Francisco Costa's Next Chapter

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4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Francisco Costa looks at beauty through a different lens. One of the biggest forces in fashion, the former women's creative director of Calvin Klein Collection speaks to Jess about his evolution from designer to beauty founder, with the launch of Costa Brazil, and shares his creative process around product development. He also gets candid about the realities of acquisition: The brand was acquired by biotech firm Amyris in 2021, but it shut down the brand in 2023. Now that Costa bought back the brand—and is back in charge—he's ready to share some hard-won wisdom.

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0:00.0	Okay, it's Fat Mascara. Welcome everyone, hi, I'm Jen Sullivan.
0:07.0	Okay, it's Fat Mascara.
0:09.0	Welcome everyone.
0:10.0	Hi, I'm Jen Sullivan.
0:11.0	Hi, I'm Jess Matlin.
0:12.0	It's interview day here. Jen Sullivan. Hi, I'm Jess Matlin.
0:12.8	It's interview day here.
0:14.8	It's like getting into that fashion month feeling.
0:18.6	We're doing something fashiony.
0:20.5	We're getting excited.
0:21.5	I'm like so so excited to hear your chat with Francisco Costa.
0:25.0	We'll get ready because this is a great interview. I'm so excited to speak with
0:28.7	Francisco Costa. He has a true talent. He's had so many lives and one of the most notable is that he was the
0:36.8	creative director of Calvin Klein for over a decade and he had so much amazing
0:41.7	experience in the fashion world before that and we'll talk about that a bit.
0:46.0	But after he left the fashion world, after he left Calvin,
0:51.0	he founded the beauty brand close to Brazil and that was in 2018 and I can say easily in my opinion it is one of the most singular
1:00.0	luxury beauty brands have ever come across. It is highly personal. It is
1:05.4	completely rooted in his view of Brazil where he was born. It is all about
1:11.4	Brazilian culture. It is about nature. It is about mysticism. It is just so unique to him in his view of Brazil and the world.
1:21.0	And it's of course, it's his, so it's incredibly chic and well designed.
1:25.6	Now this brand has a really interesting history in just a few years it's been around.
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