Bobbi Brown
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
Bobbi Brown reads as The Catalyst because she has sparked change more than once. She first rejected the heavily made-up beauty standard that defined cosmetics in the 1990s and built a brand around a radical alternative, then walked away from that brand at its peak to ignite a second entrepreneurial act with Jones Road.
“No, but when you do advertising and catalog, like catalog at the time was paying between $250 and $500 a day, and that's when you do makeup on a bunch of models for a Saxfith Avenue or a Macy's. And then if it's a commercial, you got a couple thousand. But everything you do, you meet people. And you tend to move in packs.”
“And I was in awe. You know, I could never ever, ever be that glamorous And I was, you know, the shortest always, and, you know, not the skinniest, but I was really lucky because the other side of that, I had my grandmother and my aunt Dallas, who were more like me, really simple, wearing comfortable shoes, you know, people comfortable in…”
“My mother says, You can't. And I said, But why, mom, it's so boring. I don't want to go to college. She says, I never graduated college. And she says, you have to. I said, but mom, I have no clue what I want to do. And my mother said, I remember the two chairs we were sitting at.”
“My mother was the most glamorous, stunning woman. She looked like a young Jackie Kennedy And I used to watch her put her makeup on with her false eyelashes, her eyeliner. She was skinny as could be.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Bobbi Brown”
LISTEN AT THE SOURCE ↗THE RECORD IS CHECKABLE