Of course, in this age of the statement lip, we have our go-tos. When it comes to reds, we swear by Dior Rouge No. 999 in Fiery Red; it’s discontinued but can still be unearthed with a little online sleuthing. For fuchsia, it’s gotta be YSL’s Rouge Volupté in No. 10 Provocative Pink. [...]

Little escapes Giorgio Armani’s famous eye for detail, from the runway right down to the star-studded front row fan club. The Armani faithful always arrive in clothes that blend together beautifully in a carefully considered and controlled palette. This season it was soothing gray tones mingled with black and white, but in the VIP room [...]

Painted, sketched, and photographed by seemingly just about every famous artist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Marchesa Luisa Casati has been many things to many people. The eccentric, flame-haired beauty who wore snakes as necklaces and pranced cheetahs in diamond collars through the streets of Paris, Milan, and Capri played living muse [...]

Despite the black-and-white movie star inspiration at Giorgio Armani’s Armani Privé Couture show earlier this week, the more we flip through the backstage beauty images, the less we’re seeing Ingrid Bergman. The cropped dark hair? The side-swept bangs? The minimal makeup and those defined brows? Is it just us or was there a waft of [...]

When word got out a few weeks back that Giorgio Armani was planning to use Couture week as a launch pad for the visuals of his new women’s scent, Idole d’Armani, it seemed a fitting preface to the fragrance coup he’s hoping to create when the perfume hits the shelves this autumn. Should it all [...]

In a bit of well-curated showmanship, Giorgio Armani will unveil the advertising campaign for his new signature women’s fragrance, Idole d’Armani, during Couture week in Paris next month. The visuals for the new spicy floral star model Kasia Smutniak, and while the Polish-born beauty will likely take a lovely picture, it will be difficult to [...]

The Cosmetic Executive Women organization honored the most innovative beauty products of the year with its CEW Awards on Friday, rewarding manufacturers for a job well done and simultaneously creating the best “best of beauty” guide informed consumers could hope for. Winners were chosen in 28 categories, ranging from makeup and hair care to sun [...]