When we chatted with François Nars last spring after his heralded return to the world of backstage beauty, he was just as excited to talk to us about cameras as concealers. The face painter, who moonlights as a shutterbug, has published two different photography books and will be debuting his third effort next month. “It’s [...]

London is usually all about goth and edge, but Graeme Black, the great Scotsman who was once head of Ferragamo, is a bit of an outlier. As noted by this site’s fashion reporters, he “doesn’t really do ‘relaxed.” Lucky for us, however, hairstylist Sam McNight does. Playing off Black’s unrelentingly elegant and refined sentiment, McKnight—who [...]

First Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer, and Eva Herzigova graced the cover of Vogue Korea’s August issue. Now Ms. Herzigova has taken solo control of Numéro Tokyo’s September book. The creative direction for the spread, shot by Alex Cayley, is strikingly similar to something we’ve seen before. A sheer pink lip; clean, perfect skin; that piercing, [...]

The new D&G Fragrance Anthology is already causing quite a stir in the blogosphere, even though it’s not set to launch globally until September. Inspired by tarot cards, each of the five new scents has been designed with a unique identity and bears a distinct name and number. Not unlike CK One, Le Bateleur 1, [...]

Recent blogosphere buzz has models shaking in their over-the-knee boots: Japanese engineers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology unveiled the HRP-4C humanoid robot this week in Tokyo, a robotic model that made her runway debut at the start of Japan fashion week on Monday. The five-foot, two-inch fembot weighs in at [...]

…Her extensions, that is. “She has the most expensive extensions in the world,” hairstylist Luigi Murenu reports of Naomi Campbell’s “enhanced” coif, which was apparently ready for its close-up long before the supermodel even sat down in the stylist’s chair on the set of Yves Saint Laurent’s fall ad campaign. “She showed up with some [...]