Before Karl Lagerfeld’s space shuttle Couture show took off yesterday in Paris, he gave Chanel’s creative director of makeup, Peter Philips, a brief with two specific directives: “blue, and make sure they don’t look like stewardesses.” Bearing Lagerfeld’s anti-Pan Am sentiment in mind, Philips kept his attention squarely on the eyes—something the famed face painter [...]

We’ve never been much into veils—despite how easy-to-pull-off fashion iconoclasts like Daphne Guinness make them look. But that all changed last summer when Chanel creative director of makeup Peter Philips pinned different pieces of black lace over dark navy smoky eyes at Karl Lagerfeld’s Fall couture show. There’s something about the way the [...]

Liv Tyler: actress, beauty spokesperson—singer? The rock progeny and Givenchy Irresistible face will reportedly lend her pipes to an original song for her next installment of fragrance ads that’s being called “an electrifying meeting between the world of rock and the universe of perfume.” [Contact Music]
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When Chanel creative director of makeup Peter Philips got the word from Karl Lagerfeld that this year’s Métiers d’Art show was to be a nod to classic Indian decadence, his mind went to one place: black kohl. “We wanted a graphic interpretation of an iconic Indian beauty ideal,” Philips said of the almond-shaped black-rimmed lids [...]

Makeup artist Peter Philips is no stranger to 3-D makeup. Before hot pink paper triangles, snipped paillettes, and pieces of rubberized plastic doubled as eyeliner on the Spring runways, Philips was fashioning lash embellishments for the pages of i-D magazine and backstage at Chanel circa Fall 2009. But you could argue that he hit his [...]

If your mind has been reeling since last week’s Chanel show in Paris with burning questions like, what did global creative director of makeup Peter Philips use to give models’ skin that otherworldly glow? And how, oh how did he get that string of Swarovski pearls to stick to Arizona Muse’s spine just so? The [...]

If the lace masks at Sarah Burton’s show for Alexander McQueen looked familiar, it’s because anyone who made it to the wildly successful exhibition celebrating the house’s late namesake designer at the Met this summer has seen something like them before. “The idea came from the masks we created for the McQueen exhibit,” confirmed Guido [...]

It was hard to know where to look backstage at Chanel yesterday. Between the makeup artists individually applying pearls onto models’ faces and the house’s global creative director of makeup, Peter Philips, creating a gorgeous glow using a mix of his Illusion d’Ombre eye shadows from Fall, it was definitely a beauty moment worth [...]

The sea, and all of its fluid, textural qualities and mystic creatures, has become a big trend for Spring, informing stand-out shows from Giorgio Armani and Givenchy already this season. But leave it to Karl Lagerfeld and his global creative director of makeup, Peter Philips, to put their own spin on the watery wonderland at [...]

When we got backstage at Kenzo yesterday, there were two pleasant surprises waiting for us. The first was Peter Philips; if Humberto Leon and Carol Lim’s  collection was half as good as their decision to enlist the Chanel creative director of makeup for their first outing for the storied brand, then they’d have a big [...]