Louis Vuitton and the Bold Eyeshadow You’ll Want to Recreate for Party Season
A parade of references swept the runway this morning at Louis Vuitton’s Place Vendôme Spring 2017 show—to the ’80s, to punks, to grunge, by turns. In terms of beauty, that translated to voluminous...
View ArticleThe 6 Beauty Lessons to Take From Paris Fashion Week
As the curtain falls on Paris Fashion Week today, heralding the end of the Spring 2017 shows, what better time to parse through the vast collection of directional hair and makeup moments seen in the...
View ArticleFashion Week Fatigued? Taylor Hill, Stella Maxwell, and More Models Reveal...
Today, a flock of rather weary models will take over Charles de Gaulle airport, homeward-bound after four grueling weeks of back-to-back fittings and shows—yet somehow appearing no worse for the wear....
View ArticleThe Secret to Olivier Rousteing’s Rock-Solid Body? A Next-Level Gym Routine
Everyone knows that Olivier Rousteing is perennially on point—those sculpted cheekbones, sharp enough to cut glass; the ever-present sheen of seemingly airbrushed skin. Yet often forgotten in the...
View ArticleBella Hadid Knows the Japanese Secret to Staying Healthy All Winter
How to avoid the impending flu season in style? Take a cue from Bella Hadid, who arrived in Tokyo a few days ago and immediately fell hard for the city’s offbeat beauty culture—specifically, the...
View ArticleBeyoncé vs. Mary-Kate Olsen: Who Does Twin Braids Better?
Expand Photo: Courtesy of Beyoncé / @beyonce; Startraks Photo A pair of schoolgirl plaits is utterly timeless, worn by nearly every woman at one point or another. Yet despite its built-in simplicity,...
View ArticleThe 7 Best Beauty Lessons We Learned From Fashion Week
Is fashion having fun again? Poring over the directional runways from the Spring 2017 season, a sense of unbridled optimism certainly seemed to permeate all four cities, taking the form of outsize...
View ArticleMeet the J-Pop Band With the Best Hair in Music
Expand In a downtown Manhattan studio, three impossibly petite women stand at attention, their hands shifting in a series of minute gestures as their high-gloss hair sways smoothly. The scene is an...
View ArticleThe Life Changing Magic of Korean-French BB Cream
As far as beauty products go, both Korean skin care and French-girl makeup have a way of sparking fanatic desire among those in the know. Small wonder, then, that the best BB cream I’ve yet laid my...
View Article6 Rules to Royally Perfect Hair, According to Kate Middleton
Kate Middleton has come into her own—officially, in fact, as the Duchess of Cambridge embarked on her first international solo tour to the Netherlands today. Dressed in a trim powder-blue suit and...
View ArticleWhy Redheads Are Having a Moment—And How to Get the Look
Red hair is having a full-fledged fashion moment: the wave of Instagram girls who’ve gone Fifth Element, the six Louis Vuitton models whose scene-stealing lengths struck on the runway like tongues of...
View ArticleSelena Gomez’s Hiatus and the Importance of Self-Care: 5 Easy Ways to Take...
Expand Photo: Courtesy of Selena Gomez / @selenagomez At the tail end of a banner summer, Selena Gomez announced she was taking time off for herself, causing a social media stir. “I want to be...
View Article7 Times Emma Stone Was the Ultimate Hair Chameleon
Emma Stone first stole into the spotlight with her exuberant smile and signature shock of shimmering auburn hair. Yet it turns out that the La La Land actress and November Vogue cover star is a bit of...
View ArticleThe Life-Changing Magic of Learning to Embrace Hair Breakage
No amount of hearsay can prepare you for the horrors of breakage—the first time you run your fingers through your hair and hear that telltale snap. Frequent fraying comes hand in hand with extreme...
View ArticleVetements and MatchesFashion.com Stage a Garage Sale in Seoul
These days, the mere whisper of Vetements is enough to spark a frenzy among fashion fanatics—perhaps more so in Seoul than anywhere else, where the logo hoodies and patch-worked jeans so perfectly...
View ArticleMeet the Tangerine-Haired Model and Singer Who’s Taking On Asian Beauty...
Rina Sawayama is a complete showstopper—that waist-grazing Tang-colored hair, those intergalactic star and orb tattoos dotting her arms, the barely there bleached brows. “I like the alien look,” she...
