Ep. 30 Part Two: MAC Cosmetics Co-Founder Frank Toskan
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It's here - just in time for Canada Day! Welcome to Part 2 of our conversation with M.A.C. Cosmetics Co-Founder Frank Toskan. It's his first interview in four years so we made sure that we got alllll the juicy celebrity moments that helped catapult M.A.C to household name status (a young Lady Gaga, Madonna and Linda Evangelista were all involved). Don't miss the rebellious acts that had department stores up in arms, like hiring crossdressing makeup artists, and giving out condoms at beauty counters (mon dieu!) We also go deep on VIVA Glam, the unparalleled giving-back program that's earned a whopping $480M for M.A.C's AIDS Fund, including a sneak peek on an academic book on the topic (launching just in time for VIVA Glam's 25th anniversary next year). So, what's Frank Toskan up to now? We've got the scoop on his next indie startup, called Impact Kitchen, that tastes as good as it is for you.
Hosts: Carlene Higgins and Jill Dunn
Audio production: Olivia Nashmi
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| 0:00.0 | There was an incident in one of the department stores in San Francisco and one of our employees was let go because he was a cross dresser. |
| 0:07.0 | Some customers found him offensive I guess and I'm luckily he was the friend of Linda Ronsstead at that time who was a singer I don't know if you remember |
| 0:17.8 | but she she took a great offense to it and good for her they picketed the store the next day and they were forced to hire back |
| 0:26.6 | that employee and they rewrote their policy on what was acceptable and not acceptable in their |
| 0:32.3 | stores. |
| 0:35.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Breaking Beauty. |
| 0:39.0 | The podcast all about the best selling beauty products and the damn good stories behind them. |
| 0:43.3 | We're your host, Carleen Higgins and Jill Dunn. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast. |
| 0:49.2 | We are your host, Carleen Higgins, and this is Jill Dunn. Hi everybody. Do you have your proud to be |
| 0:55.2 | Canadian lipstick on Jill? I'm gonna swipe it on right now. I've got mine on. |
| 0:59.3 | I'm gonna swivel up this black tube. Of course we're talking about Mac cosmetics and this is the limited |
| 1:05.7 | edition lipstick they launched it last year for Canada a day. It is back and it is just as flag red. |
| 1:13.1 | Oh my god I love it. |
| 1:14.4 | This looks great on you. |
| 1:15.7 | Thank you. |
| 1:16.6 | I'm putting it on right now guys, |
| 1:19.0 | living dangerously without a mirror. |
| 1:20.9 | Ooh. How creepy do I look right now? You not look creepy yet. Okay you |
| 1:26.8 | have to talk while I put it on. Okay here we go. Today's episode this is part two of episode 30 on the legendary unstoppable Mac Cosmetics with the |
| 1:35.8 | OG co-founder Frank Toskin. |
| 1:39.6 | If you tuned into part one, which I certainly hope you did you heard all about Frank |
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