[ad_1] “Everybody in Haiti believes in ancient wisdom, ancestral medicine,” says Harvey Gedeon, a silver-haired beauty industry veteran who spent his childhood there. Whenever he was sick growing up, his family would summon his godmother’s mother—a traditional healer known as a doktè feuille. (The phrase translates to “leaf doctor,” owing […]
Category: Beauty
Makeup Artist–Led Brands Have Entered the Skin Care Chat
[ad_1] One evening in Venice this past May, it was Anne Hathaway’s moment to shine—and her makeup artist, Gucci Westman, was responsible for making that happen. In preparing the actor for a Bulgari high jewelry event (Hathaway is a brand ambassador), Westman sought to balance a fresh-faced makeup look with […]
Artist Carmen Winant on Building a New Visual Language Around Abortion
[ad_1] Who gets to decide what abortion looks like? In Carmen Winant’s latest exhibition, “The last safe abortion,” on view at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, a wall of tiled-together photographs offers a sprawling community portrait. A clinic employee cradles a corded phone beside a desktop copy of The New […]
Austin Butler on Motorcycles, Marlon Brando, and the Scent of Nuanced Masculinity
[ad_1] Call it a bit of French humor, that one of the most striking portraits of Yves Saint Laurent should show the fashion designer stripped of his clothes. The year was 1971. Photographer Jeanloup Sieff and his sandy-haired subject decided on a spare set-up: three black leather cushions stacked on […]
The Pursuit of Beauty Fuels a Dark Streak in Fiction
[ad_1] “We smile while our faces burn, we love it so. Because we know magic is happening, just like in a fairy tale.” By the time Mirabelle Nour—the narrator of Mona Awad’s latest novel, Rouge (Marysue Rucci Books)—speaks this gauzy ode to exfoliation into the mirror, she is already in […]
Jennifer Fisher’s Favorite Things | Vanity Fair
[ad_1] Jennifer Fisher built an empire on bijoux, but before she was a jewelry designer, she collected watches. “My two favorites that I rotate most often are my Large Men’s Yellow Gold Cartier Chrono and my Men’s Yellow Gold Rolex Daytona with a mother-of-pearl face,” she says. Still, an ever-present […]
The Bride Wore Orange Blossom: A History of Wedding Day Scents
[ad_1] When Queen Victoria married her beloved Prince Albert in 1840, she cast aside the traditions of earlier noble-born brides—and unwittingly changed the course of wedding history. For one thing, she proposed. In lieu of a velvet jewel-toned look, she chose a white dress (a trend that she is credited […]
Rabanne Beauty Brings a Pop-Futurist Spirit to Makeup
[ad_1] The fashion press was not prepared for Paco Rabanne’s first runway show in 1966. The title alone was a provocation: “Twelve Unwearable Dresses in Contemporary Materials.” Models strode through Paris’s Hotel George V wearing jangly constructions made of Rhodoid or metal tiles, each pieced together with rings using needle-nose […]
Adwoa Aboah on Gurls Talk Dialogues and the Off-Kilter Side of Fragrance
[ad_1] Adwoa Aboah owes her green thumb to happenstance. “I’ve got a south-facing garden, which my mom’s really jealous about because it just grows everything in it,” the Londoner says of her home there, surprisingly lush. “It’s a hot box.” Aboah considers herself a late bloomer in the horticultural sense, […]
The Best Floral Clothing, From Cottagecore to Dutch Still Life
[ad_1] Artists have long taken flowers as their muse: Piet Mondrian’s primary-hued Amaryllis; Kehinde Wiley’s weighted backdrops; Vincent van Gogh’s sunflowers, irises, and poppies; a hundred Dutch still lifes. Now floral designer Lindsey Taylor translates some of the world’s most notable pieces of art into stunning bouquets. Sprouting from the […]
Is the Future of Beauty Waterless? How Climate Concern Sparked a New Wave of Solid Formulas
[ad_1] One of the most defining, if contrived, gestures in the skinfluencer era is a glass dropper applied to the cheekbone, dispensing a thin rivulet of a prized serum. A multi-step routine has long involved a cocktail of such potions and creams, layered in an aqueous strata. Lately, though, we’re […]
Fall’s New Serums Give the Botanical World a High-Tech Spin
[ad_1] The fresh ginseng sitting on a laboratory table at the Amorepacific research center in Osan, an hour outside Seoul, has the curious shape of a frilly, tentacled carrot—as if closer kin to a deep-sea creature than a root vegetable. In this tidy corner of the campus, staffed by Sulwhasoo […]