Acqua di Parma turns 110 this year, and the anniversary has produced a considered series of releases. The latest is La Caletta, a summer collection developed in collaboration with French interior designer Laura Gonzalez, known for projects including the Cartier Mansion in New York and the Hotel Saint James in Paris.

Foundry, the new British luxury beauty brand created by cosmetic formulator and perfumer John Kilroy, builds its entire identity around that transparency. It launches from a former Saxon water mill in Frome, Somerset, with an edit of skincare, bodycare, and fragrance that sits as comfortably in the language of high science as it does in the Somerset countryside that physically surrounds it. What makes Foundry genuinely distinct from the wave of science-led brands that have de

Suncare has long struggled to balance effective clinical formulas with aesthetically pleasing products that lack scientific credibility. Alta Marea, founded by beauty industry veteran Nico Morga Alden, arrives with a direct and considered answer to that gap, built around the sensory language of the Amalfi Coast and the kind of formulation rigor that daily SPF, the single most evidence-backed step in any skincare routine, has always deserved but has often lacked. The brand dra

Why the World Is Finally Paying Attention Injectables are costly, and surgical facelifts are permanent, leading the beauty industry to fill the gap with devices and products that promise lift but rarely deliver lasting results. Kobido, a 550-year-old Japanese facial technique, is gaining popularity for its effective, hands-only results, as evidenced by long waiting lists in Paris, London, and New York. The surge in interest has everything to do with where consumer sentiment a

NYX Professional Makeup has spent 27 years building its reputation from the jawline up, and the Fat Oil Body collection marks the first time the brand has deliberately moved in the other direction, extending one of its most recognized franchises into a 12-product bodycare edit that brings the same glow-led, texture-forward sensibility of the original Fat Oil lip range to the whole body through a mix of oils, mists, butters, and lotions built around avocado oil and vitamin E a

Italian beauty brand Miamo has made its UK debut carrying a philosophy that was never going to sit quietly on a shelf, founded by pharmacists Dr Elena Aceto di Capriglia and Dr Camilla D'Antonio with CEO Giovanni D'Antonio at the helm of what remains a family-run brand, built from the ground up around rigorously tested formulas, protocol-led routines, and the kind of consistency-first thinking that prioritises long-term skin transformation over the kind of immediate but short

Your twenties are a paradox. It is the decade where skin still carries the softness of youth, yet where the choices you make begin to...