Anna Sui’s cosmetics range became a favorite with beauty gurus and editors alike when it debuted almost ten years ago. After disappearing for a while due to some unresolved licensing “issues,” the collection of brightly colored, boudoir-inspired eye shadows, lip glosses, and nail lacquers has been in slow-moving comeback mode (elaborate “beauty bars” were erected [...]

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Anna Sui’s first foray into cosmetics and fragrance, a suite was set up backstage at her show last night, displaying the full color line and collection of perfumes. The rose-scented makeup went M.I.A for a little while, but it’s back in full effect with five new lip glosses, five [...]

Despite sporting a longer coif equipped with vision-impairing fringe these days, model Agyness Deyn is not necessarily forgoing the short spiky hair that helped give her “super” status. “I just haven’t gotten it cut in a while,” Deyn explained to us backstage at Anna Sui in her northern English accent. “It is so long now, [...]

During the Spring show season, designers often pass down a “warm” mandate to the makeup artist in charge backstage. This is why, aside from a few rogue dissenters, you frequently see a bevy of rosy cheeks walking down the runway come September. Spring 2009 was no exception to this general rule, although in a particularly [...]

In addition to the usual fare backstage at Anna Sui last night—models, mayhem, and mini-burgers, if craft services is really on its game—a “beauty bar” was set up to display the designer’s makeup range. While you may be familiar with a few choice items from Sui’s cosmetics line—bright shadows and blushes housed in pretty deep [...]

Talent and ingenuity aside, famed makeup artist Pat McGrath has another trick up her sleeve when it comes to keeping models looking fresh-faced before sending them down the runway. McGrath is said to be a fan of SK-II’s Signs Eye Mask which she will surely have on hand while painting faces at Oscar de la [...]

If you happened to be walking down Fifth Avenue last night, you may’ve noticed more than a few faces pressed against the window at Henri Bendel, not to mention a slew of flashbulbs, screaming young girls, and equally excited grown men spilling onto the street. It was the kind of frenzy that only a collaboration [...]