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Jessie Buckley Channels Grace Kelly in Chanel to Win Her Oscar

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7 months ago

March 16, 2026

Jessie Buckley won her Oscar dressed in conversation with Oscar history. At the 98th Academy Awards, held Sunday, March 15 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood and hosted by Conan O’Brien, Buckley took home the Best Actress prize for Hamnet wearing a bespoke Chanel gown by Matthieu Blazy — a look that V Magazine’s best-dressed roundup singled out the following day, and that Vogue’s Run-Through panel paired with Michael B. Jordan’s win as the night’s “chic and deserving winners” of the top acting prizes.

The gown worked in two tones: a red silk and pink chiffon off-the-shoulder design, described by V Magazine as a light pink bustier chiffon dress with a red satin stole that added just enough contrast. Buckley completed the look with Chanel fine jewelry, with Page Six likewise crediting Chanel for her dress, shoes and jewelry in pink and red. The softness of the palette was the point — restraint, executed at the highest level of the house’s craft.

The reference underneath it gave the look its resonance. InStyle noted that the gown gorgeously referenced Grace Kelly’s famous 1956 Oscars gown — and the rhyme was exact: Kelly won the same Best Actress prize in that look seventy years earlier, and she remains one of the defining style icons in Academy Awards history. Buckley’s gown was not a copy but a deliberate conversation with that moment, staged on the night she joined the same winners’ line.

The appearance also capped the season’s defining fashion storyline: Blazy’s Chanel dressed the defining winners across the Golden Globes, the Grammys and now the Oscars. InStyle ranked Buckley fourth on its Oscars best-dressed list of 25, on a carpet where feathers were the dominant trend — worn by Teyana Taylor, Nicole Kidman, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Best Supporting Actress winner Amy Madigan. On Hollywood’s biggest night, the winning look looked seventy years back — and moved the whole season forward.

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L’Oréal Powers Past the Beauty Market: €35.33 Billion in Nine Months as Salon and Derm Brands Lead

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4 days ago

October 22, 2026

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The world’s largest beauty company is growing faster than the market it leads. L’Oréal reported sales of €35.33 billion for the first nine months of 2026, up 6.9% like-for-like and 7.7% as reported, in a statement released on October 22. Third-quarter sales reached €11.56 billion, up 7.2% like-for-like.

CEO Nicolas Hieronimus called it “an exceptional third quarter,” saying the global beauty market “once again proved its resilience” and that L’Oréal “continued to significantly outpace it” — company commentary put the wider market’s growth at roughly 5% for the quarter.

The quarter’s heavy lifting came from the group’s two professional-facing divisions. Professional Products — home to Kérastase, Redken and L’Oréal Professionnel — sold €1,469.1 million in Q3, up 12.1% like-for-like, while Dermatological Beauty (La Roche-Posay, CeraVe, SkinCeuticals) sold €1,871.6 million, up 12.2%. L’Oréal Luxe added €4,176.6 million (+6.4%) and Consumer Products €4,044.3 million (+4.3%), as fragrances and haircare drove growth, skincare continued to accelerate, and e-commerce sales grew around 17% — well ahead of the online beauty market.

The brand highlights told the same story. Kérastase grew double-digit, powered by Gloss Absolu, Genesis and Chronologiste; La Roche-Posay launched Mela B3 Double-Dose and Anthelios UV Air; Yves Saint Laurent’s Libre and MYSLF fragrances grew double-digit; and the newly acquired fragrance house Creed performed strongly.

Regionally, SAPMENA-SSA was the standout at +19.2% like-for-like, followed by Europe at +9.9% and North Asia at +7.8%; North America grew 2.2% (5.6% adjusted), and Latin America was the only region to decline, down 1.0%. During the period L’Oréal also closed its acquisition of a majority stake in Innovist, a digital-first Indian personal care house of brands — a results statement that underlines a simple point: at €35 billion in nine months, L’Oréal is not just leading the beauty business, it is widening the gap.