Remember last summer when Tyra Banks was threatening to create a Web site to “provide [her] audience with inspirational and instructional content to help them look and feel their best”? Well, she wasn’t bluffing. TypeF launched today, with a whole “Beauty School” section replete with quizzes to help you find the right red lipstick, apply [...]

America’s Next Top Model—the reality competition series produced by Tyra Banks—is pulling out the big guns this season, with a panel of judges that includes fashion editor André Leon Talley and guest spots by designers like Diane von Furstenberg, Patricia Field, and Zac Posen. Last night, supermodel Karolina Kurkova stopped by the model mansion to [...]

More news on the Evan Rachel Wood-for-Gucci front. Not only will the actress front the print campaign for the Italian brand’s forthcoming women’s fragrance, Guilty, but she’s also starring in a film directed by Sin City’s Frank Miller to promote the new scent. Miller’s first film/fashion crossover effort details a sexy love tryst set against [...]

Tyra Banks is fulfilling her promise to “help us all feel as fierce as we truly are” by launching a different kind of ANTM-type contest, which will focus on teenage plus-sized models. The competition will aptly be called the “Fiercely Real Teen Model Search.” Fierce. [NY Daily News]
A new survey shows that Japanese male college [...]

Yves Rocher, a pioneer of plant-based cosmetics and the founder of the eponymous natural beauty company, died of a stroke on Saturday. The green beauty movement will always be in his debt. [WWD]
New developments in the “Because he’s worth it” trial. Liliane Bettencourt, the 87-year-old L’Oréal heiress, is refusing to undergo psychological evaluations to [...]

An attempt to smuggle 20,000 bottles of counterfeit Coco Chanel perfume worth about $1.6 million into England has been foiled. The bottles, which were headed for stores in time for the Christmas rush, were en route from China when they were seized by U.K. Border Agency officials. There’s nothing like a designer imitation to ruin [...]

Photographer Susan Anderson’s new book High Glitz, which features a series of child beauty pageant portraits, has sparked a debate about whether or not making a six-year-old look like she’s 45 with an excess of makeup is in fact child abuse. Anyone? [Allure]
New Beauty magazine has homed in on way to get readers to buy [...]

First Pete Wentz, now Lady Gaga. With every purchase of the deluxe new version of her album The Fame Monster, the “Paparazzi”-singer will be giving out a lock of her hair, a personal note, and a jigsaw puzzle. Perhaps this is what she meant by a “love game”?[Hollyscoop]
Painting models in blackface for fashion purposes is [...]

With Chris Rock and Tyra Banks bringing the issue of “natural hair” to both the big and small screens, curly girls of all ages and races are grappling more than ever with the issue of whether or not to go straight. Naturallycurly.com is hoping that all women choose to embrace their textured tresses and has [...]

Former Baywatch star and current animal rights activist Pamela Anderson will launch a fragrance and bodycare line in November. The brand will reportedly be “everything that Pam Anderson is known for” and is thusly called Malibu, a reference to her place of residence and beach-beauty lifestyle. That whole hep C incident will likely not be [...]