Welcome in, today is Friday, October second, and we begin with Sephora, which TheStreet reports is taking its shop-in-shop model into one hundred Marks and Spencer stores. TheStreet reports Sephora and Marks and Spencer have agreed a partnership to launch Sephora at M and S, opening in select stores and on the M and S website in spring twenty twenty-seven, with plans to scale to one hundred stores across the UK. Per that account, the shop-in-shops will carry a curated assortment across skin care, makeup, fragrance, hair and body care, staffed by Sephora Beauty Advisors, with a wider range online. Specific locations had not been named as of September thirtieth. For brand and channel teams, this is prestige beauty adding doors inside partner retailers rather than standalone stores, shifting where assortment, planogram and field-education spend has to land. The same reporting notes Sephora's Kohl's tie-up had passed one thousand one hundred doors by the end of fiscal twenty twenty-five, though sales there declined in the first and second quarters of this year. Industry reaction leans toward reading the shop-in-shop route as national reach without the cost of building stores, with the host chain ceding category control. Separately, Global Cosmetics News reports nine members of the US Congress have written to Revlon Group Holdings chief executive Michelle Peluso, seeking answers after an FDA warning over testing and quality-control deficiencies at the company's Oxford, North Carolina manufacturing facility. We have not seen that letter matched elsewhere. That summary carries no response deadline, and records no comment from Revlon. The effect is to move an FDA quality-control finding out of the regulatory file and into political scrutiny, which manufacturers are watching as MoCRA-era facility oversight takes hold. Among compliance practitioners, reaction leans toward reading findings like these as an oversight gap rather than a paperwork one. Also today, Coty has a new US consumer beauty chief. Glossy reports Kara Langan is joining the company as it rebalances creator and traditional advertising, restores brand support behind Sally Hansen and builds out its mass fragrance business. Those spending signals say more than the appointment itself for anyone selling into or competing with Coty's mass portfolio. That account is brief, and does not detail budgets or timing. Industry reaction to the hire is mostly congratulatory rather than evaluative, though a recurring thread is how much turnover has moved through the same US consumer-beauty leadership layer, which some observers read as the backdrop the brand-support rebuild has to hold against. Now, to Korea. Global Cosmetics News reports Amorepacific has partnered with biotechnology company Junevity to develop next-generation cosmetics targeting skin ageing, alongside a strategic investment through its corporate venture arm, Amorepacific Ventures. Per that reporting, the collaboration pairs Junevity's RESET platform with Amorepacific's skin biology, cosmetic development and commercialisation expertise. Nothing has shipped. Read it as the biotech route into anti-ageing claims, bought at the venture stage rather than licensed at the shelf. Some in the trade frame the tie-up as therapeutic target-discovery methods being pointed at skin ageing, with a few floating a breakthrough-scale moment for the category, a framing others would treat as premature. A recurring adjacent thread sets deals like this against Korean beauty's exposure to a Chinese market where domestic rivals are closing the gap. Now, a few more headlines moving the trade today. Premium Beauty News reports rhode, the brand founded by Hailey Rhode Bieber and acquired by e.l.f. Beauty last year, has made its European retail debut in more than five hundred Sephora stores across nineteen countries, after selling direct only. Cosmetics Business reports wellbeing fragrance brand Vyrao has been acquired by newly established health and beauty platform Tresalis, with founder Yasmin Sewell stepping into a chief brand officer role. WWD reports Fable and Mane has named Cécile Budge chief executive, promoted from chief operating officer at holding company Nirvana Brands. And finally, WWD reports Tate McRae's first fragrance with Scent Beauty, Tate Zero One, goes direct-to-consumer first, reaching Ulta Beauty online on October sixteenth and in stores on October twenty-fifth.