Ah, New York. The concrete jungle where dreams are made of, apparently, but eleven shows in and are things looking dreamy backstage? Read on to find out what our beauty and style editor, Cassie Steer, has garnered so far.
The hotly-anticipated beauty range from the make-up artist to the stars is about to hit the shelves. Elbows at the ready, girls…
Let’s face it, there aren’t many places outside of pre-school that you can get away with wearing welly boots, teeny tiny shorts, face paint and a chicken on your head. Luckily we have festivals to make all that socially acceptable. That in mind, here’s our VIP pass to the looks we wish we could rock every day thanks to a little inspiration from the SS13 shows.
That elusive glowing orb in the sky is looking set to stay, so here are the products to help you keep your cool.
Make mani mistakes the stuff of beauty past with a little help from Adam Slee, talon-ted manicurist to the stars, official Rimmel spokesperson and all-round nail guru (cue rapturous applause).
We were invited backstage at the Stella McCartney Resort show in New York to learn all about the designer's eco credentials, all with a little thanks to Aveda.
To create a masterpiece you need the right tools, so ditch those iddy-biddy applicators that come free with eyeshadow palettes and compacts and swot up on the make-up tools every girl should own.
If there’s one thing us beauty journos excel in, it’s crisis management. Work woes? I can proffer the perfect MAC lipstick for it. Having a down day? It’s amazing what an uplifting fragrance (or let’s face it, any fragrance) can do. But when a friend (who shall remain nameless) was going through a particularly rough break-up, I knew that a beauty bag just wasn’t going to cut it - this was a case for some serious spa intervention
The good news is that SS13’s hair forecast is looking decidedly low-key compared to some of the overly-elaborate coifs of season’s past
Forget the 'Boy Brick Bag', this season’s must-have fashion accessory is at the end of your fingertips
For us beauty journos, delirium may have set in circa Day three of Milan but if we were feeling a tad 'out to lunch', the hair and make-up teams were positively unhinged judging by today's bonkers beauty offerings.
Fuss free effortlessness is not usually a trait one might attribute to French women. And yet the overriding trend to emerge from today's offerings is as intimidating as a seven step skincare regime.
My last day of Milan Fashion Week was tinged with an ecclesiastical glow, partly because I was going home to my own bed, partly because I’d just interviewed the ridiculously handsome (and eloquent) David Gandy at Dolce&Gabbana’s HQ (more of that to follow) and partly because of the rapturous make-up looks we’d been privy to backstage at Dolce&Gabbana whose collection was inspired by the mosaics of the Monreale Cathedral in Sicily.
....that just about sums up day two of Milano although not necessarily in that order (and the panettone may have featured more than once).
After some spooky goings at yesterday's shows (Wednesday Addams made more than one appearance throughout the day as well as several other mysteriously macabre references), today’s highlights were a little more earthly even if they were set in the transcendental bowels of the Tate Modern.
This morning NYC came to ol' blighty - quite literally - and the effect was rather bedazzling
There's always a degree of buzz backstage (excluding one show, which shall remain nameless, where the designer had a full on meltdown declaring everything, including his clothes, a pile of s****!).
So, it was 'see ya' NYC and 'well hello there' London and from the outset it was a clear case of 'Toto I don't think we're in Kansas anymore'.
When it comes to hair styling I admit to feeling a bit of a fraud. Oh, I know exactly how to do it, I can even write about how to do it but when it comes to, well, actually doing it myself, I'm afraid dear reader I fail rather miserably.
Designers can be a nostalgic old lot, and today I found myself being teleported from the forties to the twenties and back, all by way of 2013.
