The best-looking new beauty spots from London to Los Angeles

Clean Market, New York City

The holistically-charged Clean Market has hit the streets of Manhattan. The surgery-clean, all-white destination spins on the notion of a classic day spa, instead calling upon infrared saunas, IV drips and cryotherapy treatments. The on-site Nutridrip drip lounge provides wellness-enhanced vitamin supplements, perpetuating the Clean Market ethos of beauty originating within. Read more about Clean Market here.

240 East 54th Street, New York, NY 10022. www.cleanmarket.com

Hershesons, London

Hershesons has opened the doors to its newest one-stop beauty salon flagship in Fitzrovia, London. The 5,000 sq ft space on Berners Street rejects conventional ideas surrounding the traditional salon model, with an approach it hopes is more relevant to how we live our lives now, combining a beauty space, co-working space and social space, wrapped into one, multi-functional (and stylish) model. Since its 1992 beginnings, Hershesons has championed groundbreaking ideas in beauty. A true frontrunner in industry-wide innovation, it invented concepts such as the straightening iron and blow-dry bars. Now, it seems, it is championing the ‘customer is king’ model in a beauty and grooming context, where services (including third-party offerings) are built entirely around you, your schedule, and lifestyle.

29-32 Berners St, Fitzrovia, London W1T 3LR. www.hershesons.com

Aesop, by Snøhetta, London

Designed by Norwegian interior architect and seven-time collaborator Snøhetta, Aesop’s 100 sq m Sloane Square flagship is a subtle choreography of light, warmth and scent. The minimalist beauty guru’s 200th location, pitched on the corner of Duke Square, and surrounded by a catalogue of elegant white-box stores, is rendered floor to ceiling in rust-red clay, inviting in passers-by from the Chelsea cold.

‘The idea of street presence was central for us,’ says senior architect Peter Girgis. ‘Originating and rising up from this large central element, we wanted warm-tones to beat out onto the street.’ A Devonshire clay-plaster column arches from the floor into what Girgis describes as ‘an architectural tree’. It spans the ceiling, covering it in a breathable, atmosphere-enhancing texture that will help to ventilate the lightly-scented space. The ‘trunk’ surrounds a 4.5 sq m ‘water table’ (pictured), upon which a slim veil of water cascades into four tin bath-sized fibre glass sinks, used for skin consultations.

Aesop, 22-24 Duke of York Square, London, England; www.aesop.com

Photography: Paola Pansini

86 Champs, by Laura Gonzales, Paris

Perfumer L’Occitane and ‘Picasso of pastry’ Pierre Hermé have created a hybrid ‘store’ on the Champs Élysées, designed to test our senses, and our preconceptions of what a beauty boutique should be.

Stalwarts of their respective industries, the two brands are natural bedfellows, sharing a heritage, luxury leaning. Intended to celebrate the high quality ingredients behind both, 86 Champs is a heady, fourfold experiment, offering a dessert bar for initiating yourself in the art of pastry, a coffee station for discovering ‘coffee according to Pierre Hermé’, and a restaurant, for a savoury interlude between dessert courses. Adding an olfactory twist, L’Occitane presents an interactive, in-store perfumery and scent installation, where guests come nose-to-nose with raw L’Occitane ingredients and production methods. Interior designer Laura Gonzalez aimed to create ‘a welcoming and refined place where objects, scents or tastes express osmosis between the two Maisons’.

86 Avenue des Champs-Élysées, 75008 Paris, France; fr.loccitane.com

Riley Rose, by FutureBrand Uxus, Los Angeles

Millennial pink makes the girls and boys wink. At least that’s the thinking behind FutureBrand UXUS’s latest retail concept in Los Angeles. It’s something a little different from the Amsterdam-based design studio, who are also behind Tate Modern’s innovative Switch House store. At Riley Rose, UXUS aims to ‘bring the social media experience to bricks and mortar’.

To do so, it has made the spaces wholly interactive, with product trial opportunities, so-called ‘shareable moments’, unique pop-ups and in-the-know staff on hand. A palate of blusher-pinks and smokey-eye greys complete the bubblegum-popping interiors, which despite their levity, are beautifully crafted and sensitively arranged in typical UXUS fashion.

Riley Rose, 2131 Galleria Way, Glendale, California 91210, USA; www.rileyrose.com