We’ve yet to see spring’s bevy of full eye shadow looks play out on the street—or the red carpet, for that matter—but last night at the Tribeca Ball in New York, Leelee Sobieski took one of the season’s more challenging iterations out for a spin. Making like Dick Page at Narciso Rodriguez back in September, [...]

Braids have always fascinated the fashion set, turning up with regularity on the runway. This season alone, we spotted noteworthy plaits backstage at Viktor & Rolf and Lanvin. The simple style has become a favorite on the red carpet as well: Who can forget Sienna Miller’s Heidi-style coronet at the Golden Globes, or Blake Lively’s [...]

“She’s been through a lot,” hairstylist Luigi Murenu quipped of the Viktor & Rolf woman for Fall. “The rain, the dust. They’re heroines—modern Joans of Arc!” While most people would take that reference and conjure images of the French patron saint’s heavy fringe, Murenu went in a different direction completely, opting to channel his embattled [...]

Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren are showmen nonpareil. Fall 2010’s Kristen McMenamy layer-stripping extravaganza wasn’t a shock, but only because it followed earlier spectacles, including but not limited to Fall ’07’s spotlights-as-accessories performance piece, in which lights were rigged up to each model as she teetered down the catwalk, and the marvel that was the [...]

M.I.A.’s gold talons were plenty flashy, but the biggest beauty statement at the Met gala belonged to January Jones, who sported a dramatic smoky gray eye with what her makeup artist, Rachel Goodwin, described as a “futuristic edge.” Goodwin dragged the blue and gray shades from Chanel’s Quadra Eye Shadow in Bleu Celeste from Jones’ [...]

Hot on the heels of their disco-themed Flowerbomb anniversary party in Paris, Dutch designers Viktor & Rolf have something new to fête: the launch of a special, limited-edition version of the F-bomb scent. Called La Vie en Rose, it drops in Sephora stores here on April 1. A lighter riff on the original rose and [...]

Word that Charlotte Gainsbourg would front Nicolas Ghesquière’s first foray into fragrance for the house of Balenciaga spread like wildfire when it was announced over the summer, and finally we’ve got some more news to share about the highly anticipated scent that bows in February. Perfumer Olivier Polge—he of Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb and Eau [...]

When Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren took the perfume world by storm in 2005 with Flowerbomb, their first-ever fragrance endeavor, which became a huge global hit, the Dutch design duo sealed their reputation as a beauty crossover success story. Since then, fashion and fragrance aficionados alike have been waiting to see what they would come [...]

Chalk this one up to a case of when bad things happen to good people. Foxy Brown’s plan to pull off dramatic fake lashes—à la the gilded set Viktor & Rolf designed for Shu Uemura circa 2008—came unhinged at last night’s VH1 Hip Hop Honors, when her lash glue let her down. It’s a common [...]

Ever willing to stretch the limits of artistic expression, Dazed & Confused has a 3-D fashion editorial in its new August issue. Dimension-transporting glasses are included with purchase, which presumably make model Julia Hafstrom leap from the page in a series of Marios Schwab designs. However, we’re more interested in her seriously futuristic makeup, which [...]