For a 9 a.m. show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, the backstage beauty crew needs to be fresh faced and on their game before most of us have even hot the snooze button. Energy is key for an early a.m. call, and the backstage area for Ruffian was teeming with just that. We may have been …
Matte seems to the be the word on the street this season, with makeup artists looking to keep the skin pure by emphasizing natural beauty and tones. In talking backstage with makeup artist Tom Pecheux, he was inspired by the sensuality of Doo.Ri‘s AW12 collection and sought to bring that fresh innocence into the beauty. …
If you are anything like me, looking into your closet can be like looking into a sea full of grey and black. A bright suit can be the piece to bring your closet back to life. These suits come across as being professional, while still fun and trend setting. It catches your attention by itself, …
Summary: Having interned with Jill Stuart and done knitwear for Alice + Olivia, Barney’s, LaROK and Elizabeth and James, Ann Yee has plenty of experience bolstering her own line, which she began in Autumn 2009. And it shows. For Fall, Ann experiments with both visual and physical texture, draping abstractly printed tunics and skirts with …
At the onset of episode six of Project Runway All Stars, each designer picked a handbag from the arms of host, Angela Lindvall, which is sort of apt since her onscreen personality is that of a clothing rack; let’s face it she’s pretty but also pretty boring. But rather than have the designers create an …
