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 [...]

Spring’s wet look is shaping up to be a trend of transcontinental proportions. What started last week in New York as a post exertion sweaty flush at Alexander Wang became post-shvitz at Costello Tagliapietra and Alexandre Herchcovitch, and has apparently evolved even further into a post-swim—or perhaps post-typhoon—drench, as evidenced by the Paul Smith Women [...]

The torrential downpour that preceded the Alexander Wang show yesterday produced a packed backstage area full of soaking-wet, sweaty photographers, models, editors, TV crews, and publicists, but made Shiseido Artistic Director Dick Page’s “humidity chic” makeup look seem almost effortless. “It’s like post dancing,” he said of the unintentionally weather-friendly face he conceived long before [...]