Last season’s collective cat-eye homage has seen its fair share of updates and adaptations for Fall, showing up in a range of different colors and graphic shapes over the past few weeks. But there’s still something nice about seeing a plain black flick in its unadulterated state. “Bring it fuller to make it more cool,” [...]

“Karl likes an eye,” Peter Philips admitted backstage at Fendi this morning—a partiality that Lagerfeld has certainly made clear over the last three seasons at the Italian house. And while following Spring’s gold and silver foil eye shadow was certainly no small task, Philips made quick work of it for Fall, painting lids with a [...]

The ponytail is having a strong showing for Fall. After backstage turns in New York at Anna Sui, Marc by Marc Jacobs, The Row, and Jason Wu, the simple style has been equally big in London, making appearances at Erdem and Jonathan Saunders. But the updo may have had its most fiery moment last [...]

Just hours before he showed his Fall collection yesterday, Jonathan Saunders called his coiffing collaborator, Paul Hanlon, and asked him to change the hair for the show. “The look we’d created at the fitting was covering the clothes a little,” Hanlon later explained backstage. “So we had to rethink the whole thing, really simplify it [...]

Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez have a thing for boyish beauty. Face contours and full brows have become as essential to a Proenza Schouler collection as an emphasis on hand-crafting, which makes Diane Kendal’s job fairly easy. “It’s really simple—classic Proenza,” Kendal said of the makeup backstage at the designers’ Fall show, blending MAC Sculpting [...]

Hats on the runway present an interesting dilemma for hairdressers: how do you do something that’s simple enough to sit well underneath a headpiece, but still complex so that it makes an impact on its own? At Donna Karan, Eugene Souleiman solved that problem with “a detail that was quite graphic and quite ornate:” [...]

“She wanted big hair, big hair,” Orlando Pita said yesterday, recounting Carolina Herrera’s specific directive about the beauty look for her Fall show. Like a good collaborator, Pita obliged her, giving her the biggest hair we’ve seen this week. To build the foundation inside the style as well as maintain the voluminous shape, Pita [...]

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 [...]