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All Woman Project x BABOR launch unretouched campaign – the first ever for luxury skincare

 

All Woman Project x BABOR are introducing a limited-edition collaboration celebrating the true beauty that lies in empowerment and diversity with an unretouched campaign – the first ever for luxury skincare.

All Woman Project x BABOR skincare- 2018 collaboration

Luxury professional skincare brand BABOR has unveiled its first ever North American collaboration, partnering with All Woman Project, a non profit organization dedicated to helping girls and women worldwide feel positive, empowered, and confident about themselves regardless of age, shape, or race. BABOR is supporting the initiative with a limited-edition AWP x BABOR Beauty Ampoule Set.

The All Woman Project x BABOR collaboration celebrates the beauty of diversity while raising awareness and support for empowering women. BABOR will donate 50% of sales from the collaborative Beauty Ampoule Set to The All Woman Project.

The campaign is featuring a diverse group of inspiring women, including models, activists, mothers, designers, editors, and more. These women showcase a diverse range of beauty that is not retouched or Photoshopped.

The AWPxBABOR Beauty Ampoule Set features seven highly concentrated, natural active beauty boosters sealed in a powerful, single dose glass ampoule that creates immediate, visible results. The AWPxBABOR set includes four Hydra Plus Active Fluid Ampoules, loaded with hyaluronic acid and a plant-based moisturizer, and three Active Night Fluid Ampoules that work during the deep sleep phase to restore and rejuvenate with black willow bark, extracts of black algae, and black truffle. The limited-edition set – meant to empower women at any age to have their best skin retails for $40.

All Woman Project x BABOR

 

Clé de Peau Beauté luxury beauty brand relaunched with ambassador Felicity Jones


The SHISEIDO Group’s prestigious brand Clé de Peau Beauté hosted a global press and influencer event on Wednesday, January 17th at Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles to announce their new Global Brand Face, Academy-Award nominated actress Felicity Jones and relaunch the high-end beauty brand with a new multi-channel global campaign.

 

Clé de Peau Beauté Celebrates Their SS18 Collection and A Radiant Day campaign
Clé de Peau Beauté Celebrates Their Spring Summer 2018 Collection and A Radiant Day campaign; images: shiseido group

Clé de Peau Beauté (meaning the The Key to Skin’s Beauty), helps to unlock the power of a woman’s radiance by harnessing makeup technologies and some of the most advanced skincare in the world from their proprietary Tokyo laboratories. Clé de Peau Beauté Spring Summer S18 product focus, debuted at the event, showcasing the brand’s expertise, includes Firming Serum Supreme (new), The Lipstick (new shades), Radiant Lip Gloss (new), The Foundation, Concealer and the re-energizing of La Crème – the brand’s iconic, high-performance radiance-enhancing cream.

According to Clé de Peau Beauté, Felicity Jones embodies the brand’s DNA: intelligent, uncompromising and exquisite. Her passion and uncompromising dedication to her craft is what makes her an aspirational personality; a woman who has made an impact on the world and those around her.

Clé de Peau Beauté transformed the Hotel Bel-Air into an expression of radiance and light to celebrate the announcement of Jones as the  new face and Spring/Summer 2018 campaign across digital, social and traditional media.

Clé de Peau Beauté Celebrates the Brand Relaunch with the debut of Global Face, Felicity Jones in Los Angeles

At every turn, guests, including Alana Hadid, Larsen Thompson, Marianna Hewitt and Dylana and Natalie Lim Suarez, discovered snap-able and shareable moments including a visually inspiring floral installation within the entry area on the Terrace, and a Ballroom photo experience that invited guests to step into the heart of Clé de Peau Beauté and “Unlock the Power of Your Radiance” – the brand’s new tagline.

Jones, joined by Yukari Suzuki, Chief Brand Officer, gave a champagne toast, followed by the global debut of the Clé de Peau Beauté Brand Essence video, filmed in Croatia. In addition, the guests experienced the reveal of the Spring/Summer 2018 campaign video, “A Radiant Day”, in which Jones creates a performance that underscores the brand’s new positioning as the leading Global Luxury Beauty brand.

“I am honored to be partnering with Clé de Peau Beauté on relaunching this brilliant luxury brand to the world”, said Jones. “There is such  personality and intelligence behind the brand and products. I cannot wait to see what the future brings to Clé de Peau Beauté.”

“With our relaunch event celebrating Felicity Jones in Los Angeles, we establish that a woman’s beauty is not only about her appearance, it is also about valuing her inner beauty, intelligence and who she is as a person,” said Suzuki.

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