Gareth Pugh is no stranger to the wonderful world of makeup. “Every day I wear black eye liner—top and bottom—right in the corners, and I smudge it a little bit with my finger,” Pugh says, revealing that MAC Studio Fix foundation and its Lip Conditioner also make it into his bag on the regular. Still, [...]

We broke the news last month that Gareth Pugh would be bringing his special brand of gothic futurism to the beauty sphere through a collaboration with MAC Cosmetics. Last night, the makeup giant made it official. “We look for collaborations with young designers; that’s why we’ve always been so supportive of Gareth and what he [...]

Gareth Pugh is best known in the beauty-sphere for the otherworldly backstage looks that he cooks up with makeup artist Alex Box each season for his high-concept ready-to-wear presentations. Who can forget Pugh’s Goddesses From the Grave Spring 2010 show, featuring a barrage of models sporting a gray complexion (courtesy of an airbrushed application of [...]

Seeing as how Alex Box has already proved that her face-painting skills will not be confined to two dimensions, the makeup artist’s avant-garde experiment backstage at Gareth Pugh seemed perfectly par for the course. “Religious iconography” is how Box described the inspiration for the gold and blue laser-cut eye patches that she made for the [...]

Minx has been grabbing headlines left and right in recent weeks. In addition to securing a U.S. patent on its unique method for applying non-liquid graphic films to nails (imitators, beware) and introducing a new collaboration series with super-manicurists like Lisa Logan (Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, and Queen Latifah) and Marian Newman (Givenchy, Vivienne Westwood, [...]

The fact that makeup artist Alex Box has an affinity for all things freakish and otherworldly is not news to anyone familiar with either her handiwork backstage at Gareth Pugh or her brand Illamasqua. So the 12 characters she’s dreamt up for the U.K.-based company’s fall ad campaign shouldn’t shock you too much. They should, [...]

“Would I wear a man’s fragrance? Absolutely,” Daisy Lowe told us last night at Harvey Nichols for the launch of Marc Jacobs’ new men’s scent, Bang. “Especially this one. It is very peppery, but in an edgy, musky, woody way. Sort of like Marc himself,” Lowe added with a laugh. The raven-haired model showed up [...]

As the creative director behind Illamasqua and Gareth Pugh’s go-to makeup artist, Alex Box isn’t really known for her way with the “natural look.” Case in point: For Pugh’s Spring presentation, Box sent ashen gray faces onto the runway, with red eyes for that extra touch of creepy. Her unique ability to turn cosmetics [...]

To properly achieve the much discussed dawn-of-the-dead look backstage at his Spring show yesterday, Gareth Pugh needed more than just sleep-deprived models and some well-placed soot. So he called on Alex Box, a frequent Pugh collaborator and the co-creator of our favorite goth makeup line, Illamasqua. Box had pieces of black and white mirrored plastic [...]

Sitting front-row at Gareth Pugh definitely necessitates a dark-and-stormy statement look of some kind, and Rihanna delivered, showing off her new blond highlights with a deep purple lip. Ironically, we tried on that very pout yesterday while playing with a few items from MAC’s newest collections in the privacy of our own home. (Sometimes, it [...]