Jamie Matusow, Editor-in-Chief07.26.16
While walking around the show floor and speaking with exhibitors, I encountered many French participants joking about the various impediments facing the opening of this year’s edition of MakeUp in Paris, held June 10-11. The site of the annual exhibition, Carrousel de Louvre, on the lower level of the famed musée, had re-opened just two days before the show, after being closed due to the worst flooding of the Seine River to occur in 30 years. Add to that the trash strike, train strike, airline strike and the drama of the world soccer championship, and the status had seemed uncertain. Locals attending the show quipped that France likes to stay in the news in this way, that strikes represent the quintessential French reputation.
But as Sandra Maguarian, co-manager of MakeUp in Paris, told me, the outlook for the show’s opening had gone “from dark to sunlight.” The Seine began to recede, warnings were lifted and MakeUp in Paris’s organizers produced another record-breaking B2B show dedicated to the cosmetics sector.
Jean-Yves Bourgeois, co-manager of MakeUp in Paris, said this “one was one of the best MakeUp in P
But as Sandra Maguarian, co-manager of MakeUp in Paris, told me, the outlook for the show’s opening had gone “from dark to sunlight.” The Seine began to recede, warnings were lifted and MakeUp in Paris’s organizers produced another record-breaking B2B show dedicated to the cosmetics sector.
Jean-Yves Bourgeois, co-manager of MakeUp in Paris, said this “one was one of the best MakeUp in P
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