How Sephora is taking partnerships far beyond the storefront
Sephora CEO Artemis Patrick tells the Fast Company Innovation Festival crowd how partnerships—including a newly announced influencer storefront—are fueling its growth.
Nate Berg is a staff writer at Fast Company, where he writes about design, architecture, urban development, and industrial design. He has written for publications including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Wired, The Guardian, Dwell, Wallpaper, and Curbed. He has reported on the ground in 11 U.S. states and 9 countries, and is a two-time finalist for the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists.
His articles have covered a range of topics, from the evolution of Japan's prefabricated housing industry to radical changes in the design of car headlights and preventing the loss of community gardens in London by building bat habitats. Nate started writing about urban planning and development in 2006, and in 2011 he became the first staff writer at The Atlantic Cities, now known as CityLab. After several years as a freelancer based in Los Angeles and then Berlin, he joined Fast Company in 2020. He now lives in Detroit.
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