CNN's Leading Women with Bobbi Brown and Linda Chen

This month, ‘Leading Women’ profiles Bobbi Brown who revolutionised the approach to natural makeup with Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, and Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of Wynn Resorts Macau, Linda Chen. This edition of ‘Leading Women’ will be aired on 26th July 2014 at 10.00 am and 27th July 2014 at 6.00 pm.

Enthralled by makeup from a young age, Bobbi Brown studied theatrical makeup at Boston’s Emerson College, before moving to New York City to make it as a professional makeup artist. Seven years after arriving in New York City, Brown’s big breakthrough was her first cover of American Vogue, shot by Patrick Demarchelier and featuring Naomi Campbell.
Ten years into her freelance career, Brown found nearly all makeup products looked too artificial, and had the idea to create a lipstick that didn’t smell, wasn’t dry or greasy, and looked like lips – only better. The result was a range of 10 brown-base lipstick shades, debuting at Bergdorf Goodman in 1991, and the conception of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics.

Linda Chen is the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of Wynn Resorts Macau, responsible for marketing and strategic development the company. An alumni of Cornell and Stanford, Chen previously served as Executive Vice President at MGM Mirage and Bellagio in Vegas, joining Wynn Resorts in 2002.

Chen tells ‘Leading Women’ about making the move to the new frontier of gaming, the Chinese enclave Macau, lessons she took from opening the MGM Grand and Bellagio in Vegas, and what her parents thought of her entering the Casino industry.