Beauty.com™ and Marchesa Announce Encore Beauty Bag Collaboration

BELLEVUE, Wash. and NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Beauty.com, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of drugstore.com, inc. (Nasdaq: DSCM) invites the award-winning designers behind Marchesa back to create a unique gift with purchase. Starting Tuesday, January 11th, shoppers who visit www.beauty.com/marchesa will receive the designer bag with any $150 Beauty.com purchase. For this exclusive partnership, Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig re-imagined the evening clutch as a glamorous, beauty-savvy accessory. The lustrous black fabric exterior boasts tiers of ruffles and a dramatic bow, while a top-zip reveals a silky ballet-pink interior.  The limited edition gift arrives stocked with 17 beauty samples, including a shopping card for $10 off future Beauty.com purchases.

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"This season we wanted to create a beauty bag that could double as a chic day or night clutch. The draped bow detail and ruffles are Marchesa signatures and the classic noir finish will go with any outfit.  We also made it roomy enough for even the most extensive beauty collection, so you can carry everything or nothing at all and still look chic regardless of where you go."

—Marchesa co-founders Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig.

Ideal for an evening out, the bag is paired with 17 deluxe samples from some of the top brands in prestige beauty:

1. Juice Beauty® Reflecting Gloss in Organic Fig
2. Urban Decay™ De-Slick in a Tube
3. Fekkai Advanced™ Brilliant Glossing Shampoo
4. Nick Chavez® Amazon Infinity Mist
5. Exuviance® Rejuvenating Treatment Masque
6. Borghese Crema Saponetta Cleansing Face & Body Bar
7. Origins Checks and Balances™ Frothy Face Wash
8. GoSmile® Touch Up® Watermelon Mint
9. Laura Geller Wonder Wand Eye Brightener
10. Darphin PREDERMINE Firming Wrinkle Repair Serum
11. bareMinerals® Original Foundation in Medium Beige with Brush
12. Bliss® FatGirlSlim™ Skin Firming Cream
13. Dr. Dennis Gross™ Alpha Beta® Daily Face Peel
14. Clean™ Warm Cotton Eau de Perfume
15. Jonathan Product™ Finish Control™ High Shine Aerosol Hairspray
16. Phyto™ Phytocitrus Restructuring Mask
17. Alterna® Bamboo Smooth Pure Kendi Oil Pure Treatment Oil

"We're thrilled to kick off the New Year with a blockbuster Marchesa creation for Beauty.com shoppers," says president of Beauty.com, Kathleen McNeill. "It's a portable and sophisticated piece, filled with high-performance beauty products for a stylish start to 2011."

Site wide gifts with purchase are just one of the perks available to Beauty.com customers. Other benefits include "Everyday Free Shipping," 5% back on every purchase, the free sampling center, 100% color match guarantee, and a shared online shopping cart with Beauty.com's partner site, drugstore.com™. Beauty.com personalizes beauty shopping online with the skin care and hair care analysis tools, which provide product regimens tailored to the customer based on interactive surveys.  A new site feature also invites customers to shop the best beauty buys and value sets in addition to the brand-specific gifts with purchase available. Beauty fans can also get the latest tips, trends, and promotions sent directly to their email by signing up for the free weekly Beauty Bulletin on Beauty.com.

About Beauty.com – The World of Beauty Online™

Beauty.com, Inc. is a leading online destination for prestige beauty products. The web store provides a highly personalized shopping experience and offers more than 200 brands from widely recognized to niche, hard-to-find products. Beauty.com is wholly owned by drugstore.com, inc.

About drugstore.com, inc.

drugstore.com, inc. (NASDAQ:DSCM) is a leading online retailer of health, beauty, vision and pharmacy products. Our portfolio of brands include: drugstore.com, Beauty.com, Skinstore.com® and VisionDirect.com™.  All provide a convenient, private, and informative shopping experience while offering a wide assortment of more than 55,000 products at competitive prices.

About Marchesa

British born Georgina and Keren met at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. Georgina, a 2001 graduate of the Wimbledon School of Art, began her career as a costume designer. Keren graduated from Brighton Art College in 2000 and subsequently focused on print and embroidery design. Georgina's draping and design expertise paired with Keren's textile creations resulted in a business partnership and the establishment of Marchesa in 2004.

Elegant eveningwear, inspired by vintage and Asian influences, defines the Marchesa Collection. The beautifully crafted designs fuse high fashion with an eclectic aesthetic. Co-founded by Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig, the company's namesake and muse, Marchesa Luisa Casati, is the noted eccentric European style icon.

Based in New York, the Marchesa collection is presently available in Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman in the United States, Harrods in London, and specialty boutiques such as Holt Renfrew in Canada, Podium in Russia, Alothman in Kuwait, Boutique1 in Dubai, and Joyce and Lane Crawford in Hong Kong.

SOURCE Beauty.com, Inc.