Looking offshore for skincare solutions took off after Max Huber started marketing his Crème de la Mer “miracle broth” back in the eighties. Deep-sea water, salts, mud, and even blue-green and red algae have been blended, bottled, and branded as sunken treasure for your complexion. Somewhat less well utilized are the creatures that inhabit the [...]

C.O. Bigelow is one of New York’s most notable beauty treasures. Established in 1838, the oldest apothecary in America still sits at the corner of Sixth Avenue and West 9th Street, chock-full of time-tested skin salves and other potions to soothe what ails ya. Come February 1, the downtown staple is opening a satellite outpost [...]

Fashion’s Night Out is quickly approaching, and for those of you whose hearts go pitter-patter for makeovers more than for extended hours at Louis Vuitton, here are a few initiatives that should get the blood pumping—that is, if the Diddy PSA didn’t already do the trick. Click here for a full list of participants and [...]

The charming apothecary is alive and well in New York’s West Village—reaching beyond C.O. Bigelow’s monolithic Sixth Avenue digs and stretching down to Carmine Street, where the first stand-alone Patyka store in the United States recently opened its doors. Decorated with mostly earth tones, the 450-square-foot space is the visual embodiment of the French company’s [...]