The “biggest show on earth” took place yesterday, with a live performance from Fergie to boot. But before all of the winged action on the Victoria’s Secret runway began, we made our way past the weapon-sniffing dogs and waded through piles of rogue hair extensions backstage to chat up makeup artist Tom Pecheux, who was [...]

Tom Pecheux has always been one of our favorite makeup artists. There’s his soft-spoken French accent and his perfectly calm, collected, and kind demeanor during the craziness that is fashion week, but what really gets us is his expert ability to paint faces in a natural and beautiful way. There’s also something cool about the [...]

Spending a concentrated amount of time pulling backstage duty each season, we have noticed a few secret weapons in makeup artists’ kits. Cosmetics, after all, can only go so far on their own. Tubs of Vaseline and tins of Smith’s Rosebud Salve make frequent appearances from New York to Paris, since, when combined with an [...]

“It’s a very ethnic collection,” makeup artist Tom Pecheux said about Catherine Malandrino’s Spring presentation yesterday, and he wasn’t kidding. As our fashion reporters noted, Malandrino chose four distinct regions from which to draw inspiration, and corresponding beauty schemes were designed for each. Pecheux had it easy, though. He was charged with one globe-spanning look, [...]

There was something reminiscent of Marc Jacobs’ Fall presentation backstage at the Jean Paul Gaultier Couture show yesterday, insofar as rather than having one uniform theme, Odile Gilbert and Tom Pecheux were charged with re-creating a series of iconic Hollywood heroines through hair and makeup, respectively. This meant about 20-plus completely unique beauty schemes to [...]

For those of you with beauty-centric memories, images from yesterday’s Malandrino show may have called to mind those from last season at McQueen, where netted face masks also accessorized the hair and makeup scheme. But whereas Art Deco inspired Peter Philips and Paul Hammond in Paris, it was 1930’s Surrealism that did it for hairstylist [...]

In addition to getting an opportunity to watch some of the best makeup artists in the world play with a selection of as-yet-unreleased cosmetics this week, we got word of a few new launches that we think you might find very interesting. MAC Cosmetics has big plans for black; it will release a still unnamed [...]

Not to state the obvious, but gray is here to stay for Fall 2009. We witnessed yet another
incarnation of the pallid lip color yesterday at Doo.Ri, where makeup artist Tom Pecheux used a very light application of MAC’s Lipmix in black to keep things from veering too far over to the dark side. He also [...]

During the Spring show season, designers often pass down a “warm” mandate to the makeup artist in charge backstage. This is why, aside from a few rogue dissenters, you frequently see a bevy of rosy cheeks walking down the runway come September. Spring 2009 was no exception to this general rule, although in a particularly [...]