Beauty

Image via Fairchild Archives A quick peek at the look board for Juan Carlos Obando's presentation revealed plenty of gilded elements, with some fabulous foil prints accenting otherwise hard black ensembles. The folks at Fekkai...

"Since there's not a lot of color in Richard's spring collection, and we did a strong red lip last season, Richard wanted to focus on the eyes this time around," explains Revlon's Global Artistic Director,...

For their first runway show for their new line, The Row, the girls presented a simple, elegant collection. Backstage, the amazingly talented Aaron de Mey, Creative Director for Lancome, focused on a "clean and dewy,...

...because if you're going to wear makeup, you might as well really wear makeup, right? I loved the Avatar-blue that Tom Pecheux created (buy it from Estee Lauder this fall!)....

Fresh yet luminous--this is pretty much exactly how I want to look come this Fall, when I'm all snuggled up in my cozy knits and layers. Actually, seeing as how we are still in the...

Navigating through the jungle of hairdryers and make-up cases backstage at William Rast, I stumbled upon two stylists working diligently on a model's hair. They were gradually taking down and blowing out the bobby...

Walking around backstage at Tory Burch, I seeing soft faces with strong eyes and stronger brows. The look was definitely more concentrated on the eyes, leaving the lips mostly au naturale. It was a mesmerizing...

Herve Leger's Fall 09 collection is all about, "strong women in tight little dresses," Diane Kendall told me, and the makeup certainly reflected that power. Full brows framed neutral, monotone skin, and matte lips....

Photo: Greg Kessler Backstage at Matthew Williamson, models sported gorgeous smoky eyes that subtly glistened underneath the lights of surrounding camera crews. A different take from the usual powder approach, these eyes looked dewy,...

Gucci Westman, Revlon's Global Artistic Director, mid trends of seasons past - bright shadow and graphic liner - at Jason Wu's show on Friday. "It's note quite a perfect square," she said of the...

To complement Rachel Roy's collection, which was touted as Africa by way of Paris, legendary makeup artist Bobbi Brown updated the ubiquitous smoky eye with shades of purple: "A lot of people think of...

Just before the downpour here in NYC on Saturday, I hurried over to Karen Walker's show in Chelsea - and it was truly the calm before the storm. Typically, backstage at a fashion show...

I had a chat with the brand new Lancome spokesmodel (and all around gorgeous girl), Arlenis Sosa (pictured here with her favorite product, Tonique Confort). Here, her thoughts: "I just started modeling in April,...

I'm definitely digging the angular/graphic makeup and hairstyles this season, as demonstrated here on Behati Prinsloo backstage at Narciso Rodriguez. Stylist Eugene Souleiman started with a ponytail wrapped in elastic, then pinned the ponytail...

I always love going backstage at Marchesa because the hair and makeup - the latter of which is perfected every season by Stila and Talia Shobrook - is always very feminine and soft. Teddy...

So this is exciting - James Kaliardos from MAC told me that when we was developing this look at Rodarte, it made him think a lot about Teen Vogue readers! Maybe not so much...

Makeup got back to nature at Malandrino, where artist Tom Pecheux accentuated eyes with the image of a leaf. "The two keys words for Catherine were organic and graphic," he said. Using three shades...

Backstage at Charlotte Ronson (where a lot of these girls were walking for the first time!), pale coral and pink lips ruled. Sarah Lucero (from Stila Cosmetics) said: "Charlotte wanted the makeup to be...

One of my favorite looks for hair so far was at Twinkle - David Cruz from Redken constructed "contained chaos," as he put it, by making small curls all over the head and parting...