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Stylenanda

South Korea-based make-up and fashion brand

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ21178775
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Stylenanda (Korean: 스타일난다) is a South Korea-based make-up and fashion brand that is owned by L'Oréal.

Stylenanda was founded in 2004 by Nanda, owned by Kim So Hee. It had further expanded internationally and established branches in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Japan and Thailand.

May 2, 2018 L'Oréal announced the acquisition of 100% of Nanda Co. Ltd. One of its flagship stores is located in Myeong-dong, Seoul in South Korea. Named Pink Hotel, it is a hotel-themed “everything pink” flagship store.

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The public source identifies “Stylenanda” as south Korea-based make-up and fashion brand. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Stylenanda, South and Korea-based.

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This entry incorporates text from Stylenanda” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.