Tom Ford Expands His Beauty Collection

Products from the Tom Ford Beauty collection

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Tom Ford sets out to redefine the world of prestige beauty with the launch of his expanded color collection in September.
With five FIFI awards under his belt, total Tom Ford Beauty global retail sales estimated at $150 million, a strong debut of his lip color collection (retail sales of $6 million in just 100 stores!), plus a resurgence in consumers' appetite for luxury products, the time is right for Mr. Ford and Estée Lauder Cos. Inc. to expand.

Here are the deets for the beauty mavens:

• The color cosmetics collection will have 132 products, including six skin care products, ranging in price from $30 to $250
• The collection includes contouring products Shade and Illuminate cream duet, heavily pigmented lip glosses like Lost Cherry and caligraphy tip brow pens
• Skin care products include Traceless Foundation Stick, Illuminating Protective Primer, Purifying Crème Cleanser and Intensive Infusion Concentrate Extreme, which is an oil-based serum.
• The Private Blend Lip Color Collection includes 18 shades (up from 12) and will retail at $48
• Two new Private Blend Collection fragrances: Santal Blush and Jasmine Rouge priced from $195 to $475
• A new Signature Collection fragrance: Violet Blonde.

Keeping in line with Mr. Ford's exclusivity mantra, the new color line will only be in 35 doors worldwide, and sold in Tom Ford stores, Berdorf Goodman, and select Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue stores in the U.S.. Overseas, Italy’s La Rinascente and the U.K.’s Harvey Nichols and Selfridges will carry the line. A rollout in Asia is planned within 18 months of its launch.

The lip color and new fragrances will have a slightly wider global distribution -- 100 and 225 doors respectively -- and will be sold in the aforementioned stores, as well as Nordstrom and Bloomingdales. In the U.S., Saks will get a four-week exclusive on Violet Blonde in August before the fragrance is rolled out to other stores.

Industry sources estimate the line to do $40 million in global retail sales the first year, and $400-$500 million globally in five years.

(SOURCE: Estée Lauder Puts Together a Prestige Brand - WWD)