Being the new face of YSL’s Opium may be Emily Blunt’s beauty world debut, but it certainly isn’t the first time she’s been asked to front a product. Why hold out? “None were as classy as [YSL],” the actress says of the other offers. Smart girl. [Telegraph]
Pop star, fragrance mogul, and ghd spokeswoman Katy [...]

Stella McCartney has an early Christmas present for die-hard fans of her signature scents. The designer has announced that she’s been hard at work on a second fragrance called L.I.L.Y, which references its lily of the valley heart and the pet name acronym Paul McCartney made up for Stella’s mom, Linda: “Linda I Love You.” [...]

We’re big supporters of the full-blown, in-your-face, super-strong statement lip. Why wear a lipstick if it isn’t high-impact, we’ve always thought? Every once in a while, though, a sheer bullet comes along that makes us soften our hard line on intensity. The latest contender is YSL’s new Rouge Pur Couture Golden Lustre. It is to [...]

It’s hard to think of a more esteemed distinction than “designer muse.” Inspiring a collection or a runway beauty look is something few style stars can lay claim to, but it’s just one of the many impressive achievements Ann Bonfoey Taylor has to her credit. You name it, and she did it—from playing at Wimbledon [...]

Of his many, many contributions to the annals of fashion history, one of Yves Saint Laurent’s single biggest gifts to womenswear has to be Le Smoking. A tuxedo cut for the feminine figure without sacrificing the toughness of the masculine original, it was an achievement in liberation, effectively giving women the official go-ahead to wear [...]

After a last-minute change to the beauty look last season at Yves Saint Laurent, in which all traces of Pat McGrath’s original vivid purple lip were erased in favor of a glossy nude mouth, we were hesitant to vacate the backstage premises out of fear that we’d miss all the eleventh-hour action. But McGrath’s Ann [...]

Everyone may be buzzing about Paris Vogue’s September cover girl, Charlotte Casiraghi, but we’re caught up with an entirely different editorial from the French glossy’s big fashion issue. In an exciting turn of events, editor Emmanuelle Alt enlisted not one but three of the business’ biggest face painters to present their own interpretation of French [...]

Strange as it may sound, Natalia Kills has Perez Hilton to thank for her burgeoning fame. “I wrote a song for myself and put it on my MySpace page and he blogged about me and suddenly I had two million plays and was No. 1 on the MySpace unsigned artist chart,” the half-Jamaican, half-Uruguayan London-bred [...]

Redken creative consultant Guido Palau has a lock on the backstage beauty game. The coiffing star covers more ground than almost any of his peers come fashion month, which means we see him on a daily basis (often more than once). It also means that he’s in large part responsible for the season’s biggest hair [...]

Since accepting lipstick into our lives back in 2008, we’ve all but given up gloss. A “glossy balm,” however, is a different story. YSL’s new Volupté Sheer Candy brands itself as such, packing the shine of a gloss and the emollient moisture of a balm into one new edition of the brand’s highly stylized Rouge [...]