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Nude nails made a comeback at the Fall shows and continued to dominate more outlandish, allout nail art experiments for Spring—with a few notable exceptions, that is. Missoni and McQueen got minxed and Sophy Robson etched individual hieroglyphics onto tips backstage at Topshop Unique, while Jin Soon christened the “slim silhouette” backstage at Prabal Gurung. [...]

We first saw them last season at Chloé, where Charlotte Tilbury was crafting the “chicer side of hippie”: freckles—lots of them, stenciled across the bridge of the nose and onto cheeks, “just where the sun would hit you,” the makeup artist explained. It was a quirky touch that worked with the rocker chick, music festival [...]

Since the nail art craze commenced two seasons ago, the old-school mandate of matching lips and tips pretty much went out the window (while a leopard-print pout is not unattainable, it is inadvisable). But there seems to be a backlash against all that for Spring, as corresponding lacquers and lipsticks are making a bit of [...]

Where had we seen this before, we thought to ourselves when we happened upon Wella global creative director Eugene Souleiman’s voluminous donut-shaped chignons at Donna Karan? “I’ve seen this shape before,” Souleiman concurred, “but I’ve never seen it with this texture,” a matte finish he’d created by prepping strands with a mix of Wella’s Ocean [...]

Karlie Kloss is probably best known for those brow-tastic Marc Jacobs campaigns and her impressive stature. At 5′ 11″, the Midwesterner towers over many of her cohorts, kicking her long legs out in front of her body for one of the most mind-boggling walks in the biz. Believe it or not, Kloss is also one [...]

“We live in fast modern times, and we have to simplify. And that includes how a woman gets dressed; what we’re absolutely not asking for is overcomplication,” Donna Karan told London’s Guardian a few years back. Hence her “seven easy pieces,” clothes that could go from day to night, from New York to New Delhi, [...]

Lacquer lovers that we are, we’ve come to look forward to a Deborah Lippmann sighting backstage at the shows. Last season at Zac Posen, we got to preview Supermodel, her bright red jelly polish, and sure enough, she turned up at Donna Karan yesterday, with a handful of new polishes in tow. While painting girls’ [...]

The glitz and glamour of last night’s star-studded CFDA Awards didn’t get under way until the early evening, but the prep work at Alice Tully Hall was going strong all afternoon long. Champagne flutes were getting unpacked, the red carpet was being rolled out, and name cards were being filed in alphabetical order by an [...]

Red lips were all over the Fall catwalks in New York, making a slew of Valentine’s Day weekend appearances, followed by encores at Max Azria, Donna Karan, Reem Acra, and Nanette Lepore. Kate Bosworth took the popular hue from the runway to reality last night, sporting a gorgeous shade of glossy crimson to the Calvin [...]