Art Basel Miami will soon be in full swing, and if you’ve had a chance to peruse our thorough preview of the week’s events, you’ll have noticed that there are more than a few notable beauty initiatives at this year’s fair. In addition to Dior’s Anselm Reyle-designed eye shadow palette and Johan Lindeberg’s BLK DNM [...]

After successfully pairing six fashion industry up-and-comers with six known and respected perfumers—first to benefit Designers Against AIDS in 2009 and then in support of Pro-Natura, a environmental sustainability program, in 2010—Six Scents founders Joseph Quartana and Kaya Sorhaindo are at it again with a whole new theme and charitable initiative for 2011. Their third [...]

For designer and Agyness Deyn bestie Henry Holland, making a fragrance came pretty easily. “I just filled out a questionnaire,” Holland joked last night while playing host at the launch party for Six Scents: Series II, which pairs some of the rag trade’s biggest names with perfumers to create a union of artistic expression [...]

When Six Scents: Series One made its debut last fall, Joseph Quartana, the fragrance collection’s curator, introduced the fashion and beauty set to a new kind of “creativity with a conscience.” Pairing six designers with six perfumers, he embarked on an annual endeavor to produce olfactory art for a cause, dedicating a portion of sales [...]

At last night’s launch party for the Six Scents Fragrance Initiative: Series One, a brigade of black-boots-wearing scenesters braved the line that quickly formed outside the New Museum on the Bowery. Sure, there were the six different designer-collaboration fragrances on view for looking and testing; free, pink drink specials (vodka with a mélange of different [...]

Fashion’s ties to fragrance are nothing new. It seems that every month or so news breaks of yet another designer bottling their respective brand so that devotees have yet another way to express loyalty. Less common, however, are fashion/fragrance collaborations that originate in a desire to altruistically participate in a collaborative creative endeavor to produce [...]