Getting the scoop backstage at Diane von Furstenberg’s Fall show was just as much a lesson in etymology as a tutorial in hair and makeup. “It’s more like a rendezvous as opposed to a meeting,” Orlando Pita said, trying to hone in on the beauty mood from von Furstenberg’s collection. “A meeting has expectations, [...]

If the editor response at Joseph Altuzarra’s Fall show was any indication, real women are going to be pretty excited to wear his clothes next season—and that was exactly what hairstylist Paul Hanlon was banking on. “It’s like what an everyday girl on the street would wear,” he said backstage of the corresponding hair look [...]

“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 [...]

“The casting’s really considered, so I thought the hair should be, too,” hairstylist Paul Hanlon said backstage at Prabal Gurung yesterday, where the designer’s “uncursed”-themed show, which explored the ideas of heaven and hell through periods of black, then blue, then gold and white, necessitated a similarly linear coif. “The girls at the beginning have [...]

After making its debut backstage at Marc Jacobs two seasons ago, the “dominatrix ponytail” has been getting a lot of backstage play. But the high, tight, and totally intimidating updo at Jason Wu this afternoon came with a message that was less fetish and more fighter. “Be strong! Go for it!” was hairstylist Odile Gilbert’s [...]

“I remember when Peter was making clothes for teenagers,” makeup artist Tom Pecheux said backstage at Peter Som this morning, reminiscing about his long-standing relationship with the designer. “But every season, his woman is growing up,” Pecheux continued. Fall 2012 is no exception. To contrast the “grown up” feeling of Som’s clothes, [...]

Ruffian fans the world over presumably look back on Brian Wolk and Claude Morais’ Fall 2009 show fondly. Their polished collection that season was capped off by a limited-edition makeup collaboration with MAC Cosmetics that resulted in Ruffian Red, a bold crimson lipstick that was used in the show and sold for a brief time [...]

Last season, while making the international rounds for the Spring shows, something happened. I was backstage at Paul Smith in London, talking shop with makeup artist Petros Petrohilos, when he produced a small glass tub of bright red pigment and proceeded to apply it onto models’ lips and directly underneath their cheekbones for a sheer, [...]

First it was “Hitler youth” haircuts, and now The New York Times is reporting on another hipster hair movement that’s on the rise: the man bun. Breaking Brooklyn news, at its best. [NYT]
Beth Ditto is the latest boldfaced name to get her own color collection with MAC Cosmetics. The limited-edition offering is slated to hit [...]

With her directorial debut W.E. finally making the premiere rounds, Madonna has been hitting the red carpet of late, with her signature red lip very much still intact. At the film’s U.K. premiere in London last night, Madge proved that she still owns crimson long after making it her thing way back in the eighties. [...]