Pascale Brousse founded Trend Sourcing in 2000 with a conviction that beauty belongs within health. In this conversation, she discusses the intuition behind her forecasts, how climate change is reshaping care, the research gaps around melanin-rich skin, and the collaborative work of turning observations into brand strategy. We also explore longevity, well-being, and the future of trend forecasting.

Seung-min Lee, CEO of AMUSE, built the Seoul-born brand on a simple idea: beauty should feel joyful, not perfected. In this conversation, she explains why a lip tint can anchor a brand identity, how the "AMUSE language" lets her team move fast without chasing every trend, and why Korean makeup is stepping out of skincare's shadow. We also talk about Jang Wonyoung, the Paris pop-up, and her ambition to make skincare-powered makeup a category of its own.

Olivier Lebrun began in fashion before making the salon central to his work. Today, with OLAB Paris and BLOWN, he brings those two ways of looking at hair together. He talks about biomimetic formulation, using less water, what clients really need between appointments and where haircare is heading next.

Gray hair is still asked to mean too much. Hide it and you are maintaining yourself. Reveal it and the decision is expected to become a statement. GRIS starts elsewhere: with the right to choose, then change your mind.

Caroline Briant-Larose discovered her first white hair at 22. After founding Moodz, she began thinking about another intimate transition shaped by judgment, language and a lack of dedicated products. With cofounder Charlotte Bregeon, she built GRIS around gray and white hair as a material in its own right.

The first Sublimation routine moves beyond the category's fixation on yellow tones to address hydration, softness, light and the changing properties of the fiber. In our conversation, Caroline speaks about the idea that arrived on Hydra, what her first testers taught her, and why GRIS will never tell women whether to color their hair.

What happens when high-performance skincare takes solid form? With JOD, Olivia Bordeaux-Groult explores the possibilities of stickcare, bringing waterless formulation and sensorial pleasure into a new daily ritual. We spoke about the thinking behind the formulas, the demands of performance, and why changing the way we apply skincare opens new ground for innovation.

Aura Serras was running her aesthetics clinic in Barcelona in 2008 when she started working with iS Clinical. The results came fast and her clients stayed. Instead of simply reordering, she flew to Los Angeles to meet the founders, because she wanted to know who was behind the formulas she was putting on people's faces. What she brought back was a conviction that the Spanish market was ready for a different vocabulary.

SPF literacy changed beauty, but it did not solve the photoprotection question. Professor Thierry Passeron has spent more than twenty years studying how light affects skin — from UVA and pigmentation to mitochondrial stress, visible light, dark CPDs, and cellular repair. With SUNLUTION, he reframes sunscreen from a seasonal anti-burn reflex into a daily biological strategy. In this conversation, Passeron explains why photoprotection must move beyond SPF, how PhotoAdaptive Technology works, and what the skin needs when defense by day and repair by night are treated as one system.

Marion Colibeau first encountered fungi through material science. With Fungastique, she is translating that expertise into a new vision of mycotherapy, bringing French savoir-faire, emerging research, and daily ritual into the same conversation. We spoke about postpartum recovery, provenance, and the intelligence beneath the surface.

Laboratoires Botanique Avancée was launched in December 2025 with a rare level of scientific infrastructure behind its beauty story. Rooted in the Domaine de Baulieu in Provence, the brand brings together plant stem cell biotechnology, regenerative medicine, 3D skin organoid testing, and formulas reaching nearly 30% actives. In this conversation, co-founder and CEO Nathalie Cantagrenne reflects on NEO-REGEN technology, the 136 genes involved in skin aging, the discipline of formulating without shortcuts, and why regeneration only means something when the science comes before the story.

Skincare has spent decades organized around the face, the skin that meets the camera, the skin we maintain for other people. Gina Lucania, Vice President of Wholesale Sales & Marketing at goop, makes the case that the more honest territory is below the neck: the body is the skin we keep for ourselves, the last part we still care for without an audience. Not more steps, but more attention: reading the body the way we learned to read ingredient lists.

