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 [...]

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 [...]

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 went to the fitting, there was a slight Spanish influence,” hairstylist Sam McKnight said of Olivier Rousteing’s first full-scale runway collection for Balmain. “But the rock ‘n’ roll element is always there,” he added of the house’s archetypical girl, who seemed unwilling to give up her mattified locks and black-rimmed lids for Spring, [...]

Peter Philips added his two cents to the bleached vs. bushy brow debate that’s captivated the makeup artistry community for the past few seasons yesterday at Fendi, bucking both trends to introduce a totally new way of beefing up arches. “It’s a graphic metallic element,” the face painter said of the gold and silver leaf [...]

In case it wasn’t clear from the glistening black backdrop and the neon-lit replica of the Place Vendôme that set the stage for last night’s Chanel Couture presentation, a dramatic, evening-inspired theme helped guide the beauty look created by the house’s creative director of makeup, Peter Philips. “Karl mentioned the masculine/feminine silhouette, the fact that [...]

The Chanel show always offers up a well-choreographed example of how the connection between high fashion and beauty can be a seamless one. Karl Lagerfed tells his go-to face painter, Peter Philips, about his sartorial vision—the fabrics, the colors, the themes (which for Fall included a dark forest equipped with dancing shadows and breaks of [...]

Remember last month when we spotlighted Kristina Salinovic’s super-sweet fade and pointed out that we thought it might be contributing to her stellar season so far? Well, it seems as though Nicola Formichetti feels similarly. Not only did the Mugler designer have the Croatian stunner open his highly anticipated Fall women’s show—his first for the [...]

In case you somehow missed it, what with all the fun-with-fonts prints, plastic charm necklaces, and sneakers with wedge heels (on the runway!), the theme at D&G for Fall was “street couture,” according to Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce’s reigning makeup mistress, Pat McGrath. A requisite “graphic” eye followed suit, which McGrath drew onto models’ [...]

It was one of the most heralded Spring shows—who doesn’t love a crisp white t-shirt as eveningwear?—so it’s no surprise that pieces from Raf Simons’ Jil Sander collection are starting to wow on the red carpet. At the 2010 Hollywood Style Awards in L.A. last night, Kate Bosworth borrowed look no. 1 from the catwalk, [...]