James Gager

In the Chinese zodiac calendar, 2013 is the Year of the Snake--and more specifically, the year of the water snake. This Sunday is the first day of the Chinese new year, and cosmetics companies are celebrating with some new makeup collections. There's a lot of lore and astrology linked to the celebration of the Chinese new year, so we asked fashion's go-to astrologer, Susan Miller, to help us figure out what it all means, and how beauty products exactly fit into the equation. (Stay with us here. There's actually a connection!)

Last weekend Daphne Guinness--like thousands of other art lovers--hit Miami for Art Basel. While we couldn't be there with her, we had the chance to chat with her and James Gager, MAC's Senior Vice President/Group Creative Director about her new color collection. (We couldn't really imagine the somewhat goth Daphne in Miami among the palm trees but for the record: she loves the sun and always wears a lot of sunscreen.) The Daphne Guinness MAC line, which launches December 26, is full of shades on the cool end of the spectrum. We got our hands on it and can say that the eye shadow quad is a must-have and the sage/silver green nail polish and lip gloss are especially intriguing. We were dying to talk to the mistress of all things over-the-top about how she came up with the surprisingly wearable collection. Click through for her thoughts on guys wearing makeup, her own (minimal!) makeup routine, and why she doesn't think very highly of trends.

Last night we ventured into the gray and misty New York night and headed over to the Steven Kasher Gallery for the opening of photographer Miles Aldri