Brooke Shields has a lot to rejoice this summer time.

After getting into a brand new decade on the finish of Might when she turned 60, her haircare brand for women over 40, Commence, formally celebrated its first birthday in June.

Shields is honoring the milestone by teaming up with a fellow feminine model founder and one in all her shut buddies for a particular launch to commemorate the event. She and Clare Vivier, the founding father of style model Clare V., designed a T-shirt that claims “Beaux Cheveux,” French for “lovely hair.”

“It is greater than a collaboration. It is a celebration of female-founded manufacturers, and quite a lot of the entrepreneurial relationships that I’ve tapped into have all been began by ladies of their later years, and so they’ve been new endeavors, and I believe Clare represents that,” Shields tells PEOPLE completely of working with Vivier on this launch. Explaining that they met via a mutual good friend, Shields says of Vivier, “the champion that she is for different ladies is actually admirable and invigorating to me.”

The pair designed the delicate salmon-pink shirt — which is accessible completely on every of their manufacturers’ web sites beginning July 17 for $100 whereas provides final — to be proper in step with the colour palette of Shields’ different Start merchandise.

Whereas the brand new tee honors Shields’ model’s first birthday, Vivier says it is also about their friendship. And because it’s Clare V.’s first collab with a haircare model, Vivier says she’s thrilled that it is with one which she’s a fan of.

“The age that I’m now — and quite a lot of my government staff — we’re over 40 and we want [hair products] devoted to our particular hair and scalp wants, and I do not suppose anybody else is doing it [like Commence],” Vivier says.

Each Shields and Vivier commerce heat, genial phrases about one another whereas discussing hair patterns in ladies over 40 (like how far more love your scalp wants as you age and the way far more prevalent hair loss could be if you happen to’re not cautious), and it is simple to see why they got here collectively for this collaboration.

After they met, Vivier admits that she initially considered Shields as an “icon” however rapidly realized that the actress and writer was merely “Brooke” after they hit it off over a four-hour lunch.

“She’s such a humorous individual and he or she’s simply really easy to get together with,” Vivier says of Shields, who chuckles and provides of the good friend who launched them: “Our mutual good friend is sort of a badass. She would not undergo fools.”

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One of many advantages of the friendship is that Vivier, who based Clare V. in 2008 and has constructed it right into a profitable enterprise, has been a optimistic affect on Shields as she builds her model.

“Beginning a enterprise on this period, on this age, I depend on folks and on their information as a result of I did not know this world,” Shields says. “I have been a mannequin and an actress my complete life. I did go to school, I obtained a level, but it surely wasn’t in enterprise. It wasn’t in finance.”

Shields provides that what she’s discovered, most of all, from Vivier — past the scope of primary enterprise information — is tenacity and perseverance as a feminine enterprise proprietor. She admires her in that sense day by day. She says their companies even have the identical aim.

“Our imaginative and prescient has at all times been very clear about empowering ladies,” Shields says. “And the mission is to create merchandise that assist remedy particular person points {that a} girl experiences, however make you look lovely.”

Shields initially launched her Start haircare model final yr after fostering a group of like-minded ladies over 40 who longed for merchandise to care for growing old hair. She gathered all their insights and constructed a staff that would assist her flip that group into potential prospects. From there, Start was born. It began with three hero merchandise, and some months later, the brand launched three more.

“Girls [in this age group] undergo a myriad of adjustments, however there’s a white area for downside fixing,” Shields instructed PEOPLE when the model first launched. “The predominant query that was arising [within the community] was hair. High quality of hair, hair loss, hair texture, the adjustments in your hair. So we began to appreciate, okay, I believe we will have to enter this realm to resolve these issues.”

From the outset, Shields was desirous to be taught all the pieces she may about manufacturing creation. She dove headfirst into the chemistry of all of it and surrounded herself with consultants who may train her the ins and outs about bringing the very best merchandise to ladies over 40 — and ladies underneath 40, as a result of Shields maintains that these merchandise will work on anybody.

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Quick-forward to right this moment, and he or she’s extra assured than ever in her model and in herself as a founder.

“We have gotten awards, and we have bought out. Each product is bought out,” she gushes. “It is revealed a unique a part of me — I haven’t got to ask for permission anymore. I believe after I began the model, I used to be asking for permission. I used to be a bit extra timid. Now I do know why I am right here. I do know why the model works. I do know why it is registering with folks. That is been a giant piece for me as a CEO for the primary time in my life and as a founder.”

As for what’s sooner or later for Start, Shields has a lot extra plans in retailer. Most of all, she’s sticking with the large group she’s constructed and desires to present them extra merchandise to maintain their hair and scalps wholesome.

“I simply need to keep linked to the model and continue to grow it, and I do not ever need to abandon the group,” she says. “I simply need to continue to grow.”

Store the limited-edition Beaux Cheveux shirt on Clare V. and Commence now whereas provides final.