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The New Rules of Luxury

Elevating Beauty

Shaking off its aesthetically fuelled past, luxury beauty is now defined by a new era of mindfulness, sustainability and conscious consumption. Data-driven tech spearheads new levels of personalisation, while beauty’s old guard must learn from indie pioneers engaged in meaningful conversations with the younger generation – tomorrow’s high net worth elite.

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11 May 2017
BY: Lisa Payne & Alice Leeburn
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