We had a weird déjà vu yesterday while poring over images from the Miu Miu runway. Those long braids swung over one shoulder? Was this early September in New York? Had the Alexander Wang girl hopped a plane to Paris, forgone her Sunday football inclinations, and embraced a series of girly prints and sequined dresses? [...]

OK, OK. We know that we’ve been paying a lot of attention to the no-brow look that has dominated the Spring shows, but here’s a little something for those of you who are decidedly against bleaching, waxing, or glue-sticking your arches for a full-forehead effect. Makeup artist Diane Kendal has been single-handedly championing the full [...]

With a rampant series of braids showing up from Alexander Wang to Jean Paul Gaultier this season—not to mention the pigtail party at Prada—it was only a matter of time before the trickle-down effect of newly popular childhood hairstyles would start appearing off the catwalk as well. Elettra Wiedemann is therefore something of an early [...]

Nothing says “American sportswear” quite like the image of the girl-next-door models that dominated the 1970s and early eighties —Brooke Shields, more specifically whose long locks and big bushy brows defined the era. To properly simulate the Blue Lagoon star backstage at Alexander Wang yesterday, Redken’s Guido Palau added long extensions to models’ hair [...]

During fashion week, the line between friends and publicists, hair stylists, and makeup artists gets blurred since you see very little of the former and a whole lot of the latter. Abiding by this line of reasoning, I count Odile Gilbert as a compatriot for two months out of the year. Known as “the high [...]

With designer collaborations becoming de rigueur over the past few years, we are of the mind that beauty has gotten the short end of the proverbial stick. Outside of Lancôme’s Pout-à-Porter lipstick series, instances of hot designers partnering with beauty brands have been few and far between. But two new projects set to debut this [...]

When we saw an orange-hued hairline peeking out of the scarf-cum-hood (scood, if you will) Vlada Roslyakova wore at Alexander Wang this past weekend, we thought our eyes were deceiving us. But after a few backstage encounters yesterday, first at Preen and then at DKNY, we were able to confirm our suspicions: Yes, the Russian [...]

Alexander Wang may not have staged a rowdy after-party this year—much to the chagrin of downtown scenesters and their wannabe hangers-on—but there was plenty of throwing down backstage at Roseland Ballroom last night, where in one of the more odd sponsorships we’ve seen, Hooters and its scantily clad girls were doling out chicken wings and [...]

Serving up a mattified nude nail backstage at the Alexander Wang show last night, Butter London Creative Director Nonie Creme was touting the benefits of looking through your makeup bag and discovering all the different ways you can use what you already have. “It’s a really relevant beauty story for 2009,” Creme said, referencing the [...]

Supermodel/fashion muse/jewelry designer Erin Wasson ranks right up there at the top of our “favorite catwalkers of all time” list for a number of reasons: first there’s her Texas tomboy past (any girl who can talk—and play—basketball while moonlighting as a major fashion icon is A-OK by us); then there’s the downtown, devil-may-care style sensibility [...]