The Beauty Sessions
Welcome to The Beauty Sessions - Beauty's new strategic authority. Insider conversations with the industry's most influential leaders, hosted by Sophie Blowfield, a world-class brand strategist and beauty consultant.From breakout founders to global executives, Sophie takes…
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Ep 37: Luke Hersheson — Great British Hair, from Keira Knightley to Victoria Beckham (opens the original)
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Few people have shaped British hair like Luke Hersheson. In this episode, Sophie Blowfield sits down with the stylist, entrepreneur and CEO behind Hershesons — the cult brand he built alongside his father, Daniel, from a single King's Road salon into a world of game-changing tools, cult products and reinvented spaces. He's the man behind some of the most iconic cuts of the last few decades, from Keira Knightley and Dua Lipa to Sienna Miller and Victoria Beckham. He and Sophie get into revolution
Ep 36: Bella Falk on Why Luxury Skincare Shouldn't Cost a Fortune (opens the original)
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What if luxury skincare was never meant to cost a fortune? That's the question that started Strange Luxury. In this episode, Sophie Blowfield sits down with founder, Bella Falk — the 28-year-old Australian building one of the most quietly covetable beauty and loungewear worlds around. Determined to recreate the formulas she loved without the luxury price tag, she taught herself the entire supply chain — manufacturers, formulations, trade shows, margins — and built Strange Luxury from the ground
Ep 35: Kira Mackenzie Jackson Enters the Beauty Chat as CMO at m.ph Beauty (opens the original)
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Some people spend a career mastering one lane. Kira Mackenzie Jackson has made a superpower out of refusing to. In this episode, Sophie Blowfield sits down with one of the sharpest minds in consumer brand building — and, as of this August, the new CMO of mph Beauty, Mary Phillips' cult-favourite makeup brand. Kira's path has been anything but linear: a career spanning PR, partnerships and private equity, board and angel-investing roles, and years as Chief Brand Officer at SET Active, the LA acti
Ep 34: Erin Kleinberg, The Serial Founder Behind SIDIA, Coveteur & Métier Creative (opens the original)
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Some people build one great brand in a lifetime. Erin Kleinberg has built several. In this episode — Sophie sits down with the serial founder behind SIDIA, the modern fragrance house rooted in ancestral ritual, self-care, and the legacy of Erin's late grandmother, the brand's namesake. But SIDIA is just one chapter. Erin is also co-founder of Coveteur, the fashion and beauty platform that became a cultural phenomenon by photographing the world's tastemakers inside their own closets, and founder
Ep 33: Solo Episode - Sophie Blowfield On: The 10 Things I'd Do Before Launching a Beauty Brand (opens the original)
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This week I'm doing a solo episode with the question I get asked more than any other, and I wanted to sit down and answer it properly — The 10 Things I'd Do Before Launching a Beauty Brand. I've spent over 16 years in rooms with beauty founders — some right at the very beginning, some three years in and quietly wondering why a beautiful product isn't selling. So this is my difficult-question list — the ten things I'd do, in the order I'd actually do them. It's the top-level version of the work I
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