Stila Cosmetics is an American

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company founded in 1994. The cosmetics line was created by makeup artist

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. The name Stila (pronounced STEE-la) was derived from the

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word "stil," which can mean "style". Stila's official website is quoted as saying that they chose that name because they believe "every woman’s makeup should be as individual as her own signature". Jeanine Lobell writes on her blog that, "We kind of just made up the name, ‘Stila.’ It sounds sort of like stil in Swedish, which means style." Lobell grew up in Sweden. Estée Lauder Companies bought Stila in 1999 and sold it to

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in the spring of 2006. In 2009, Stila became a

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company when it was sold to the private equity fund Patriarch Partners, LL

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In 2013, Stila worked in collaboration with

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to present the Neo-Tribes Runway Event that premiered at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles and

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