Editors and buyers who arrived at the Upper East Side townhouse Victoria Beckham takes over for her presentation each season expecting to see her typical brand of perfect skin and sleek hair were in for a shock. Each and every model wore a meticulously placed stocking cap and headbands. “I didn’t want it to have [...]

The bleached brow dominated the Spring shows, making appearances at Alexander Wang, Marc Jacobs, Yves Saint Laurent, and Nina Ricci, among others. But halfway through the Fall shows in New York, its death grip on the backstage scene seems to be loosening up. Yes, makeup artist Diane Kendal successfully blocked out arches at Jason Wu [...]

“These are brilliant pencils,” face painter Charlotte Tilbury said at Chloé yesterday, where she was using MAC’s Brow Pencils in Lingering and Fling to create the crux of her makeup look. “You can do everything with them because they have a waxy texture that blends so well,” she continued, creating a slight, highlighted contour across [...]

At Sonia Rykiel’s Spring show, hairstylist Guido Palau was inspired by “an artsy, Left Bank, Parisian woman.” As he tended to a mass of big, soft, brushed-out curls, it was hard not to notice that that mass bore un uncanny resemblance to Rykiel’s own flame-colored frizz. Prepping hair with Redken Thickening Lotion to create body, [...]

Miuccia Prada may have bucked Spring’s seventies trend yesterday with a nod to the high glamour of the thirties, but it was back to business as usual today at Etro, a house that’s all about the opulence and excess that defined the disco era. (Let it be known that an understudy crew of B-list models [...]

Alexander Wang’s Jean-Michel Basquiat beauty reference is getting company this week from another art star: That would be Andy Warhol, whose colorful, silk-screened portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor inspired makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury at Victoria Beckham’s presentation (and James Kaliardos at DVF a few hours later). Tilbury layered two of Lancôme’s Color Design [...]

“Lush, sexy, free, bouncy, and enviable” is how hairstylist Guido Palau described the hair at Chloé yesterday. The gorgeous style with a certain luxury to it has become synonymous with the brand at this point, as anyone who lusted after those unforgettable Raquel Zimmermann-fronted ad images from its Spring 2007 campaign will tell you. Zimmermann, [...]

Charlotte Tilbury is pioneering a 1920’s sepia-photo makeup movement for Fall. After showcasing the beige look backstage at both DKNY and Pringle of Scotland, the makeup artist took it out for a third spin at Sonia Rykiel yesterday, a presentation you can usually count on for cheery pop colors. “The collection is dark and mysterious [...]

Eye shadow has never been one of our go-to beauty items. Sure, we keep a drawer full of shimmering aquas, bright oranges, and metallic silvers on hand, but that’s more of a testament to a tendency to hoard than an inclination to wear them. But lid-layering is emerging as one of Fall’s biggest trends, so [...]

“Film noir” joined “grunge” and “Kate Moss” as an emerging beauty trend when it inspired makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury at Donna Karan yesterday (and Lucia Pieroni at Vera Wang this morning). “It’s actually Snow White meets Greta Garbo,” Tilbury said of the porcelain skin, dark eye, and bright red lip she crafted using a number [...]