Paul O. Loux
Vice President of Design
SEPHORA USA, Inc.

Paul Loux is vice president of design for Sephora, based in San Francisco. He is responsible for all aspects of environmental design, overseeing store design, planning, and visual merchandising for all Sephora stores in North America.

Prior to joining Sephora in 2008, Loux served as retail design director in Nike’s Global Brand Design group from 2002 to 2008. There, he worked on the retail design concepts for Nike’s freestanding and shop-in-shop store programs. Previously, he was director of store design at Levi’s in San Francisco from 1999 to 2002. He began his career at the department store division of Dayton’s Hudson’s and Marshall Field’s in 1991, working in both visual merchandising and corporate store design.

Loux received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame in psychology and business and his Master of Architecture degree at the University of Colorado in Denver.