MILAN — Cosmoprof will celebrate its 40th birthday with an early opening to the beauty fair’s key pavilions in Bologna on Thursday.
The show will open the doors to Beauty Landscapes, which houses selective perfumery and cosmetic brands, a day earlier than the rest of the exhibition, which kicks off on March 30.
Beauty Landscapes, located in Pavilion 16-18, will run on simultaneous dates with Cosmopack (Pavilion 19-20) from March 29 to April 1, closing one day earlier than the rest of Cosmoprof.
Staggering the dates gave the four different areas of the show — perfumery-cosmetics, hair salons, beauty salons and cosmetic packaging — more defined identities, said Luca Franzoni, marketing manager of Sogecos, which organizes Cosmoprof.
“Cosmoprof is a gigantic fair,” said Franzoni. “We felt that the areas have different souls and there was more synergy between the cosmetic packaging and perfumery and cosmetics sections, so with the backing of exhibitors in the perfumery and cosmetics area, we changed the dates.”
Further uniting the two areas, Sogecos has constructed an elevated bridge link between Pavilion 16-18 and Pavilion 19-20.
First launched in 1967, Cosmoprof’s Bologna edition has evolved into an enormous beauty fair. This year’s edition includes 2,176 exhibitors, who occupy more than 923,673 square feet of space.
Though not many changes have been made to the fair’s layout, for the second year running, Beauty Landscapes will feature Beauty on Stage — a theater-like space where nine prestigious selective beauty brands showcase new launches in tailor-made events. Newcomers to the arena include Puig, Procter & Gamble and Selective Beauty. Selective Beauty, which holds fragrance distribution licenses for Trussardi and MaxMara, among other fashion brands, plans on previewing Trussardi’s spring-summer 2007 collection in a catwalk show to commemorate the launch of the brand’s Trussardi Inside fragrance.
Further celebrations for the 40-year-old beauty show include the launch of a book, “Bellezza — 40 Years of Beauty through the Eyes of Cosmoprof,” set to be unveiled on Thursday. The book is a collection of photographs of objects from the International Perfumery Museum in Grasse, selected by Thierry de Baschmakoff, the noted cosmetics packaging designer.
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A host of beauty executives, including Chantal Roos, president and chief executive officer of YSL Beauté; Philippe Benacin, ceo of Inter Parfums SA, and Patrick Ales, ceo of Ales Groupe, attended the religious ceremony, which paid tribute to Courtin-Clarins, a visionary in the beauty industry. Clarins executives — both past and present — were in attendance as well. So were Courtin-Clarins’ sons, Christian and Olivier, who are the currently the company’s president and ceo, and vice president of research and development, respectively.
During the ceremony, Olivier Courtin-Clarins read a passage that advised attendees to laugh as they always had. But many found that hard to do so soon after Courtin-Clarins’ passing.
“We have lost our father,” said a spokeswoman for Clarins’ Most Dynamic Women program, which was created by Jacques Courtin-Clarins to support children’s charities run by women around the world.
Clarins’ headquarters was closed for the day Tuesday so that staff could attend the service held at the Eglise Saint-Pierre in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.