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, [...]

“The theme of the collection, Paris-Byzance, is a great inspiration on its own,” Chanel global creative director of makeup Peter Philips said of Karl Lagerfeld’s Empress Theodora pre-fall show. But it was the famous mosaic rendering of Theodora that resides in Ravenna’s Basilica of San Vitale that played specific muse to both Philips and coiffing [...]

You’ll sadly have to wait until January to get your hands on the Black Pearl and the white, Pearl Drop lacquers Chanel’s global creative director of makeup, Peter Philips, whipped up for Karl Lagerfeld’s Spring show in Paris. But in just one short month, his brilliant varnish from the house’s Cruise collection will be available [...]

“It was clear that we would put the focus on the eyes,” Peter Philips said of the smoldering lids he conceived for the house’s Spring show yesterday, inspired by a Karl Lagerfeld sketch that was heavy on the smoke. The shadow Philips used backstage was more intricate than mere shades of layered obsidian pigments, though. [...]

Peter Philips proved that he knows his way around a tube of lipstick when he launched Chanel’s Rouge Coco back in February. But if there were any lingering doubts that the makeup maestro is the man to beat when it comes to mixing up vibrant, eye-popping pout perfectors, they were laid to rest today backstage [...]

Red lipstick has been on a comeback tour for the past few years, and the latest tribute to the pout color comes courtesy of Peter Philips’ backstage handiwork at last week’s Chanel Couture show. “It’s a real Courtney Love look,” Philips says of the matte pigment, a reference point he admits doesn’t necessarily conjure images [...]