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Another day, another massive project launch for the Vogue Business team — this side from the Custom Insights team! Our second annual Vogue Business Beauty Index is out today — The Ordinary tops the leaderboard again, but there are some surprises in the Top 5. The Beauty Index is exclusively available for Advanced Members, but our top 5 article below can give a sneak peek to the findings! Top 5 (open access): https://lnkd.in/gNyjVhxG The definitive ranking of the top 30 brands in the beauty industry: https://lnkd.in/gF9zedNc Consumer sentiment on these top 30 brands and who comes out on top: https://lnkd.in/girFB9Su Why Nars Cosmetics is leading the pack on innovation: https://lnkd.in/gvqPMATn How Cerave used the Superbowl to take the digital crown from celebrity-founded brands: https://lnkd.in/g-ETUhcP And finally, which ESG values do consumers really care about when it comes to beauty? https://lnkd.in/gwmyzfK5 A massive well done to the Custom Insights team: Anusha Couttigane and project managing queen Amy Rollinson, amazing visuals as always from Niall Wilson and Amelia Buchanan, my subbing and production lifesavers Ella Graveney and Alyshea Wharton, and Robyn Brady, Stephanie Martin and Olivia Lower for making sure you lovely lot actually read in! Delve in now.

This is such a great project, please fill in if this is relevant to you and go back and read last year's one here! https://lnkd.in/gTpVryKT

It's an industry dominated by women, yet there is still an imbalance of power when it comes to fashion's C-suite roles. During Virginie Viard's tenure at Chanel, Chanel's fashion business grew more than twofold. Dior sales have more than quadrupled since Grazia Chiuri took over in 2016. And three of the five designers in our latest womenswear size inclusivity report were women. So why aren't there more women at the top? This week, the Vogue Business team set out to answer the question: what would fashion look like if women were in charge? Elektra Kotsoni's intro article looks at some of the obstacles for women in the industry: https://lnkd.in/eJCCtqJe Maliha Shoaib did an amazing piece looking not only at how fashion is failing working mums, but also some of the solutions companies have implemented: https://lnkd.in/ei8uBjKi Bella Webb delved into fashion's attitude to the menopause and how much menopause can impact women in the industry: https://lnkd.in/eMmcBStU Hilary Milnes and Elektra Kotsoni asked female executives for advice on navigating a career in fashion: https://lnkd.in/eKv8G6ba Madeleine Schulz dreamed of what clothing would look like if more women designed it: https://lnkd.in/evwGz5Tg And Christina Binkley examined why we tend to judge female creative directors more harshly: https://lnkd.in/exn6tN8h Well done team!

It's that time of year again: the SS25 men's size inclusivity report is here! Lucy Maguire and Maliha Shoaib, with lots of data collection from Alyshea Wharton, have crunched the numbers for the menswear season just past... and it's not the prettiest picture. Experts say that Ozempic culture could be affecting representation on the runway. So, which brands were more inclusive? Find out here. It's a great read!

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Welcome to the future of shopping. Over the past couple of months, our editors have been investigating, hypothesizing and looking into their crystal balls to find the stores, places and players of the next 10 years. This has culminated in our Future of Shopping editorial package led by Elektra Kotsoni, which includes 17 articles and a podcast series. You can expect: Kirsty McGregor's investigation into what really happened at Matches and what's to come, Hilary Milnes's take on the need for good customer service, Maghan McDowell looks into both the rise and fall of luxury e-commerce platforms, Rachel Cernansky on what how the bricks-and-mortar experience could become more sustainable, Maliha Shoaib's deep dive into why consumer values and consumer behaviours don't always match up, Lucy Maguire's guide to TikTok Shop and Madeleine Schulz's consumer survey into how Gen Z will shape the future of retail. All this and so much more. This project has been such a labour of love and wouldn't have been possible without the design and image dream team Helena Sønderskov and Niall Wilson, Olivia Lower on social, Ella Graveney doing every scrap of subbing and Robyn Brady and Stephanie Martin. I'm always so proud of what our team produces but this is next level (and all released on my fifth anniversary of starting at Vogue Business). Well done team!

In today's edition of 'wow, I've gotten old', the lovely Jane Haynes from the University of Limerick interviewed me for UL Links as it's 10 years since I graduated. Thanks, Jane and the UL team, for making me and my role sound a lot fancier than it feels on a day-to-day basis!

It's that time of year again — this morning, we published our AW24 size inclusivity report. The results are disheartening, with big brands falling down after the green shoots of last season, but there were still certain designers putting in the work. Shoutout to Lucy Maguire, Maliha Shoaib and Madeleine Schulz, who scoured through every look (no mean feat!), and the design stars Helena Sønderskov and Niall Wilson (with help from Giles Butcher) who built the infographics. It's an essential read for anyone in the industry!

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