If it wasn’t clear from the sunflower-print opening looks that Laura and Kate Mulleavy sent out onto the runway, Vincent van Gogh and his most famous works partially inspired their Spring Rodarte collection and its complementary beauty look. “It’s Starry Night,” makeup artist James Kaliardos said backstage, referencing the Dutch post-impressionist master’s oil-on-canvas depiction of [...]

We’re still on a two-and-a-half-week countdown until the Spring shows get under way here in New York, but the invites have already started flooding in, bringing word of exciting things to come. Our first surprise came last week when we learned that NARS, not MAC, will be sponsoring the makeup look at Rodarte, breaking a [...]

Barrettes got a boost last season at shows like Cynthia Rowley, Carolina Herrera, Prabal Gurung, and Badgley Mischka, but Kirsten Dunst has always been a proponent of the schoolgirl accessory, frequently pairing it with a flattering side-sweep. The Melancholia actress stayed true to her signature style in Cannes this morning, pairing a gilded floral-cluster clip [...]

“Balenciaga blond”—that perfectly platinum shade of bright flaxen that dominated at the Spring shows—seems to have fallen out of favor with the catwalking set. While Abbey Lee Kershaw is staying true to her Orlando Pita peroxide dye job, her icy-haired counterparts are switching it up. After Natasha Poly hinted at the chestnut change that [...]

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 [...]

Karlie Kloss is probably best known for those brow-tastic Marc Jacobs campaigns and her impressive stature. At 5′ 11″, the Midwesterner towers over many of her cohorts, kicking her long legs out in front of her body for one of the most mind-boggling walks in the biz. Believe it or not, Kloss is also one [...]

Certain runway beauty looks are better left on the catwalk—take, for example, the amphibious facial prosthetics Peter Philips employed at Alexander McQueen’s Spring 2010 show; great for a photo op, less so for the office. There are other movements hatched backstage, however, that we hope and pray to see more of. As we noted in [...]

We just gave you an insider’s peek at Natalie Portman’s beauty look from the New York premiere of Black Swan last night. But those of you who have plans to see the film when it opens on Friday will experience a completely different kind of face painting on screen. “Intense, alluring, and sexy with a [...]

For those of you wondering how the zebra-print shirt in the last look at Louis Vuitton could be so skin-tight on Kristen McMenamy that nary a fabric ripple could be seen as she traipsed down the runway, there was good reason for that: It wasn’t a shirt at all—it was painted on. Body art has [...]

In addition to some serious staying power, there’s something else to admire about nineties model Guinevere Van Seenus: her chameleonlike ability to rock a series of different hair colors and look gorgeous every time. That’s thanks in large part to colorist Laurie Foley, who has taken the light brown-haired Van Seenus from golden (think: that [...]