Man Snob
There are makeup artists–and there is François Nars. Without a doubt one of the industry’s most private (by choice) and fascinating beguilers of beauty, Nars solidified his name in the eighties as the go-to guy for editorials, working with all the supermodels known simply by their first names. Fast forward to February 2009, when he [...]
Because, really, who doesn’t love a white floral musk? That’s the notion Mathilde Laurent, Cartier’s in-house perfumer, banked on when she created the French jeweler’s first major women’s scent since 2006′s Délices de Cartier. Coupled with top notes of pink pepper and juniper berry; a heart of white rose, cyclamen and lily of the valley, [...]
Peter Philips is a genius. Chanel Beauté’s artistic director, much like his fashion counterpart, Karl Lagerfeld, continues to reinvent the wheel season after season with some truly innovative product. The latest is the limited edition make-up palette, of which only 1,500 were made, dubbed “Lumières Byzantine.” Inspired by Lagerfeld’s recent Pre-Fall 2011 show–an ode to [...]
There are body scrubs and then there are luxurious body scrubs. High off the success of his first fragrance, Balenciaga Paris, Nicolas Ghesquière has launched a bevy of ancillary products designed to complement and sooth the body and soul. My favorite ? The sumptuous black body scrub. Yes, it does its job–the mineral aspect of [...]
Considering that Frédéric Malle’s Géranium pour Monsieur is one of my all-time favorite scents, I was excited to learn that the Dominique Ropion, the nose behind the scent, had created another fragrant wonder for Malle: Portrait of a Lady. The master perfumer’s newest feminine fragrance, with a name inspired by the same-named novel by Henry [...]
Lipsticks are clearly all the rage in the beauty industry and it’s easy to see why. The simple tube is immediately relatable to women of all ages, backgrounds and socioeconomic levels–and they’re, for the most part, priced within reach. How else to explain H&M selling a Lanvin lipstick as part of their designer collaboration? M.A.C, [...]
