed ill equipped. Ms. McGrath\u2019s Instagram and TikTok videos seem inspired by Fellini, not Nancy Meyers.A Different ApproachMeanwhile, another makeup artist from the fashion world was managing to capture the everyday shopper. Charlotte Tilbury started her brand one year before Ms. McGrath. Two roads diverged in a wood and all that. Ms. Tilbury took the one more traveled by.Ms. Tilbury, also English, also peppers her conversation with \u201cdarling\u201d and \u201csweetheart,\u201d along with quippy phrases that sound as if they were lifted directly from your mom\u2019s Pinterest board (\u201cEvery woman deserves a man to ruin her lipstick, not her mascara\u201d). Her makeup isn\u2019t a demonstration of artistry; it\u2019s an invitation to self-mastery. At Sephora, Tilbury products were organized as makeup wardrobes with names including \u201cThe Uptown Girl\u201d and \u201cThe Queen of Glow.\u201d Shoppers could pluck several items for the whole look, a clever way to maximize sales.ImageCharlotte Tilbury, whose makeup line has tripled its revenues in recent years.Credit...Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet for The New York TimesMs. Tilbury started her brand with a trusted operational partner who put together a business plan, budgets and unsexy things like infrastructure. And it worked. In 2020, the fashion and beauty giant Puig acquired a majority stake in Charlotte Tilbury. Since then, Puig says, the brand has more than tripled its revenues.While Charlotte Tilbury was rising, Ms. McGrath was creating viral moments unattached to her products. The ultimate example was the glass-skin makeup for a Maison Margiela fashion show in January 2024. Fans who wanted to recreate the effect at home were frustrated that Pat McGrath Labs didn\u2019t have any products to satisfy the demand.Ms. McGrath told Vogue that she had achieved the glassy finish by piling on skin care masks. Unfortunately, she waited a year to release the Glass 001 Artistry Mask. Who can remember what happened a year ago on a fashion runway? The viral moment had passed.Ms. McGrath was instrumental in the looks of Doja Cat, top, at a Schiaparelli couture show in 2023 and the porcelain-style models on a Maison Margiela runway in 2024.Credit...Simbarashe Cha\/The New York TimesHead-ScratchersFor all of Ms. McGrath\u2019s couture high-mindedness, there were some lower-brow moments. She created two \u201cStar Wars\u201d collections and a tie-in to the Netflix romance \u201cBridgerton.\u201d In 2025 came a head-scratcher: a collaboration with Candy Crush, in red-and-white candy cane packaging. Ms. McGrath announced that three $10,000 ruby and diamond rings were hidden in boxes of makeup, a stunt that struck some as gimmicky.Then there was the matter of the missing red lipstick during Ms. Swift\u2019s Eras Tour. Several executives who were then working at the company suggested that late payments to vendors made it more difficult to get the makeup on the shelves. Competitors released videos describing how to duplicate Ms. Swift\u2019s look with their own products.Pat McGrath Labs wasn\u2019t alone in its struggles. According to Mr. Staats, the Lazard banker, the entire makeup industry is suffering. Est\u00e9e Lauder is looking for a buyer for Too Faced and Smashbox. Glossier, Makeup by Mario and Westman Atelier haven\u2019t found buyers; and Anastasia Soare of Anastasia Beverly Hills bought back her shares from investors and is restructuring.Eurazeo, the early investor in Pat McGrath Cosmetics, exited the brand in 2021, and Sienna Investment Managers put in $204 million. From there, the company\u2019s performance declined. \u201cOnce you get the sense that a brand is tarnished, it\u2019s hard to get rid of that tarnish,\u201d Mr. Staats said.In August, there was some good news for Ms. McGrath herself, if not for her company. Louis Vuitton announced that she was the new creative director for its lipsticks and eye shadows. But the move was puzzling. \u201cThe fact that, having her own brand, she would go to creative direct another \u2014 I didn\u2019t understand that,\u201d said Ms. Moore, of the Savannah College of Art and Design.Was Ms. McGrath distancing herself from her company, shifting her allegiances back to luxury fashion? Some industry watchers believed that LVMH, the luxury giant that owns Louis Vuitton, might bring Pat McGrath Labs under its umbrella. That hasn\u2019t happened. Perhaps she had grown weary of running a business and welcomed the chance to return to what she does best: creating impeccable makeup colors and textures.ImageMs. McGrath at a Louis Vuitton event in Paris in 2024.Credit...Arnold Jerocki\/Getty ImagesWith all she has achieved \u2014 the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (you may address her as Dame Pat), Time\u2019s 100 Most Influential People of 2019 \u2014 Ms. McGrath had certainly earned the right to relax. But as Pat McGrath Labs entered its first month under bankruptcy protection, Ms. McGrath signaled that she was committed to her brand, saying in a statement: \u201cThis Chapter 11 will enable me to remain in the driver\u2019s seat and keep the company\u2019s vision focused.\u201dAs if predicting the future, Ms. McGrath said in an interview in 2016: \u201cThe one thing about fashion, you\u2019re only as good as 30 days ago or an hour ago. I\u2019m always nervous, because I know you always want to, in a way, push back, do something outside the norm.\u201d And while her brand is far from basic, it now risks looking a bit stale to trendsetters.\u201cIt\u2019s very sad,\u201d Mr. Demsey, the beauty consultant, said. Ms. McGrath is, \u201cwithout question, the most important, talented makeup artist of modern times,\u201d he added. \u201cThere is no one that has had a greater influence on the fusion of fashion, beauty and rethinking makeup looks in truly creative and unconventional ways.