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EXCLUSIVE: “A Soft, Fresh Look With A Subtle Edge,” Backstage At Chanel...
Temperatures reached a low of 30 degrees Fahrenheit last night at Scotland’s Linlithgow Palace, where the Chanel faithful had gathered to watch Karl Lagerfeld’s latest Métiers d’Art triumph. Brand...
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EXCLUSIVE: Peter Philips on Chanel’s “Dark and Fragile” Couture Beauty Look
Peter Philips has been making a case for the statement eye a lot recently. The Chanel creative director of makeup added “a touch of edginess” to Karl Lagerfeld’s tartan-rich Métiers d’Art pre-fall...
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Throwback Thursday: Ace Of Lace
Throwback Thursday is a new feature on Beauty Counter in which we pore over the pages of our favorite glossies from decades past in search of a little modern-day makeup and hair inspiration.The Model:...
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“Punky” In Purple, Backstage At Fendi
The mulberry mouth that dominated the Fall 2012 shows is having a bit of a resurgence this season, although it’s popping up in a few unexpected variations. “Kiki de Montparnasse. That was the reference...
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Fred, Ginger, And A “Bejeweled Ear,” Backstage At Dries Van Noten
“There’s a Fred-and-Ginger theme,” Peter Philips revealed backstage at Dries Van Noten, explaining the designer’s nod to the thirties-era dance duo. Uninformed, and you’d have been hard-pressed to pick...
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Peter Philips Goes for Glitter Backstage at Chanel
Paris’ Grand Palais is appropriately named. The turn-of-the-20th-century venue is massive, and so are the Chanel shows that take place there every season. The fact that the audience here is perched in...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Chanel’s Glitter-Flecked Cat-Eyes, Live And On Camera
Peter Philips’ beauty look at Chanel is almost always a highlight of our fashion month. The makeup artist, who is known for the way he frequently expands upon the traditional idea of face painting with...
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Throwback Thursday: The Ears Have It
Throwback Thursday is a new feature on Beauty Counter in which we pore over the pages of our favorite glossies from decades past in search of a little modern-day makeup and hair inspiration.The Model:...
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The Girl With The (Chanel) Glitter In Her Eyes
It was only a matter of time. Ever since Peter Philips glued chunky pieces of jumbo glitter onto models’ eyelids at Chanel’s Fall show in lieu of actual liner, we’ve been waiting for someone to reprise...
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EXCLUSIVE: “Exaggerated, Graphic” Two-Tone Liner, Backstage At Chanel Cruise
Peter Philips has said it before, and he all but screamed it on Chanel’s Cruise runway in Singapore yesterday: Karl Lagerfeld loves an eye. In fact, backstage-beauty watchers will have to look all the...
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Better Off Beige
When news broke before the shows started last season that makeup artist Peter Philips would be giving up his title as Chanel creative director of makeup, we took some solace in the fact that he’d still...
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Nail Bling, Brows, and Grace Jones, Backstage At Chanel Couture
Few fashion-show teams work the way Karl Lagerfeld, Sam McKnight, and Peter Philips do; like the designs in Lagerfeld’s Chanel Couture collections, the accompanying hair and makeup looks also come...
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Getting Wiggy With It, Backstage at Fendi
Everything is going digital these days—a fact acknowledged by Karl Lagerfeld at Fendi this season. The concept was infused into the collection via graphic shapes rendered in close-cropped fur and bold...
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Golden Girls, Backstage at Dries Van Noten
Peter Philips is known as the master of makeup invention, and when it came to the eyelashes at Dries Van Noten, he certainly spun standard string into beauty gold. After evening out complexions with...
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Play Up Your Best Assets
While we’ve seen some interesting things done with eyeliner in the past (Peter Philips at Chanel and Fendi anyone?), the bum shot that makeup artist Wendy Rowe posted on Instagram today was certainly...
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Gallery Girls, Backstage at Chanel
Karl Lagerfeld turned the Grand Palais into a double-C-branded gallery, complete with a Chanel No. 5 robot, a canvas dripping with pearls, and a towering sculpture of the female form comprised of the...
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Helmet Hair, Backstage at Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen’s woman is never a wallflower and always a warrior, hair pro Guido Palau explained, fitting all forty models with metal helmets (designed by both Sarah Burton and himself). And...
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Throwback Thursday: Work of Art
Throwback Thursday is a column on Beauty Counter in which we pore over the pages of our favorite glossies from decades past in search of a little modern-day makeup and hair inspiration. The Moment:...
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Make Your Mark With Temptu
Backstage, there was a lot of airbrushing going on, but the pros weren’t perfecting complexions Photoshop-style—far from it. Pat McGrath scrawled muted shades of mustard, green, purple, and blue across...
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Artists in Residence
This past season, one of the most impressive runway displays was the double-C branded “art gallery” at Chanel. It was dreamed up by (who else?) Karl Lagerfeld, and makeup guru Peter Philips took his...
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