{"id":283607,"date":"2025-10-07T08:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/283607\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T08:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:49:10","slug":"former-beauty-editor-arabelle-sicardi-launches-house-of-beauty-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/283607\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Beauty Editor Arabelle Sicardi Launches &#8216;House of Beauty&#8217; Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMore than 10 years in the making, Arabelle Sicardi\u2019s \u201cThe House of Beauty\u201d has arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe book, a collection of eight essays penned by the former beauty editor that assess the industry and all of its contradictions, is launching Oct. 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tChapters range from a comprehensive dive into the origins of Chanel No.5 to an interactive \u201cChoose Your Own Adventure\u201d portion to myriad analyses of how beauty products and services are sold. The book will be available for $30 at Barnes &amp; Noble, Amazon, Apple Books and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAmong the sentiments explored in \u201cThe House of Beauty\u201d are those that Sicardi hadn\u2019t been able to dive into the same way during their editor days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI had a bucket list of the different stories I would love to write if I wasn\u2019t afraid of getting in trouble due to advertiser dollars, and so I started reporting them on my own terms and they became this book,\u201d said Sicardi, formerly beauty editor at BuzzFeed who now writes the \u201cYou\u2019ve Got Lipstick on Your Chin\u201d Substack newsletter and helms the Perfumed Pages scent event collective, popular among the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/beauty-industry-news\/beauty-features\/ai-influencer-fragrance-perfumetok-backlash-1237984979\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#FragranceTok<\/a> community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSicardi will fete the launch with hybrid book reading\/<a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/beauty-industry-news\/fragrance\/beauty-fragrance-community-enthusiasts-niche-perfumetok-1237913207\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">perfume swap<\/a> events in select cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, wherein attendees can bring fragrances from their collections to connect and trade with others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe community of beauty culture that I wrote this book for didn\u2019t exist 10 years ago when I started,\u201d said Sicardi. \u201cThe way we understand beauty culture now has so much to do with discourse and identity politics and how people feel valued and perceived by brands. The landscape has shifted drastically, and I wrote this book for this version of our conversations \u2014 where we\u2019re having these difficult conversations all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSigned, preorder copies of \u201cThe House of Beauty\u201d are also available at certain bookstores including Books Are Magic in New York and Skylight Books in Los Angeles. Those copies come with bookmarks scented with Jouissance\u2019s powdery Les Cahiers Secrets, which Sicardi wore during much of the editing process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI want anyone who\u2019s ever stepped into a Sephora to read this book; I want people who are gifted perfumes during the holidays because no one knows what to get them to read it; I want people that just talk about beauty in the group chat a lot to read it,\u201d Sicardi said. \u201cThere\u2019s so much information overload and overwhelm, and this book exists in the landscape of that chaos, and tries to create a framework to understand it a bit better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 10 years in the making, Arabelle Sicardi\u2019s \u201cThe House of Beauty\u201d has arrived. 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