NEST New York, a leading fragrance lifestyle brand, has announced the appointment of Edgar Huber as Chief Executive Officer. Huber brings to NEST more than 30 years of executive leadership experience at several leading consumer products companies managing some of the most recognizable brand names in global apparel, beauty, and lifestyle.

Huber most recently served as Global Chief Commercial Officer of Consumer Beauty, Luxury, and Professional Beauty Products at Coty, Inc., and, prior to that, as President of Coty Luxury, during which time the company became the worldwide leader in prestige fragrances. Before joining Coty, Huber served as President and CEO of the iconic American lifestyle brand Lands’ End from 2011 to 2015. Beginning in 1992, he worked at L’Oréal for more than 15 years in various brand and market leadership positions managing a portfolio of global beauty brands that included Lancôme, Kiehl’s Since 1851, YSL Beauty, Giorgio Armani Cosmetics, Ralph Lauren Fragrances, and Viktor & Rolf. Huber started his career at Mars, Inc.

“I am very excited to join NEST New York and partner with its Founder Laura Slaktin, the talented NEST team, and lead investor groups North Castle Partners and Eurazeo to expand this beautiful brand to its full global potential,” said Edgar Huber. “As a longtime admirer and customer of the brand, I have had my eye on it for many years. NEST has become a deeply beloved, sought-after brand that is uniquely positioned in the fragrance market to attract and delight new customers all over the world.”

“To say that I feel privileged and honored to welcome Edgar Huber as NEST’s next CEO is a broad understatement,” said Laura Slatkin, Founder and Executive Chairman of NEST New York. “Edgar is a strategic and highly respected business leader whose impressive experience, global gravitas, and proven track record will surely put NEST on the fast track to achieving our ambitious growth plan. I am very much looking forward to partnering closely with Edgar as we embark on this journey together.”

Huber succeeds Maria Dempsey who served as CEO of NEST since January 2019 and departs the company for a new opportunity. Commenting on Dempsey’s tenure as CEO, Slatkin said, “I am very grateful to have had the experience of working with Maria Dempsey. Under her leadership, company revenues more than doubled and NEST became a stronger, more profitable brand with an enviable company culture in which our employees feel supported, appreciated, and inspired. I wish her all the best in her future endeavors.”

“We are thrilled to partner with Edgar who brings his extraordinary experience and capabilities to the NEST organization as we execute on a shared vision to grow the brand into an international fragrance powerhouse,” said Hemanshu Patel, Partner at North Castle Partners. “He is highly regarded as a values-based leader who we believe complements Laura and the existing team extremely well.”

Huber is a Senior Advisor at Blackstone Group and a Board Director at Supergoop! He earned a Master of Business Administration from Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Vienna, Austria, and holds management-related certificates from the HEC Paris International Management Program, the INSEAD and CEDEP General Management Program, and the Senior Leadership Program at Harvard Business School. Huber lives in the New York City area with his wife and daughter.

The post NEST NEW YORK NAMES EDGAR HUBER CEO appeared first on The Beauty Influencers.

Guests included Nest’s Laura Slatkin and Maria Dempsey, Luxe Brands’ Noreen Dodge, The Fragrance Foundation’s Linda Levy, TruBeauty’s Mark Magliaro, Inter Parfums’ Baerbel Bureick, Forma Brands’ Regina Maguire and others.

Robertet’s Piero Savio and Pierre Wulff with guests.

Robertet Perfumer Jerome Epinette and guests.

“Men’s and women’s dress dating from the eighteenth century to the present will be featured in vignettes installed in select period rooms spanning ca. 1805 to 1915: a Shaker Retiring Room from the 1830s; a nineteenth-century parlor from Richmond, Virginia; a panoramic 1819 mural of Versailles; and a twentieth-century living room designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, among others. These interiors display a survey of more than two hundred years of American domestic life and tell a variety of stories—from the personal to the political, the stylistic to the cultural, and the aesthetic to the ideological. The exhibition will reflect on these narratives through a series of three-dimensional cinematic “freeze frames” produced in collaboration with notable American film directors. These mise-en-scènes  explore the role of dress in shaping American identity and address the complex and layered histories of the rooms,” according to The Metropolitan Museum’s web site.

Directors featured included: Tom Ford, Radha Blank, Janicza Bravo, Sofia Coppola, Autumn de Wilde, Julie Dash, Regina King, Martin Scorsese, and Chloé Zhao.

One of the most spectacular rooms, conceived by Tom Ford, depicts fashion’s “Battle of Versailles” —where the French and American designers faced off in 1973 in a so-called battle fundraiser to benefit the restoration of Louis XIV’s palace.

A scene staged by film director Martin Scorsese featuring fashions by designer Charles James and a room by architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

The exhibition closes in September. For more information , please visit MetMuseum.org

The post Robertet Hosts Private Tour of Anthology of Fashion Exhibition at The Met appeared first on The Beauty Influencers.