Yesterday was pretty exciting, fashion-wise: Alexander Wang, Prabal Gurung, and Altuzarra all showed collections, and we were lucky enough to be backstage with the beauty teams, too.
Click through to check out the cognac ponytails at Wang, a super dramatic eye at Monique Lhuillier, the coolest teenagers ever at Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony and tons more.
We’re spending the week skulking around backstage at some of the hottest (and coolest) shows at New York fashion week to bring you the best beauty looks, new products, and gossipy tidbits that we pick up in our travels.
So click through to check out the beauty backstage at Jason Wu, Rag and Bone, Rebecca Minkoff and tons more.
Have you ever gotten up in the morning, looked at yourself in the mirror, and thought to yourself, “Man, I would be a helluvah lot cooler if I had some tiny baby farm animals–or maybe some miniature cupcakes–protruding from my eyelids”? Of course you have. We’ve all been there. And now finally there’s a solution: Eyelash jewelry, by way of Etsy seller Natalie Russo.
We caught up with Russo to chat about why she started making eyelash jewelry, where she wears them (on the street, or even in a hot tub!), and why she thinks eyelash jewelry could be the new nail art.
Find out how much coin women are spending on nail polish, plus what new nail products to expect in stores this spring.
Rainbow brights to the rescue! We’ll show you how to improve your mood–and your wardrobe–on what’s being hailed as the “most depressing day of the year.”
The traveling menswear circus kicked off last week in London for the city’s inaugural men’s fashion week, moved to Florence for prestigious menswear tradeshow Pitti Uomo, then on to Milan, and is currently wrapping up in Paris. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from covering Pitti Uomo and perusing Tommy Ton’s street style shots for GQ during the men’s shows, it’s that the boys love to preen and peacock outside the show venues just as much as the girls.
But what we like about taking in men’s street style is that there seems to be more of an emphasis on styling rather than the “it-items” we see proudly paraded around during the womenswear shows. It’s a cuff rolled just-so with crazy colored socks showing underneath. Or a double-breasted blazer tailored to perfection with gloves hanging out of the breast pocket. Or sneakers and a Supreme hat worn with a more tailored look. More often than not, we get styling tips for ourselves.
I know it’s already January and I should be obsessing about the new spring nail polish colors which are starting to come out, but I’m still stuck back in last summer.
This Essie polish–”No Place Like Chrome”–is from the summer 2012 Mirror Metallic collection, and I still love it. To the point that I used up my entire sample bottle and bought another one.
After resisting the trend for a long time, Essie has now officially and unequivocally thrown its hat into the nail art ring. Introducing: Essie “Sleek Stick” nail wraps.
Ever since we heard the news that Jason Wu was designing a contemporary line, Miss Wu, we’ve been counting down the days until the collection hits stores.
While we still have to wait until January to get our hands on the New Wave-inspired goodies, Wu is giving us an exclusive first look at what’s to come. The designer worked with director Todd Cole to create a mini-film, starring Miss Wu face Meghan Collison–and we have the exclusive teaser clip below.
We also managed to snag a few minutes with the crazy-busy Wu (who also happens to have the flu :( ) to chat about what inspired him when creating the video, where he hopes the collection will go next and why he’s not the serious guy everyone seems to think he is. Read on.
Last November we were introduced to the now 26-year-old Rabbi Yael Buechler, who made headlines for her (yeah, we’ll make this joke again) unorthodox way of teaching the Torah to her students. In a program called “Midrash Manicures,” she has her students come up with nail art to illustrate their understanding of certain stories and teachings. It’s been a runaway success at the Jewish day school where she teaches in suburban New York, and she’s since expanded: She is now selling Hanukkah-themed nail art decals for those of us who may find drawing a menorah on our pinkie a bit challenging.
Hitchcock, the Oscar-vehicle starring Anthony Hopkins as Hitch and Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh, hit select theaters this past weekend. There hasn’t been much fashion buzz about the film aside from Scarlett Johansson’s Psycho-themed V cover, which focused more on her scream than her clothes (as well it should have), but we’ve always had a soft-spot for the fashion in Hitchcock’s films.
While Essie is historically very shy of gimmicky, trendy nail products (a rep once told me at a beauty convention that Essie tries really hard to keep it classy and classic–they even resisted glitter polishes until last year), come December you can snag the brand’s very first magnetic polish collection.
