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DIED. GEORGETTE KLINGER, 88, fashionable skin-care pioneer of the 1940s whose European facial techniques laid the basis for today's multibillion-dollar spa industry; in New York City. Born in what is now the Czech Republic, she fought acne as a child and began experimenting with her own cures when traditional dermatology treatments failed. Her view that the face is something to be treated rather than just decorated inspired a revolution in cosmetic skin care...
...South Side, Regina Hatcher had dry, strawlike hair--the price she paid for chemically straightening it. But one Sunday, the African-American security officer, 35, received a tip from a friend whose daughter had turned to the center, formally called the L'Oreal Institute for Ethnic Hair and Skin Research, for help following a disastrous perm. "They got her hair back more healthy and shiny," said Hatcher, who promptly booked an appointment for herself--hoping that L'Oreal's stylists and researchers, armed with a vast array of shampoos, conditioners and gels, could also sort out her tresses. The result...
...answer could be worth a pretty penny for L'Oreal. Over the past decade, the world's largest cosmetics concern has transformed itself from a French company focused on white women into a global titan whose skin, hair and cosmetics products are tailored to consumers from Dallas to Delhi. L'Oreal has a strategic gift for taking cosmetics brands, giving them an innovation injection and a marketing makeover, and then rolling them out across the world: antiaging potions for American boomers or lipsticks for young Chinese. L'Oreal is even working on beauty from the inside out: how about...
Although many consumers know it for skin-care products like Plenitude, L'Oreal had its origins in hair care. In 1907 French chemist Eugene Schueller developed a line of synthetic hair dyes, known as L'Aureale, or Halo, and started selling them to Parisian hair stylists. Almost a century later, Schueller's once tiny company presides over a host of high-profile beauty names such as Lancome and Garnier. The company's top 14 global brands account for more than 90% of its $14.3 billion in consumer sales...
...still lives at home and would like to buy rouge or lipstick; to an imaginary Mrs. Li, who is in her late 20s and has a good job and some disposable income; and to the thirtysomething prototype Mrs. Wong, married, with one child, and more inclined to use skin care than makeup. Even the type of transport is factored in--L'Oreal reckons that if Miss Yu rides in a car, she's probably a Lancome consumer, but if she rides a bicycle, she's made for Maybelline...