The first fall-inspired fashion glossies are beginning to hit newsstands, which means some of our favorite backstage beauty trends are now showing up in print. Topping this list are bold red lips and boy-meets-girl androgyny, both of which have been captured in the August issue of Vogue China with near perfection. In a story aptly [...]

Tao Okamoto has been a little experimental in the hair department of late. Her signature black bowl cut was transformed into blond beach waves for an editorial spread a few months back, and for the latest issue of Vogue Nippon, she’s gone red. The ginger hue is a popular one these days; with Karen Elson’s [...]

Tao Okamoto has gone blonde! Well, sort of. For the April issue of Vogue China, the Japanese beauty ditched her signature jet-black bowl cut and thick fringe for long, soft, bleached-out extensions—with a middle part to boot. Perhaps not shockingly, the drastically different look suits her (we imagine she’d be able to take a Bic [...]

Still experiencing a tinge of secondhand excitement from the plethora of phenomenal beauty moments going on in the new Tao Okamoto issue of Vogue Nippon, we took a moment to look back at the Muse magazine #19 solo tribute to Natasha Poly. It was purchased last month when we were slightly too preoccupied with the [...]

Tao Okamoto has officially reached It model status. Forget the fact that the catwalker has been Phillip Lim’s arm candy for the past few seasons or that he had every girl who walked in his Fall 2009 show wear cropped wigs in homage to Okamoto’s signature coif. No, her “I’ve made it” moment came this [...]

When I chatted with NARS Cosmetics makeup artist Ayako backstage at 3.1 Phillip Lim last season, she was enthusiastically applying coat after coat of mascara to the army of Tao Okamoto doppelgängers that passed through her station. Why all the enthusiasm, you ask? Ayako wasn’t using just any mascara to get the lash intensity Lim [...]

If you experienced a bit of déjà vu every time a new model emerged at Phillip Lim yesterday, the sensation was intentional. Inspired by model Tao Okamoto’s personal style, Lim had the newcomer open his show and insisted that hairstylist Odile Gilbert mimic her cropped bob backstage with a series of uniformly cut, multicolored wigs. [...]