Normandy it was not, but the fresh-cut rose, dahlia, and tulip centerpieces that dotted the tables set up at the Chateau Marmont yesterday for Dior’s sneak peak at its new Spring beauty offerings were a close second to Christian Dior’s childhood garden in the French coastal town. Between chitchat and nibbling on pretty pastel macarons, [...]

If the design inspirations at the Dior Couture show yesterday seemed all over the place—architect Frank Gehry, French interior design star Jean-Michel Frank, the Memphis design group of the 1980’s—the backstage team of Pat McGrath on makeup and Guido Palau on hair took it to another level. “We’re contrasting the sculptural lines of Art Deco,” [...]

As a juror at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Uma Thurman has to see every movie in official selection contention—and look good doing it. Last night’s premiere of Lars von Trier’s Melancholia was no exception. Going with sculpted brows and perfect skin, the actress threw a curveball in the form of her Rouge Dior Lipcolor [...]

Proper Riviera beauty typically takes its cues from the sun—a little bronzer here, some shimmer lotion there—but when the Cannes Film Festival comes to town, all of that changes. “You can’t think about Cannes without thinking about Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve,” celebrity makeup artist for Christian Dior Christophe Danchaud told us from the newly [...]

The makeup Pat McGrath whipped up for Dior’s Rene Gruau-inspired Spring couture show wasn’t drastically different from the look of her South Pacific pinup girls for the house’s Fall ready-to-wear presentation, but there was one major change: the lipstick. Back in October it was Rouge Dior Lipcolor in No. 752 Favori Red, a blood orange; [...]

We’re in a reminiscent mood here at Style.com. So far this month, we’ve brought you all the biggest headlines, the year’s most revealing trend, our best front-row snaps, and don’t forget our Courtney Love scrapbook. That’s a lot of memories, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t paint an equally compelling behind-the-scenes picture. As far [...]

Getting your brows done at 5 a.m.? How about penciling in a spray tan at 11 p.m.? Round-the-clock beauty services are cropping up in cities across the country to accommodate clients’ jam-packed agendas. More proof that beauty never rests. [NYT]
Tap, sparkling, or glacial? Starting in 2012, Parfums Christian Dior will infuse its skincare products exclusively [...]

Pop art showed up as backstage beauty inspiration earlier in the season—first at Diane von Furstenberg, by way of a vivid fuchsia lip, and then at Victoria Beckham with saturated violet lids. So when we first laid eyes on the multihued eye shadow onslaught at Christian Dior today, we assumed that Andy Warhol’s influence was [...]

With an array of tulip-shaped coats and dresses making their way down the Dior Couture runway yesterday, it was hard to take your eyes off of John Galliano’s bright bouquet of one-of-a-kind frocks. Unless, of course, you were already fixated on hairstylist Orlando Pita’s sculptural, sky-high coifs wrapped in Stephen Jones’ cellophane-inspired headgear, and the [...]

The perfectly painted lips, sultry smoky eyes, and polished coifs seen on the red carpet at Cannes over the past week don’t just happen. Hair and makeup teams have been flown to the Riviera from around the globe to attend to the bevy of starlets promoting their flicks there. Dior has even set up an [...]