If you ever managed to get your mind off the exceptional outerwear at Altuzarra (the coat in look 23 is the first thing we’re truly coveting this season), you may have noticed that Kasia Struss closed the show—and that she’s still a brunette. As a card-carrying member of the “Balenciaga blondes,” the group of girls [...]

“Did you see Gisele?!” came the flurry of questions when we arrived backstage at Alexander Wang before the designer’s Fall show. And while we hadn’t spied the Brazilian supe on our initial survey of Pier 94, we did see Frankie Rayder. And Carmen Kass. And Karolina Kurkova. Is that Shalom Harlow? (It was.)
Wang recruited a [...]

“When you have a brand with a signature feeling, you kind of just go with it,” Redken creative consultant Guido Palau said backstage at Rag & Bone, referencing designers David Neville and Marcus Wainwright’s signature style. And so, as she has in nearly every season past, the downtown cool girl reared her languid, texturized head [...]

Ever since Redken creative consultant Guido Palau championed the ponytail at the Fall 2011 shows, the easy, girl-next-door style has become perfectly acceptable runway—and red carpet—fare. But in an exciting first, the simple technique turned up backstage at Valentino yesterday, making an unlikely appearance at Couture week. Palau was after a “beautiful, innocent” vibe, which [...]

As Redken’s creative consultant, Guido Palau is pretty much set when it comes to products. His backstage arsenal features everything from setting lotions and blow-dry gels to hair sprays and shine serums, which allow him to whip up a wealth of styles, from those sculpted faux bobs at Jil Sander to the sopping wet strands [...]

We’re not going to pretend that we know a whole lot about Piper Perabo. If memory serves, she was in Coyote Ugly; that’s about all we can report. But at the New York Cares Coat Drive at Bloomingdale’s last night, we learned something else about the actress: She’s willing to take risks with runway beauty. [...]

There’s nothing we like more here at Beauty Counter than seeing our favorite backstage beauty moments played out on the red carpet; it takes a really savvy starlet (and her stylist) to realize that plucking a dress from the catwalk for the premiere circuit is much more impactful if you bring the accompanying hair and [...]

As my angled bob continues to barrel through awkward stage after awkward stage on its way to achieving its full regrowth potential, I’m constantly on the hunt for new ways to wear my hair. The Spring shows, as they so often do, offered up a considerable number of options—some more doable than others without the [...]

If the lace masks at Sarah Burton’s show for Alexander McQueen looked familiar, it’s because anyone who made it to the wildly successful exhibition celebrating the house’s late namesake designer at the Met this summer has seen something like them before. “The idea came from the masks we created for the McQueen exhibit,” confirmed Guido [...]

If there were a single word to describe the hair and makeup backstage at Valentino, it would be “pretty.” Pier Paolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri have made the descriptor something of a mantra since taking the reins at the house and have instructed their go-to glam squad of Pat McGrath and Guido Palau to [...]