According to Redken creative consultant Guido Palau, Victoria Beckham is still creating her image. “Her image has been her, but she’s really moving away from that, and over the next few seasons it will become more apparent.” There’s still a ton of Victoria in everything Beckham does, though—which is to say that her special brand [...]

“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.)
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“When you have a brand with a signature feeling, you kind of just go with it,” Redken creative consultant Guido Palau said backstage at Rag & Bone, referencing designers David Neville and Marcus Wainwright’s signature style. And so, as she has in nearly every season past, the downtown cool girl reared her languid, texturized head [...]

As Redken’s creative consultant, Guido Palau is pretty much set when it comes to products. His backstage arsenal features everything from setting lotions and blow-dry gels to hair sprays and shine serums, which allow him to whip up a wealth of styles, from those sculpted faux bobs at Jil Sander to the sopping wet strands [...]

As Redken’s creative consultant, Guido Palau dreams up new products for the haircare brand and then puts them into practice backstage at the shows to gather the kind of real-time experience (and ample press) they need to succeed in the consumer market. We can appreciate how a good mousse and firm-hold hair spray transform 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 [...]

If there were a single word to describe the hair and makeup backstage at Valentino, it would be “pretty.” Pier Paolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri have made the descriptor something of a mantra since taking the reins at the house and have instructed their go-to glam squad of Pat McGrath and Guido Palau to [...]

After a last-minute change to the beauty look last season at Yves Saint Laurent, in which all traces of Pat McGrath’s original vivid purple lip were erased in favor of a glossy nude mouth, we were hesitant to vacate the backstage premises out of fear that we’d miss all the eleventh-hour action. But McGrath’s Ann [...]

As certain beauty trends continue to turn up for Spring—wet hair, bright lips, and monochrome makeup among them—there’s one seasonal muse that just won’t quit. “It’s fifties-inspired,” Guido Palau said, giving yet another nod to the mid-twentieth century backstage at Jean Paul Gaultier with “dressed” hair that was prepped with Redken 10 Guts Volume Spray [...]

Brown, rather than black, smoky eyes continue to get a lot of traction this week in Paris—one of the many beauty holdover trends we’ve spotted from Fall. “I’m feeling really pared-down makeup for Spring,” Pat McGrath confirmed of the increased appearance of “raw, nude-y” lids layered with creamy chestnut pigment backstage at Lanvin—which was exactly [...]