In keeping with a ballet theme (one with the obligatory Black Swan inflection), Jean Paul Gaultier mandated a beauty look at his Couture show fit for stars of the stage—and for good reason. Ultra-French chanteuses Zizi Jeanmaire and Mylène Farmer were among the many models and muses Gaultier called up for runway duty this morning. [...]

While readers of this blog are well aware that, in our opinion, the feather hair-extension craze needs to come to a swift and decisive end, hairstylist Odile Gilbert made us believe in the magic of feathers again at Alexis Mabille’s Couture show yesterday—if only for a few glorious moments. Using copious amounts of L’Oréal Elnett [...]

Moschino’s Fall runway may have had all the quirky twists you’d expect to see from the Italian fashion house (Coco Rocha sported a chicken hat, after all) but behind the scenes there was a well thought-out tribute to retro glamour, with nods to “high society, Mr. [Irving] Penn, and fifties makeup,” famed face painter Tom [...]

Phillip Lim’s Fall collection was inspired by that rare breed of stylish New Yorker who straps on her most impractical shoe and puts stiletto to bike pedal—and hairstylist Odile Gilbert was not about to divert from the plan. Sculpting what she referred to as “shogun bumps,” her Asian-influenced half-up/half-downs were both chic and bike-helmet-friendly (note [...]

Rodarte’s Kate and Laura Mulleavy have a thing for blondes. Their California gold rush collection for Spring necessitated a gaggle of tawny-haired catwalkers, and so, too, did their Days of Heaven-derived Fall offering. “She’s a girl from the country,” hairstylist Odile Gilbert said of the matte-textured manes she was coating with Aveda Air Control hair [...]

There was so much going on backstage at Thakoon, it’s hard to know where to begin. That’s what happens when you combine influences as far-flung as Marie Antoinette and the Masai. But we appreciated the overstimulation in a season that has, thus far, featured fairly tame hair and makeup. “It’s like knitting,” coiffing star Odile [...]

The super-high, teased-out pompadour is a favorite with hair stylists looking to create androgynous glamour. It can also be hyper-feminized, as evidenced by its two early cameos this week—first at Ruffian, where Bumble and Bumble’s Neil Moodie was doing socialite-style “morning-after” hair, and then last night at Suno, where Odile Gilbert was channeling Avedon muse, [...]

Makeup artist Tom Pecheux told us that metallics would be huge for Fall when we ran into him this morning, and they’ve already made two appearances today. The first was courtesy of Pecheux himself on cheeks and lips at Peter Som; the second came a few short hours later in the models’ hair at Jason [...]

To render Jean Paul Gaultier’s Couture beauty look properly “punk,” as was the call from the designer today (a similar dictate to his Joan Jett-inspired RTW show in October, for those of you counting), face painter extraordinaire Tom Pecheux let the hair do most of the talking. Pecheux stuck to classic Parisian makeup codes updated [...]

The men’s shows are over and Couture has officially begun—never a dull moment on the fashion calendar! We’d like to draw your attention to a particularly lovely hair moment that happened this morning backstage at Alexis Mabille. There, just as she did at Hermès in October, hairstylist Odile Gilbert constructed a gorgeous long, flowing braid, [...]