Before Karl Lagerfeld’s space shuttle Couture show took off yesterday in Paris, he gave Chanel’s creative director of makeup, Peter Philips, a brief with two specific directives: “blue, and make sure they don’t look like stewardesses.” Bearing Lagerfeld’s anti-Pan Am sentiment in mind, Philips kept his attention squarely on the eyes—something the famed face painter [...]

When Chanel creative director of makeup Peter Philips got the word from Karl Lagerfeld that this year’s Métiers d’Art show was to be a nod to classic Indian decadence, his mind went to one place: black kohl. “We wanted a graphic interpretation of an iconic Indian beauty ideal,” Philips said of the almond-shaped black-rimmed lids [...]

The sea, and all of its fluid, textural qualities and mystic creatures, has become a big trend for Spring, informing stand-out shows from Giorgio Armani and Givenchy already this season. But leave it to Karl Lagerfeld and his global creative director of makeup, Peter Philips, to put their own spin on the watery wonderland at [...]

Last night at Jefferson Hack’s Another Magazine bash at The Fat Radish, several guests showed off some bold beauty looks—Daphne Guinness, with her signature streaked, salt-and-pepper hair, and nightlife diva Sophia Lamar’s purple and blue coif among them. But it was China Chow’s pro tips that stopped us in our tracks as we were en [...]

In case it wasn’t clear from the glistening black backdrop and the neon-lit replica of the Place Vendôme that set the stage for last night’s Chanel Couture presentation, a dramatic, evening-inspired theme helped guide the beauty look created by the house’s creative director of makeup, Peter Philips. “Karl mentioned the masculine/feminine silhouette, the fact that [...]

Just in case it wasn’t already abundantly clear, a new “making of” video from the production of Angelina Jolie’s Louis Vuitton ad clearly shows the actress getting made up for her allegedly sans-maquillage print campaign. [Ad Week]
Bad news, diet cola lovers—Karl Lagerfeld included. Two new studies show that guzzling the low-calorie beverages may make you [...]

News flash: Despite what we may have heard, Karl Lagerfeld is NOT involved in a new fragrance that smells like books. Apparently, he’s only working on scents that he is contractually obliged to say he is a part of. [Scented Salamander]
 
Kate Middleton is proving to be quite the down-to-earth bride-to-be. After doing her own makeup [...]

Scarlett Johansson is back in front of the camera again for Dolce & Gabbana The Makeup’s summer color collection. As per usual, she is looking particularly pouty and busty, but this time sporting fuchsia nails, slightly smoked-out eyes, and full brows. [Grazia]
Attention beauty-minded art collectors: Selections from London’s Somerset House’s René Gruau exhibit honoring the [...]

The Chanel show always offers up a well-choreographed example of how the connection between high fashion and beauty can be a seamless one. Karl Lagerfed tells his go-to face painter, Peter Philips, about his sartorial vision—the fabrics, the colors, the themes (which for Fall included a dark forest equipped with dancing shadows and breaks of [...]

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, [...]