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In this week’s Luxury Briefing, Glossy digs into Haute Couture Week in Paris with luxury sourcer Gab Waller, designer Rahul Mishra and Bain senior partner Federica Levato — the brands taking part are increasingly looking to younger customers as their next long-term clients, the sources said. Also, why Pandora and Levi’s chose the event to launch new collaborations, and executive moves at Tory Burch. For tips or comments, email me at zofia@glossy.co.

Okamoto said she first connected with Pie founder Andy Dunn when he invested in August. She began using Pie as a member of its creator network to organize meet-ups for her Zoomie’s run club when the app launched in New York City in 2026. “I was searching for a better community organizing tool that didn’t require me to, sort of, puzzle-piece [together] six different apps for different communication lines and functions,” said Okamoto.

The expansion follows a short pilot that began in January across Ulta’s four Wellness by Ulta Beauty boutique locations. In the wider 448-store rollout, Stripes will be merchandised as a dedicated brand assortment within Ulta’s existing wellness sections, with more prominent display units expected later this year. Stripes president and CEO Cara Kamenev said both companies entered the pilot expecting the brand to eventually reach a wider store network.

In short, LightSpray turns the production of a shoe’s upper into a compact robotic process, cutting out much of the sewing and manual assembly that has kept footwear manufacturing concentrated in Asia. At a press event at On’s Zurich headquarters in June, the company demonstrated LightSpray’s use of a robotic arm to spray 1.5 kilometers of thermoplastic filament in a tornado-like pattern around a shoe-shaped form.

On July 13, the brand will launch its new Red Carpet Skin Luminous Foundation in 38 shades, as well as a foundation brush called the Evolving Face Brush, for $46 and $36, respectively. Vanngo described the formula as a lightweight serum foundation, with users only needing a few drops for medium-to-full coverage. It’s packed in a small, lightweight plastic bottle that users shake before using.

Overall, the 51-year-old company has been opening around 20 stores per year for the last two years, and it plans to continue that trend over the next two or three years. It’s paying off. Garage parent company Groupe Dynamite has seen its profits soar over the last two years, from $27 million last year to $51 million now, and its annual revenue is well over $1 billion. In its most recent earnings call, the company reported a 37% increase in year-over-year revenue.

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“Butter Bronzer was such a key product back in 2016. Like, I have so many core memories around the 2016 YouTube beauty era involving this product,” said Hill, who became one of YouTube’s largest beauty creators after launching her channel in 2011. The anniversary campaign marks the first time Hill has worked with Physicians Formula on a paid partnership.

While just two years old, community wellness meetup group Coffee & Chill has quickly created a blueprint for brands to authentically reach hundreds of young, engaged wellness consumers. It’s doing so through in-person events in Los Angeles, Miami, Austin, New York and San Diego. “Our value prop from the beginning, the reason we started and why we still do it today, is really to bring people together over health and wellness,” Coffee & Chill co-founder Blake Waller told Glossy.

Bandit’s focus on core running communities has helped it grow enough to start expanding outward — that has included partnering with big brands like Asics, sponsoring major races like the Chicago and London Marathons, and, most recently, hosting its own races. In May, Bandit hosted the Bandit Grand Prix in Brooklyn. The event, featuring multiple 5K and 3K races around a Brooklyn warehouse throughout the day, drew thousands of attendees from 21 countries.