Interview

Charlotte Tilbury exclusive: ‘Being a female entrepreneur meant I was largely underestimated by my competitors’

When Charlotte Tilbury set up her eponymous beauty brand, even she couldn’t foresee how big it would get. Now, with a new F1 Academy partnership, and a global reach that stretches to 54 markets, she talks changing the beauty and female-founder game.

“The more I started to work as a makeup artist, the more I could see so many ways in which the customer experience could be enriched from end to end – the concepts, the formulas, the quality, and the performance of products just wasn’t there.”