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When I was creative director [at Estée Lauder], I was always being asked about my beauty must-haves. From there I had this fun idea to create a line of what was in my makeup bag. But I also love accessories, and people associate me with home, family, and beauty.

Aerin Lauder

I discovered I was passionate about the creative process, the product development, creating a concept around a fragrance or lipstick.
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Concept Creating Creative Development Fragrance Lipstick Passionate Process Product
I love laugh lines. It means you’ve had a good life.
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Good Laugh Life Line Mean Positive
As a girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse; if I could still play with it now, I would! I used to love a well-arranged room: the furniture, the fabric, the lighting.
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Always Arranged Asked Creative Director Fabric Furniture Lighting Love Room Well
When I took the job as Estée Lauder’s creative director, the first thing I did was go into the archives! I love taking our heritage and making it modern.
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Archives Country Creative Director First Job People Thing
One summer I worked at Estée Lauder, and I really enjoyed the whole creative process.
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Creative Enjoyed One Process Really Summer Worked
I think talented people are priceless. And I think people that are knowledgeable and experienced – and I think there’s a balance of new talent and experience, which makes, I think, Estee Lauder really special.
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Experienced Knowledgeable People Priceless Special Talented Thinking
The effect of scent is really interesting. It can create a mood and change a feeling immediately. I wanted to create a modern wardrobe of fragrances … fragrances that can be very personal to the woman who’s wearing them.
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Change Create Effect Feeling Immediately Interesting Mood Scent
People love buying into a lifestyle and an overall concept. So when they buy a shell-colored lip gloss, they can also buy shells for their house, as well as sunglasses and [items in] other categories [in that shade] to create one consistent image.
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Concept House Lifestyle Overall People Shade
And balancing motherhood and career makes you both a better mother and a better businesswoman.
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Balancing Better Both Businesswoman Make Mother Motherhood
You always have to stay true to yourself.
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Stay True Yourself
I think it’s so much fun to create a space. As the world has gotten more and more hectic – with these horrible catastrophes [happening] – people are going out less, ordering in, [having guests over]. People love to be in their homes.
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Catastrophes Create Fun Gotten Hectic Home Horrible More Space Thinking World
I have a lot of passion. I have a lot of pride. I think I do get that from my family. But you can be driven and be nice.
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Driven Family Nice Passion Pride
I love to decorate a room – from the furniture to the objects to the books.
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Book Decorate Furniture Object Room
I figure if I take my children’s work seriously, maybe they will too. And it reinforces the idea that art is not something alien and esoteric. Anyone can make art.
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Alien Children Esoteric Figure Idea Reinforce Seriously Something
There’s something really interesting about that as a trend, that whole idea of lifestyle and being happy in your surroundings.
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Being Happy Idea Interesting Lifestyle Really Something Trend Whole
Beauty is my heritage, but home decor is very much my passion.
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Beauty Decor Heritage Home Passion

When I was creative director [at Estée Lauder], I was always being asked about my beauty must-haves. From there I had this fun idea to create a line of what was in my makeup bag. But I also love accessories, and people associate me with home, family, and beauty.

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When I was creative director [at Estée Lauder], I was always being asked about my beauty must-haves. From there I had this fun idea to create a line of what was in my makeup bag. But I also love accessories, and people associate me with home, family, and beauty.

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