17 posts tagged "Fendi"
Scent of A Stylish Woman
Summer is not usually a time for new fragrance discovery. It’s just too damn hot, to be frank. But now that breezy days are becoming a more regular occurrence, we feel ready to start thinking about our Fall fragrance repertoire, and it looks to be particularly fashionable this season. Designers from all of the style capitals are releasing new signature scents and with fashion week right around the corner, we thought we’d devote a round of sniff tests to rag trade regulars dabbling in the olfactory arts.
Fan di Fendi
To relaunch its fragrance house, Fendi looked internally for inspiration, plucking the Forever buckle from its iconic Baguette bag to grace its new bottle. The fragrance itself is as rich as it looks; created by perfumer François Demachy it has a lavish blend of Calabrian tangerine, yellow jasmine, Damascena rose, and Indonesian patchouli that is noticeably long-lasting.
$76, available at Saks Fifth Avenue, 611 Fifth Avenue, NYC; (212) 753-4000.
cK Forbidden Euphoria
Billed as a younger, sexier version of the first Euphoria scent, it’s not just the notes that have changed with this fruity floral: There’s also a new face. Blue-eyed beauty Natalia Vodianova has been replaced by Brooke Shields lookalike Barbara Palvin. She continues the cK tradition of titillating ads; the sexual innuendo in this one is explicit, as per usual. On the skin, the perfume’s bright mix of mandarin, peach blossom, pink peony, and cashmere woods retains the sophistication of its predecessor with a new spicy richness.
$80, www.macys.com.
High And Mighty: Big, Retro Hair Is Back
Twiggy may have favored the sleeker, side-parted chignon that Guido Palau revisited at Alberta Ferretti this season, but the rest of the Sixties social set was much more interested in styles embodied by a single word: height. And so, to properly compliment Tomas Maier’s shift dresses and cardi sets at Bottega Veneta this weekend, Palau provided just that—heavily backcombed, texturized updos. “Rich ’60s glamor” is how he described his coifs, which he prepped with Redken Guts 10 Volume Spray Foam for body, side parted and gathered into either a low ponytail or a French twist, pinning and securing with a halo of Redken Forceful 23 Super Strength Finishing Spray. It harked back to the volume and silhouette of Sam McKnight’s streaked, rolled, Hitchcockian styles at Fendi last week, Eugene Souleiman’s half-up, half-down version at Peter Som, and the towering designs at Ruffian and Suno as well. Like the tall toppers that made a splash for Fall 2010, high and mighty is turning out to be a, um, big idea for Fall 2011.
Streaks Of Genius, Backstage At Fendi
If you thought colored hair streaks were on their way out after hitting their peak for Spring 2010, think again. We’ve already seen them at Prabal Gurung, Tracy Reese, Theyskens’ Theory, and Jeremy Scott for Fall and today they turned up at Fendi, where coiffing star Sam McKnight was working teal, golden yellow, dark raspberry, and red extensions into complex updos. Referencing the high collars Karl Lagerfeld sent down the runway, McKnight prepped his “gothic” strands with Sebastian Mousse Forte to add guts and thickness to the hair, adding single strips of color near models’ hairlines that were swept up into “structured and severe” rolls reminiscent of a Hitchcock heroine. Part twist, part chignon, part slept-in/after-party hair, the whole thing was kept together with copious amounts of Pantene hair spray.
“Moody” makeup courtesy of Peter Philips complemented McKnight’s disheveled, off-kilter sets and featured seriously smoldering lids that came in both shimmering charcoal and aubergine incarnations. Following Lagerfeld’s directive to “focus on the eyes,” Philips blended the creamy pigments from Chanel’s new-for-fall Illusion d’Ombre eye shadows all the way up to models’ brow bones, lining the inner rims with its Eye Kohl in Clair (a light beige) to help keep things bright amid all the smokiness. A light dusting of Chanel’s forthcoming Joues Contraste Blush in Rose Ecrin added a slight flush to the outer edges of models’ cheekbones, while a finger-dabbing of its Pro Lumière Foundation toned down lips. Might it be a call for a similarly styled Daphne Guinness to take her signature skunk stripe in a new, more colorful direction? Only time will tell.
Brown Is The New Blond
“Balenciaga blond”—that perfectly platinum shade of bright flaxen that dominated at the Spring shows—seems to have fallen out of favor with the catwalking set. While Abbey Lee Kershaw is staying true to her Orlando Pita peroxide dye job, her icy-haired counterparts are switching it up. After Natasha Poly hinted at the chestnut change that was in the air at Givenchy last season, we have watched with relative awe over the past few weeks as Britt Maren and Emily Senko—both former blondes—turned up chocolate at Alexander Wang. Agnete Hegelund cashed in her platinum locks for a dark auburn that debuted at Couture and wowed at Rodarte as one of the only non-golden-wheat heads of hair to walk at the Mulleavys’ Midwest-inspired Fall outing. Even Ajak Deng’s platinum buzz cut—which was a signature at New York shows like Richard Chai, Nicole Miller, and Jen Kao—went noticeably missing in London, where she was back to her darker, natural color at Giles. But it wasn’t until we spotted Siri Tollerød at Fendi this morning that the brown-is-back movement really hit home. Not Siri! we thought when we saw the poster child for cornsilk white, Nordic strands sporting a dirty blond, bordering-on-light-brown look. “It’s hard to keep up,” Tollerød’s agent told us when we inquired about the transformation. After a bleach session with colorist Laurie Foley at Marc Jacobs two season ago, Tollerød has apparently embarked on a long grow-out phase in which the professionals at Ion Studio have taken her blond down a notch to blend in with her roots as they grow in. Words to the wise: Platinum makes for a pretty picture (and can skyrocket a runway career), but it’s brutal on the hair shaft. For Fall 2011, you’re better off brunette.
The Beauty Evolution Of The Princess Of Rock ‘N’ Roll
We’ve always had a little bit of a girl crush on Riley Keough. There’s something about the way she bears an uncanny resemblance to Elvis, Priscilla, and Lisa Marie Presley—with a touch of Kristen Stewart thrown in—that’s downright mesmerizing. Also captivating were her long, tawny locks, before she chopped them off and dyed them a warm chestnut brown this summer for a role in a new werewolf movie due out next year. Her most recent beauty move? Bangs and a fluorescent fuchsia lip à la Fendi S/S 2011 at last night’s opening of the Mick Rock exhibit in L.A. Which look do you think suits the King’s granddaughter best?