Aside from iconic landmarks like Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, and Piccadilly Circus, when most people think of London, they imagine certain items and figures that are ubiquitous in The Big Smoke: red cabinet-like phone booths, the uniformed sentries guarding Windsor Castle and the Tower of London, and, of course, the double-decker buses escorting tourists through the city.
Outerwear trends vary dramatically this season, so that we’re as likely to see faux fur chubby coats in candy-worthy pastels as we are sarape-inspired blanket coats and robe coats with wide lapels and self-tie waist sashes.
Much like Beluga caviar is widely considered synonymous with wealth, luxury, sophistication and indulgence, Laura Mercier’s Caviar Stick Eye Colours ($28 each at LauraMercier.com and Sephora.com) epitomize opulence —that is, within the makeup realm.
The worlds of fashion and technology are becoming more and more intertwined.
If there’s one woman who has consistently proven that hats aren’t merely utilitarian accessories designed to keep heads warm during blustery winter days or to shield women in tropical climates from harsh and oppressive-feeling rays of sunshine, it would be Eugenia Kim.
When you’re as brilliant, talented, and well-respected as NARS Founder and Creative Director François Nars, you not only get to climb to the very top of the makeup artistry realm, masterminding some of the most memorable editorial and runway beauty looks in recent decades, but you get to build your very own beauty empire (he famously launched his eponymous cosmetics brand in 1994); steer your company to commercial success without sacrificing its innately and effortlessly cool DNA; then sell it to Shiseido (which he did in 2000) while retaining complete creative control of the brand, its product development, and the imagery associated with every new campaign and initiative.
At the height of the Flower Child era, in the 1960s, Kiehl’s found itself exploring the healing power of blossoms but, rather than concentrating on the daisies and sunflowers that adorned the strands of peace sign-flashing, free love-espousing hippies, the famed apothecary researched the virtues of the marigold.
Hopefully, you’ve been keeping up with all of our posts regarding ULTA Beauty’s “21 Days of Beauty” campaign, a three-week long celebration (taking place September 20th-27th) involving special in-store events, one-day-only special offers on best-selling beauty products, BOGO deals, and exciting new launches exclusive to ULTA Beauty.
The autumn season has officially commenced and, already, we can see leaves starting to change colors and float down from tree branches, landing atop streets, lawns, and sidewalks where they’ll be raked into piles — veritable mountains that children will beg to jump in with their Wellington boots.
On Thursday evening, I had the honor of attending the Icons of Style awards hosted by Vanidades, a beloved Spanish-language fashion, beauty, and lifestyle magazine that I grew up reading (my mom had a subscription when I was a child in Puerto Rico) and which, to a great extent, probably lured me into both a career in publishing and, later, a more acute focus on fashion.
