Nobody was laughing in the lobby of the Bowery Hotel except for Julie Schott, the former Elle beauty director, current pimple patch mogul, and idea machine for consumer packaged goods marketed towards Gen-Z. She was describing mass retail strategy when her voice suddenly dropped to a hush. “Am I being too loud in this room?” she whispered, then softly chided herself. “We’re in a library.” Schott joked about how you go to Target for…