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Yes, Deciem Is Closed. But Don't Worry, You Can Still Buy Your Favourite Prods

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Drama, drama, drama. In yet another confusing turn of events for the Canadian skincare company Deciem, founder and CEO Brandon Truaxe took to Instagram on October 8 to announce that he is closing the company due to what he called “major criminal activity.”

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Without filters. A revolution is coming. Every one of you who has been laughing aT me will with certainty face criminal prosecution. Estée Lauder Companies Inc. has been the biggest stock promotion. Richard Duntas, Bernard Ass (LVMH), Marica “Tracy” (Bliss, Remedè, Soaper Due Per Shoe), Hyatt (Grand Hyatt, Andaz, er al), Marriott (St. Regis, W, Marriot, et al), So many porn “studios”, nearly all @deciem employees, most of “Hollywood”, Gill Sinclair, India Knight, Caroline Hirons, India Knight, RBC, BMO, Boots, KKR, most of the Lauder family, Estée Lauder Companies Inc., Karim Kanji, Antonio Tadrisi, DF Mc, LVMH, Dia Fooley, Michael Davidson, Hanif, Zark Fatah, Inditex (Zara, Massimo Dutti, etc), H&M, $100 monkey, Too Faced (founders too), TSG, Alshaya, Amanresorts, Erwin Zecha, Oliver Zecha, Steven R Riddle, the Coc and Corcky managers, PRIDE organizers, IT Cosmetics, Nicola L ReadingTons, all of Dishoom, All of Delaunay, David Yurman, Tom Ford, Tim Cooke. McKesson, Rexall, Jamin Asaria, David Jackson, York Heritage and others — sentencing doesn’t begin with any point but sentences like this one do. Ben Affleck, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Michael Less, Stephen Spellberg e.T., AON are also included with certainty. ARGO stood for “Ali Roshan GO”. You idiots. Father, please please be safe if you can for the next few hours. I love you all. -Brandon (RIYADH, please be EXTREMELY CAREFUL in the next few hours). Aurora (TSX) : you are finished. Michael Basler, Gordon Wilde, David Trinder, Eric Jacobs, Allan Gerlings, Dalton Pharma SS, Michael OH CON ELLE, Charm IS T A 007, Robert Jones, Cascade, Prince Al Walid, The White Company, Obagi (brand and doctor), Freedom Health, ESHO-isT, Alexandru Serban and baggage, Apotex: Goodbye also. Peace is coming. 🦁🦋 🐪. It’s clear now. @esteelaudercompanies @richardbranson @realdonaldtrump @gowlingwlg_ca @zuck @musicianjessecook, et. al.

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In a shaky video, Truaxe—who appears to be posting from the back seat of a moving vehicle—says, “This is the final post of Deceim, which we will shut down all operations until further notice, which will be about two months… Almost everyone at Deciem has been involved in a major criminal activity which includes financial crimes and much other. You have no idea what a soldier I’ve been for more than thirteen years.” The video was accompanied by a lengthy, incoherent caption that frankly, we don’t have the fortitude to decipher.

Across the pond, Cosmopolitan UK reported that a leaked email, allegedly sent by Truaxe, went out “to all Deciem employees on 8 October [and] instructs all UK stores (with the exception of the Spitalfields branch) to close with immediate effect, and reopen in 2019. The message also began with a warning that anyone who ‘disrespects the guidance will be terminated tomorrow.'”

So far, there’s been no official statement from Deciem or Estée Lauder, which has a 28% minority share in the company, but by October 9, Deceim’s homepage was gonzo, while stores across Canada were already labelled “permanently closed” on Google Maps. (Based on social media posts, the stores certainly look shuttered.)

The FLARE office was pretty devastated—we have to say goodbye to our beloved $10 serums and hyaluronic acid from cult beauty brands The Ordinary, NIOD and Hylamide?! Honey, call the police!

Truaxe’s video implies that operations will resume in “about two months” (so… December?) and there’s speculation that this is all a publicity stunt anyway, but we’re not taking any chances. As of October 10, it appears you can still access the online stores of Deciem’s individual brands. However, no one knows how long that’ll last, so it may be safer to go through Hudson’s Bay, well.ca and Amazon, which all still have prods in-stock.

This is just the latest in a very dramatic year for the Canadian brand, mostly because of Truaxe himself. (Think, racist remarks, abruptly firing staff and generally insulting the entire world.) Somebody, somewhere needs to change the company’s Instagram password on him already!!

Stay tuned: we’ll update this post as more information becomes available and tbh, you never truly know the fate of Deciem when it comes to Truaxe and his antics.

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