View ArticleInside Vetements’s Epic Garage Sale in Seoul
“Raincoat, raincoat!” were the frantic cries at the Vetements MatchesFashion.com garage sale in Seoul today, where streetwear fanatics cleaned out five racks of the brand’s black raincoats in exactly...
View ArticlePat McGrath’s New Line of Next-Level Metallics Is Here!
Expand Courtesy of Pat McGrath Labs A mysterious silver gleam became the makeup statement of the Spring 2017 season, spotted winking from the corners of Gigi Hadid’s eyes at Versace and slathered...
View ArticleWhy Every Woman Should Go to the Dermatologist Before She’s 25
Many younger women mentally mark dermatologist visits as being for emergencies only—a monstrous zit, a misshapen mole. Yet the evolving state of our skin demands more of a maintenance mind-set. In...
View ArticleMeet Yoon Young Bae, Prada Girl and Korean Model of the Moment
One year ago in Seoul, amid the mad whirl of Fashion Week shows and street style swarm, a single face managed to stick in the mind—that of model Yoon Young Bae, whose incredible doll-like features...
View ArticleKorean Model Hoyeon Jung’s Skin Care and Makeup Secrets
The moment she hit the sidewalk outside the Mercer Hotel last week, Hoyeon Jung set off a pedestrian traffic jam, necks craning as they caught a glimpse of her shimmering red hair. It’s a statement...
View ArticleDamaged Hair, Don’t Care: This 2-in-1 Repairing Treatment Is a Complete...
Maintaining a head of bleached hair is a Herculean task, demanding ice-cold rinses and infrequent shampoos—an unforgiving regimen I’ve sadly stuck to since going pink last winter. Even so, my heavily...
View ArticleThis Cult Fashion Collective Is Korea’s Answer to Vetements
Expand Photo: Courtesy of Ader / @ader_error Tucked away on an unmarked block of Itaewon on a winding back alley up a rather steep hill is a no-frills showroom with a line of Swedish and Japanese...
View ArticleSofía Sanchez de Betak Tries Tokyo’s Cutest Makeover
The Lolita remains the ne plus ultra of Japanese subcultural style, recognized the world over for its whimsical reworking of English period fashion—panniered tutus and a twee, doll-like approach to...
View ArticleThe Handmaiden Is an Exquisite Period Portrait of Korean Beauty
Director Park Chan-wook is best known for Oldboy, the cult revenge film that helped catapult Korean cinema into the international spotlight, and Snowpiercer, his post-apocalyptic train caper, both...
View ArticleBajowoo Is the Breakout Designer Korea Has Been Looking For
One balmy night in August, tucked in the back of a retro deli in Sinsa-dong, Bajowoo was wracking his brain for a place to smoke—more specifically, where to present his next collection, despite the...
View ArticleSpot On! Why Asian Models Are Embracing Their Freckles
Poreless, porcelain skin has been the ruling beauty standard for decades in East Asia—as the proliferation of whitening products crammed onto shelves and lasers used to zap off moles will attest. What...
View ArticleWatch Model Grace Hartzel Transform Into David Bowie for Halloween
“We’re going to use all of these!” That’s Grace Hartzel, the famously freewheeling model who ruled the Spring 2017 runways, holding a pack of blue spangled stickers to dot across her ears. Hartzel...
View ArticleSeoul Fashion Week Grows Up: The Best Moments From Spring 2017
Expand From left: The-sirius, 99%IS, Blindness Photo: Seoul Fashion Week; 99%IS; Indigital.tv Seoul Fashion Week is searching for its identity—for designers with a uniquely Korean voice and point of...
View ArticleWhy Street Style Photographers Are Launching Their Own Brands in Seoul
Expand Kichwork Photographed by Alex Finch A sea of Vetements and Supreme blankets the area outside Seoul Fashion Week each season, as kids turn up in droves wearing the brands’ distinct statement...
View ArticleHow Bella Hadid Got Ready for Dior’s Big Night Out
A fashionable crowd filled New York’s Milk Studios last night to celebrate makeup artist Peter Philips and Dior: The Art of Color, a new photographic tome from Dior Makeup. Yet the actual belle of the...
View ArticleInside the Tattoo Phenomenon Sweeping Seoul
Tattoos are illegal in Seoul. Rather, a pesky law technically forbids anyone without a medical license from wielding the needles required to craft them. Among polite Korean society, a shock of ink has...
View ArticleHow 6 First-Time Victoria’s Secret Models Are Training for the Show
A flood of congratulatory videos and selfies took over social media today as a fresh crop of models discovered they would be walking the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show for the first time. Yet a quick...
