After 41 years in business, creating iconic makeup products used by professional MUAs and makeup users alike, MAC Cosmetics will now be available in Sephora. MAC Cosmetics operates over 500 independent, professional-artist-run stores worldwide and sells in more than 120 countries. In the United States, there are roughly 92 dedicated M·A·C stores. Starting in early 2026, the brand is expanding significantly to over 500 Sephora stores in the U.S. and online.

Demetra Pinsent, CEO of Charlotte Tilbury, has left the brand. After 14 years at the beauty company, Pinsent was instrumental in turning the namesake celebrity makeup artist’s side project and founder-led startup into the global makeup label it is, now owned by Puig.

Just one week after the $1.2 billion acquisition of Depop, eBay has announced layoffs of about 800 employees. The cuts affect about 6% of the company’s global workforce and have been framed as restructuring and consolidation, even in the growing resale category.

Oura Ring has launched a female-focused AI health chatbot, marking a first for the wearables industry. Built specifically for women’s health concerns, the AI is designed to personalize wellness guidance around cycles, hormones, sleep and recovery. In the health industry, which has long underserved the female half of the population in tech and research, Oura is further connecting with wellness’s primary consumer.

Croissant, the fashion resale pricing app, has raised $28 million in new funding. Driving over $50 million in gross merchandise volume (GMV) across more than 100,000 users. Croissant partners with brands and retailers, including Nordstrom, Revolve, Reformation, SSENSE, and many more.

Lily Collins will play Audrey Hepburn in a movie about the making of the iconic “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” The film will be based on Sam Wasson’s best-selling Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the Dawn of the Modern Woman, which tells the behind-the-scenes of production.

On the first Monday in May, the 2026 Met Gala will be celebrating the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute spring exhibition, “Costume Art.” As the intentionally derivative dress code is “Fashion is Art,” there will be even more intrigue as we tune in to what the celebrities, public figures and fashion’s brightest will arrive to the red carpet wearing. The 2026 co-chairs for the gala are Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and Anna Wintour, and members of the Gala Host Committee—co-chaired by Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz—include Sabrina Carpenter, Alex Consani, Misty Copeland, Elizabeth Debicki, Lena Dunham, LISA, Chloe Malle, A’ja Wilson, and Yseult. The lead sponsors of the event and exhibition will be Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos.

Sofia Franklin, former Call Her Daddy co-host, announced her memoir “Daddy Issues,” set to be released on November 10th, published by Simon & Schuster. After starting the Barstool Sports podcast with Alex Cooper in 2018 and exiting in 2020, there has been much speculation about the messy internet breakup.

TIME has announced the 2026 Women of the Year, featuring 16 leaders working toward a better, more equitable world. Grammy nominee, Golden Globe winner, and Oscar frontrunner, Teyana Taylor is the list’s coverstar.

Kim Kardashian has become a co-founder of UPDATE energy drink. Originally founded in 2022, the energy drink uses paraxanthine, the compound the human body naturally forms from caffeine, eliminating the crash that comes from caffeine itself. Kardashian began using the product in 2023, and she started offering unsolicited advice, which led to the eventual partnership.

The head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, argued that 16 hours of app use does not equal an addiction. This comment came out as he was defending the app in a California court against claims that it caused mental health damage to minors.

The US Federal appeals court made a decision that ended a years-long feud in the boutique fitness community. In July 2022, Tracy Anderson, founder of the TA Method, filed a copyright suit against Megan Roup of The Sculpt Society, claiming that similar dance-cardio sequences infringed on the copyrights as a “choreographed acts” but the Ninth Circuit made a decisive ruling in favor of Roup that the TA Method is, by Anderson’s own description, a results-driven fitness methodology – and therefore, an unprotectable process or system. This decision makes it clear to fitness entrepreneurs that branding a workout as proprietary, scientific, or even choreographed will not make a functional exercise system into protectable works.

The European Union finalized its rollback of environment, social, and governance (ESG) reporting and supply chain diligence rules, reducing the number of companies required to comply with the sustainability efforts. This reversal of legislation that was holding fashion brands accountable lets mid-sized brands off the hook on transparency and is a step back from Europe, which was supposed to be a big player in fashion’s sustainability push.

Less than five months after the movie-like heist at the Louvre shook everything we thought about the world’s largest museum and its security, the director in charge has resigned. Laurence des Cars, the first female president of the Louvre Museum, says she had called attention to security weaknesses before the burglary and defends her record as director of the museum, even as her tenure was marked by labor strikes, water leaks, and a ticket scam.