As the beauty industry grows to encompass values of wellness, uniqueness, and acceptance, it’s vital that it leads the way in inclusivity and action. So how can brands focus on product development and design that appeals to people with disabilities, ensuring across-the-board representation?

Gucci is building an internal inclusion strategy to create greater opportunities for people with disabilities. With employees opting for companies that are committed to long-term change around DEI, Gucci's strategy recognises that internal policy can generate a wider change in culture.

How is skincare helping people destress? What’s driving the mass shift towards clean and ethical beauty? How is the industry attempting to decolonise its practices? In this part of the 2022 Expert Outlook, we speak to three experts about how people are seeking new meaning in beauty rituals.

French design studio, Imprudence, is creating visionary, hypothetical products that question current beauty ideals and highlight the possibilities of our future. As tech rewrites beauty standards and inspires people to get creative, can ‘scenario planning’ help brands to create and innovate?