“I remember when Peter was making clothes for teenagers,” makeup artist Tom Pecheux said backstage at Peter Som this morning, reminiscing about his long-standing relationship with the designer. “But every season, his woman is growing up,” Pecheux continued. Fall 2012 is no exception. To contrast the “grown up” feeling of Som’s clothes, [...]

Last season, we broke the news that skincare guru Sunday Riley had teamed up with makeup artist Diane Kendal on a new makeup line that debuted backstage at Maiyet and Vanessa Bruno in Paris. After a stellar performance for Spring, it’s perhaps unsurprising that we’ve got some more news to break for Fall: Style.com just [...]

When we saw Estée Lauder creative makeup director Tom Pecheux backstage at Derek Lam last season, he had California on the brain. Architect Richard Neutra’s special brand of Hollywood Hills home design informed Pecheux’s palette of structural dark lines and sun-kissed accents. But for his new Lauder color collection, the makeup guru zeroed in on [...]

To the naked eye, it was business as usual for the nearly naked bodies that graced the Victoria’s Secret runway yesterday—long legs, bejeweled bikinis, bronzed skin, and all. But backstage, there was a beauty revolution afoot. “Sometimes, after a point, you realize that ‘more’ is your worst enemy,” makeup artist Tom Pecheux said of the [...]

The “flavor of Versace” was alive and well backstage at the house’s much-anticipated collection for H&M tonight in New York, according to makeup artist Tom Pecheux. “Donatella [Versace] wanted something fun, something glam that was very rock ‘n’ roll at the same time,” he explained of the beauty look, which translated to deep aubergine nails [...]

Metallics were one of Spring’s surprise makeup trends (check out our full backstage beauty report in our debut magazine, which hits newsstands next week!). The high-shine, shimmering pigments are typically a Fall mainstay, but they turned up with frequency this season on lids at 3.1 Phillip Lim and Alexandre Herchcovitch; on hair and brows 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, [...]

The retro cat-eye has become something of a staple at the Spring shows. Lucia Pieroni went long and thick backstage at Jonathan Saunders, James Kaliardos kept it thin and pointy at Ruffian, and Pat McGrath went with proper fifties proportion, à la Sophia Loren, at Dolce & Gabbana (more on that in a bit). But [...]

Backstage at Derek Lam, makeup artist Tom Pecheux was looking west—to California specifically, with its sun-kissed hills and the outstanding homes that dot them. “We talked about Richard Neutra,” Pecheux said. “It was the beginning of that time in architecture when they let the outdoors come in with big windows. That’s what I wanted to [...]

It seems as if beauty’s tendency to go both ways for Fall is still trending for Spring, with the words “androgyny,” “handsome,” and “boyish” making more than a few cameos. At Altuzarra, hairstylist Paul Hanlon put a name on the increasingly popular look: “It’s like nineties David Sims,” he said of the general vibe that’s [...]