View ArticleMeet the Mall Rats of Seoul
In America, malls are dead. In Seoul, they are thriving. From the fluorescent underground halls of COEX to the new lakeside Starfield Hanam “shopping theme park” just outside the city, these sprawling...
View ArticleWhy Body Soufflé Is the Secret to Transitional Skin Care
It’s that tricky time between fall and winter, when your skin has sadly begun to peel and flake, but the weather does not yet call for an ultra-rich cream. Consider the body soufflé a smart skin-care...
View ArticleWhy Vetements’s Guram Gvasalia Went to Seoul Fashion Week—Plus, Why He...
Without a doubt, the most notorious guests at Seoul Fashion Week this season were members of the Vetements crew, the Paris-based collective whose influence ripples throughout the local industry....
View Article5 Korean Models Reveal the Best Sheet Masks for Perfect, Poreless Skin
The Korean models who rule Seoul Fashion Week share one singular trait—a perfect, poreless complexion, looked after with religious devotion and a full lineup of next-level K-beauty products. Though...
View ArticleSuki Waterhouse Reveals the Secret to It Brit Morning Makeup
“What do we have here today?” Suki Waterhouse wonders aloud, peering into the gilded mirror at the Plaza Hotel. The It Brit model and actress is here in New York City, bright and early, to reveal...
View ArticleKorean Model Hyun Ji Shin Shares the Secrets to Her Flawless Skin
There are many reasons why Hyun Ji Shin is a rising runway star—her happy-go-lucky nature, on display while posing gamely backstage at Chanel; that perfect doll-like face, peeking out from beneath a...
View ArticleMoving Images Are the Future of Street Style in Seoul
Expand Photographed by Alex Finch There is a global fixation on Seoul street style that many find hard to understand. Locals disdain it—too much black, too much Vetements, too much distraction from...
View ArticleAttack of the Clones! Behind Heidi Klum’s Halloween Squad Transformation
Heidi Klum is the reigning queen of Halloween, and of the extreme beauty transformation in particular. Last year, she emerged as a hyperrealistic Jessica Rabbit, effectively raising the bar for the...
View ArticleKendall Jenner Turns 21! The Supermodel’s Best Beauty Transformations in Vogue
It’s hard to believe that Kendall Jenner turns only 21 today. In less than three years, the second-youngest member of the Kardashian-Jenner clan has risen to the top of the modeling world, booking...
View ArticleCara Delevingne Isn’t Bloated—She’s Just Fed Up With Body Shaming
This week, a provocative bit of tabloid gossip engulfed the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show—that casting directors had struck Cara Delevingne from the roster in 2014 because she looked “bloated.” Mere...
View ArticleIs This How Taylor Swift Does Date Night With Drake?
Are Taylor Swift and Drake dating—or are they simply collaborating on their next chart-topping hit? After news surfaced last week that Swift had been spotted at Drake’s 30th birthday party, the...
View Article9 Cannabis Beauty Products to Bring to Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg’s...
Tonight, Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg will join forces to launch a beautiful new venture: Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party, a VH1 series that will combine cooking and freewheeling...
View ArticleKate Hudson, Jessica Alba, and More Fresh-Faced I Voted Selfies
Instagram has been overrun by one specific breed of selfie today—the celebratory “I Voted” sticker snap, posted to commemorate the presidential election. Of course, countless celebrities got in on the...
View ArticleHow Ashley Graham Does Her Own Red Carpet Makeup
“I love makeup,” Ashley Graham whispers into the camera. The top model and social media powerhouse is here, at the Four Seasons hotel in downtown Manhattan, to reveal her secrets to easy red carpet...
View Article3 Revitalizing Roots Recipes From Moon Juice’s Amanda Chantal Bacon
“Beauty is not a regimen, but a state of grace,” says Amanda Chantal Bacon. “We are beautiful when we are healthy, happy, loving.” As founder of Moon Juice, the chef and wellness guru has built her...
View Article6 Times Michelle Obama’s Flawless Arms Stole the Show
There are many things we will miss about First Lady Michelle Obama—her tireless activism, her perennial poise. Yet the December Vogue cover star’s most immediately scene-stealing feature may in fact...
View ArticleKim Kardashian and North West’s Twinning Halloween Beauty Reveal
How did Kim Kardashian West and her family handle Halloween? The secret was revealed on Friday when Rob Kardashian hopped onto his sister’s website to share a few snaps of Kim and North twinning as...
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