Elizabeth Barbalich founded Antipodes in New Zealand around a question natural beauty had not answered rigorously enough: what can a finished formula actually prove? Trained in biology and medical technology, she built the brand around third-party in vitro testing, formulation synergy, and a refusal to treat natural skincare as a category defined only by absence. In this conversation, Barbalich reflects on evidence, ingredient theater, the move from skincare into haircare, and why healthy skin - not ageless skin - remains the more meaningful beauty ideal.

Shay Bennaim, Global Brand President of Tata Harper Skincare, reflects on the brand’s next evolution: how to honor a founder-led legacy while sharpening focus, strengthening global consistency, and protecting the product conviction that made Tata Harper one of modern natural luxury’s defining skincare brands.

Rhodista begins with a question the collagen supplement category often avoids: what can the body actually recognize, absorb, and use? After thirteen years as an interior architect, Pamela Manasievski trained in functional nutrition and discovered bone broth through her own rosacea journey. Her Belgian-made elixirs keep the logic of the whole-food matrix: slow cooking, traceable farms, organic ingredients, no powders, no unnecessary additions. In this conversation, she reflects on bioavailability, beauty-from-within, longevity, boxing, and why real support is built through repetition.

Susanne Kaufmann founded her Alpine maison in 2003, before high-performance natural skincare had a stable vocabulary. This second FOS conversation does not return to the origin story. It asks what happens after the category catches up to a founder who was early. From NovoRetin™ to ectoin, vitamin C, barrier repair, and daily photoprotection, Kaufmann’s recent launches read less like range expansion than formulation evolution. Here, she reflects on resilience, ritual, and why the future of skincare may depend less on correction than on long-term skin function.

Long before scalp care became a category, Léonor Greyl had already built its method around a simple principle: there is no beautiful hair without a healthy scalp. Founded in Paris in 1968, the maison worked with botanical oils, plant-based formulas, scalp analysis, tailored treatments, and massage decades before the language of “clean” or “hair spa” entered the mainstream. In this conversation, Caroline Greyl reflects on legacy, formulation nuance, the 55-year life of Huile de Léonor Greyl, and the discipline required to know what must evolve, and what must never change.

Founded by Charlotte Bouygues on the Château Montrose estate in Saint-Estèphe, Dix Hectares does not treat terroir as a decorative language. Its R&D lab sits close to the plots. Its botanicals are harvested according to solstices and equinoxes, dry-frozen, extracted through a low-temperature ultrasound process, and traced by plot, harvest, and batch. The rhythm is not only seasonal in image. It is seasonal in procedure.

For decades, the professional hair world operated on a clear hierarchy: brand educates, stylist transmits, client receives. L’Oréal Professionnel’s Global Creative Contributors program was built to dismantle that logic — and replace it with something rarer: genuine co-authorship at institutional scale.

I spoke with Margaux Nardini, Global Brand Engagement Director, on the thinking behind The Global Creative Contributors program, the architecture of Transformation Day (20 countries, 50 hairstylists, 100 celebrities, 4 color trends already traveling globally), and why she believes the distinction between ambassador and contributor is not semantic. It is structural.

In 2015, Medea Juhasz launched Catalyst Gold, a 16-ingredient multipurpose supplement combining adaptogens, Chinese herbs, amino acids, and superfruits into a single daily formula. The category she was entering did not yet have a name. "Ingestible beauty" would come later, once the market caught up to what she had already built.

We spoke with her about pioneering a space before the market had language for it, the knowledge produced by personal health crisis as a formulation methodology, and what ten years in a category you helped create actually looks like.

Odièle was built on that conviction. Whole botanicals. Nutrient-dense plant oils. Small batches. No synthetics, no preservatives, no artificial fragrance. Certified organic across the entire line, without exception. Fewer products, higher integrity, results that compound over time.

Le Balm took five years to create. It contains sixty-eight ingredients. It's waterless, solid, and can be used in many ways. It works on skin repair, moisture, protection, and renewal all at once. The 2.6.60 system (two skin layers, six actions, sixty-plus ingredients) isn't just marketing. It's a scientific method, the same kind used to develop medicines, applied to skincare.