The Glossy 50 honors the year’s biggest changemakers across fashion and beauty. More from the series →
They leveraged science or technology to gain an edge and prove new concepts.
Joshua Britton has a lot to be proud of this year. Debut Biotech, the company he founded in 2019 and runs as CEO, launched its first consumer brand in January, called Deinde. It also expanded its partnership with L’Oréal Group to develop and scale more than a dozen bio-identical ingredients that could replace conventionally sourced ingredients in its global product assortment.
After seven years in business, Angela Caglia Skincare has had its best year to date. The company has experienced 437% sales growth and retail expansion, largely owed to the success of Cell Forté Serum, its powerhouse product offering launched in October of 2023.
For beauty consumers, 2024 was the year of the scalp. But for Christine Hall, the work to develop this category for the U.S. market started nearly a decade ago. Partially fueled by the growing attention on the scalp in Asian countries like Korea and Japan, Hall and her team studied the scalp and the ingredients that help it to thrive. This summer, they debuted the first products based on that research.
This year, driven by co-founder and CEO Ricardo Larroudé, the 4-year-old fashion brand Larroudé benefitted big from transitioning its business to a new model described as “direct-to-demand.”
Pact Collective first launched take-back collection bins in Credo’s 15 stores and has since become the in-store recycler for retailers including Sephora, Ulta Beauty and COS Bar. In total, the non-profit works with more than 140 brands and retailers and has diverted more than 300,000 pounds of waste from landfills in its first three years. Carly Snider, the company’s executive director, has led much of the company’s growth.
