Fashion PR News: TheLookbook Hires Shannon Levy as Beauty Director

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TheLookbook, a searchable database for brands, public relations firms, stylists and celebrities, will be launching a Beauty and Makeup Artist division in the Fall of 2009. In preparation, founders Kristin Calavas and Rhonda Richford have hired Shannon Levy, former Managing Editor of Makeup Artist magazine, as Beauty Director. Levy is also a Contributing Editor for On Makeup magazine and will continue in this capacity while working as Beauty Director for TheLookbook.  Prior to her tenure at Makeup Artist, she was a beauty reporter and contributor at InStyle magazine.

For more information about The Lookbook, check out this PR Couture post and podcast with co-founder Kristin Calavas and skim the following below:


Information available through TheLookbook includes:

  • Current information for public relations and sample requests contacts at major fashion houses, including email addresses.
  • Comprehensive listings of fashion public relations firms and their current clients.
  • Up-to-date stylist information including agency information and a list of celebrity clients.
  • Celebrities’ stylist information and notes on fashion or beauty endorsement contracts.
  • A fashion Keyword search to enable professionals to call in items for shoots using common terms such as “jeans,” “bikinis,” or “menswear.”
  • A Stylist Keyword search to enable users to find celebrity endorsements or contracts using brands such as “L’Oreal” or “Neutrogena.”
  • TheLookbook’s red carpet credits blog that list comprehensive outfit red carpet credits for celebrities, with a search function to review a celebrity’s history.

[Sponsored by Dujour Mag] Top Fashion PR Links 4/3/09

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An Interview with Heathy Park, PR for Mac Cosmetics (via Beauty411)

  • I work in the PR department for M·A·C, with a focus on regional media an New Media. Basically my job is to secure press for M·A·C and our M·A·C PRO Team in those media outlets: local newspapers, magazines and television stations, as well as blogs, websites and other alternative media. Oddly enough, the two areas couldn’t be more polar opposites of each other!

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  • Prada SpA’s owners may ask banks to reorganize 1.2 billion euros ($1.6 billion) of debt, freeing cash to open new stores and promote the luxury label’s brands in the recession, two people with knowledge of the plans said.

Pitch! Press becomes addicted to Polyvore, and it’s all PR Couture’s fault! (via Pitch!)

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