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As has been the case with his other flagship openings, Tom Ford has chosen his Beverly Hills flagship, which makes its debut this official public debut this weekend and will feature his first-ever dedicated womenswear floor, to launch Tom Ford Lavender Palm, a fragrance Ford feels best evokes the image of California’s “sparkling sunlight, natural [...]
File this under “Unique and Cool Projects I’d Like to See More Of.” In lieu of creating another lipstick or filming a short, Proenza Schouler designers Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough have created a limited edition tote bag filled with some of their favorite Frédéric Fekkai product–as a tribute to the master hairstylist and his [...]
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 [...]
