Photograph by Irving Penn. Published in Vogue, August 1997. Canadian cofounders Frank Toskan, as creative director, and Frank Angelo, as marketing director, begin selling cosmetics to professional makeup artists in Toronto. “If someone needed a gallon of glitter powder for a photo shoot for 30 people, they knew where they could find it,”[6] Toskan will later say. The core team includes chief chemist Victor Casale, Toskan’s brother-in-law, and his sister, Julie Toskan-Casale. Sold in the basement of a Toronto department store, Angelo and […]

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