Ever willing to stretch the limits of artistic expression, Dazed & Confused has a 3-D fashion editorial in its new August issue. Dimension-transporting glasses are included with purchase, which presumably make model Julia Hafstrom leap from the page in a series of Marios Schwab designs. However, we’re more interested in her seriously futuristic makeup, which [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
With the opening of her West 13th Street salon last week, Eva Scrivo has officially gone bicoastal. The new Meatpacking District location is her second in Manhattan, joining her already popular Bond Street haunt. We hadn’t seen the stylist/colorist/radio personality since she wowed us with her handiwork backstage at Catherine Malandrino, so we jumped at [...]

As our intrepid fashion reporters have noted, “flogged-to-tedium eighties referencing” has been a prominent theme this show season—from New York to London, realized in both fashion and beauty form. While François Nars’ masterpiece of 50-plus different punk-inspired creations backstage at Marc Jacobs set the bar high, Roxy Music-esque faces awash in watercolor stayed the course [...]

If you’ve had a moment to flip through any number of magazines in the past few months, you’ve likely seen the new ads for Gucci Fine Jewelry starring Claire Danes. Outside of trying to figure out how it could ever be financially feasible to make the geometric, bejeweled gold cuffs on her wrists our own, [...]

To further illustrate our point from yesterday about the crazy effect of purple shadow on green eyes, Rihanna conveniently sported an opaque color to last night’s launch of Gucci’s Tattoo Heart Collection to benefit UNICEF. Please note: A nude lip, red dress, and jet-black bouffant only serve to further intensify the “whoa” effect here—and also [...]

MGMT gets its first cover in the new issue of Spin (on newsstands next week), and this little gem from the eight-page spread finally gives us an opportunity to join the increasingly prevalent discourse about the psychedelic-pop outfit, which is seemingly everywhere recently—from the Gucci runway to the celebrity gossip mills. Behold, musicians who are [...]

For beauty editors and consumers of affordable cosmetics alike, there are many reasons to love makeup artist Pat McGrath. First and foremost, her friendly-even-in-the-throes-of -backstage-chaos demeanor keeps her among editors’ favorites. And her unmatched ability at coming up with new design concepts—which typically include bold experiments with color—are enough to giver her No. 1 status [...]

Daria Werbowy’s face has become synonymous with high-fashion glamour, but the go-to model for fashion houses like Gucci, Chanel, and Prada looks equally comfortable in Isabel Marant plaid and “hipster hair” as she does in couture dresses and sleek updos. The Canadian model’s perfectly separated, I-just-got-out-of-bed loose waves, shown here in Marant’s A/W 2008 ad [...]