\u201dAnd maybe that wasn\u2019t enough. Maybe that was the problem.A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 12, 2026, Section D, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: How a Promising Cosmetic Brand Fell Into Bankruptcy. Order Reprints | Today\u2019s Paper | SubscribeSee more on: Sephora, Louis Vuitton, Taylor SwiftShare full articleRelated ContentAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT", "ai_headline": "How a Promising Cosmetic Brand Fell Into Bankruptcy", "ai_simplified_title": "Pat McGrath Cosmetics Files Bankruptcy Amidst Industry Struggles", "ai_excerpt": "Pat McGrath Labs, a cosmetics brand founded by renowned makeup artist Pat McGrath, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 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Taylor SwiftThe Wedding: What We KnowβThe End of an Eraβ DocuseriesβThe Life of a Showgirlβ ReviewAlbum Breaks Adeleβs Sales RecordWhen you close your eyes and picture Taylor Swift, you may envision her bright red lipsticked mouth before any other detail comes into focus. Ms. Swift wore that red lipstick throughout her Eras Tour. She planted a kiss on her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, after the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl in 2024, and the lipstick didnβt smear on his sweaty face. Ms. Swift, who has refrained from endorsing products in recent years, did not reveal which brand of lipstick she was wearing. But swarms of online commenters decided it had to be Pat McGrath Labs LiquiLust in Elson 4. After all, Ms. Swift had signaled her approval of the brand when Pat McGrath herself appeared in the video for her song βBejeweled,β playing a queen who applies makeup to the starβs face.If a company tried to engineer this kind of promotion, the fee would reach several million dollars. But w...
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Makeup , Social Media π a1166844-29b0-48b8-93b6-7c09b2b487b3Simplified: Online commenters decided Taylor Swift's lipstick was Pat McGrath Labs LiquiLust in Elson 4
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If a company tried to engineer this kind of promotion, the fee would reach several million dollars.0.800π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Business , Marketing π a1166844-806e-4a92-9002-76d89ab41cf9Simplified: A company would pay several million dollars for this kind of promotion
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Business , Bankruptcy π a1166844-be62-436e-a1af-792cb408ff99Simplified: Pat McGrath Cosmetics filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Jan 22 to simplify its capital structure reduce its debt load and unlock the poten...
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Simplified: Pat McGrath spent her childhood with her single Jamaican mother Jean a dressmaker
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π€ The author π News Article π a1166846-6dd0-47f2-9b4d-62bc61997c7eSimplified: She named it Gold 001 left it in its plastic lab-sample compact and sold it with a liquid activator
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π€ The author π News Article π a1166846-90c3-4f04-96bb-f1569c7e5143Simplified: The $40 kit sold out in minutes
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π€ The author π News Article π a1166846-b4ac-4a8f-970a-b3c9bfc9c844Simplified: The $72 kits included a double-sided stick with a balm on one end and a silver or gold highlighter on the other plus a wafer of pressed gel that looke...
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π€ The author π News Article π a1166846-d4a0-4876-9bf4-d1457cfef66fSimplified: In 2018 investors came courting
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π€ The author π News Article π a1166846-f7f4-4143-a661-41dad3964e58Simplified: Eurazeo Brands invested $60 million valuing the brand at more than $1 billion even though its sales were estimated at only $40 million
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π€ The author π News Article π a1166847-1cee-45e5-ab01-8b1adffc16a2Simplified: In 2016 Pat McGrath Labs entered an exclusive relationship with Sephora
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Simplified: Reaching $50 million in sales is another matter
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If a brand doesnβt get significant scale quickly, it will actually get lost in the organization.0.900π€ Mr. Staats π News Article π·οΈ Business , Marketing π a1166847-7ef3-4166-b0fa-c293c738f536Simplified: A brand will get lost in the organization if it doesnβt get significant scale quickly
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Pat McGrath Labs started missing deadlines and canceling some product introductions altogether.0.900Simplified: Pat McGrath Labs started missing deadlines and canceling product introductions
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Simplified: Sephora turned its prized shelf space to other new things
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Simplified: Ulta is an unusual choice for fashion-driven makeup
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Simplified: Managing distribution and deadlines was never Pat McGrath Labs' strong suit
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Simplified: Ms. McGrath was instrumental in Doja Cat's looks at a Schiaparelli couture show in 2023
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Simplified: Charlotte Tilbury started her brand one year before Ms. McGrath
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Simplified: Since 2020 Charlotte Tilbury has more than tripled its revenues
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Simplified: Ms. McGrath waited a year to release the Glass 001 Artistry Mask
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π€ Several executives π News Article π·οΈ Business π a116684b-1c34-4a82-9682-7f02bcd0205bSimplified: Late payments to vendors made it more difficult to get the makeup on the shelves
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Simplified: Investment Managers put in $204 million
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Simplified: Company performance declined
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Simplified: August brought good news for Ms McGrath
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Louis Vuitton announced that she was the new creative director for its lipsticks and eye shadows.1.000Simplified: Louis Vuitton announced Ms McGrath was new creative director for lipsticks and eye shadows
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Simplified: Ms McGrath signaled commitment to her brand
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Simplified: Ms McGrath said fashion is only as good as 30 days or an hour ago