In a landscape where clean luxury beauty increasingly shape the future of the industry, conversations with pioneers become essential. This new Carte Blanche episode of Visionary Minds, produced by Dix Sept Paris, offers rare clean luxury beauty insights and invites one of the most influential figures — Tata Harper — to share her perspective in complete freedom. With no script and no questions, this format offers pure insight into the mindset, values and creative vision that have helped shape some of the most important shifts in the beauty industry over the past 15 years.

The luxury beauty world is evolving rapidly, driven by innovation, sustainability, and ingredient transparency. Tata Harper has played a fundamental role in establishing what we now recognise as clean luxury beauty, and her insights capture the mindset behind this transformation.

Tata Harper stands at the intersection of these conversations.

Her voice carries weight because she has lived these principles long before they became trends. In this Carte Blanche, she reflects on:

• the early resistance to natural, high-performance skincare

• the evolution of consumer consciousness

• the scientific and creative tension between nature and innovation

• why refusing shortcuts shaped her entire brand philosophy

For anyone working in luxury, beauty, brand building or storytelling, her perspective is a rare opportunity to hear the why behind the movement — directly from someone who helped start it.

The luxury beauty industry is experiencing one of its most profound transitions:
sustainability, ingredient transparency, and long-term environmental impact are no longer niche topics — they’re reshaping the expectations placed on brands.

Tata Harper stands at the intersection of these conversations.

Her voice carries weight because she has lived these principles long before they became trends. In this Carte Blanche, she reflects on:

• the early resistance to natural, high-performance skincare

• the evolution of consumer consciousness

• the scientific and creative tension between nature and innovation

• why refusing shortcuts shaped her entire brand philosophy

For anyone working in luxury, beauty, brand building or storytelling, her perspective is a rare opportunity to hear the why behind the movement — directly from someone who helped start it.

This Carte Blanche offers a compact but rich set of reflections, including:

– The origins of clean luxury beauty

How consumers’ shifting awareness in the mid-2000s created a new space for innovation — and how Tata balanced science, complexity and responsibility in her early work.

– The invisible challenges behind natural formulations

Why the beauty industry relied on synthetic shortcuts for decades, and what it meant to build formulas from scratch in an environment not designed for it.

– Nature as a source of innovation

From extremophile plants to longevity mechanisms in the natural world — insights into how biological intelligence can inspire high-performance skincare.

– A deeper view of sustainability

Not as a buzzword, but as a system: manufacturing choices, ingredient philosophy, packaging, and the responsibility that comes with scale.

– A founder’s perspective on integrity

Why long-term trust and values matter more than speed or trends, especially in the luxury sector.

The episode is short, but dense — a distilled expression of what drives someone who changed an entire category.

Visionary Minds is a podcast produced by Dix Sept Paris, a creative agency specialised in luxury and beauty. Through conversations with industry leaders, we explore the ideas, cultural shifts and creative frameworks shaping the future of luxury, offering ongoing clean luxury beauty insights for brands and decision-makers.

Our mission is to create conversations with leaders who redefine their industries — offering strategic inspiration for brands, creatives and decision-makers.

We work with houses such as Chloé and other leaders shaping the future of luxury and beauty, helping them craft stories that resonate globally.

This Carte Blanche with Tata Harper is part of our ongoing commitment to sharing long-form insight, industry perspective and authentic creative dialogue.