For a lot of people, orange is a hard color to pull off. Surprisingly though, orange is a very flattering color since it instantly adds a natural glow to your skin tone. This spring, designers lit up the runways with a range of vibrant tangerines, neon oranges and amped-up corals that looked yummy and wearable all at once. But if you’re not used to wearing orange, it can seem a little tricky. So here’s how to make sure you’re wearing the right hues at …

Even if your complexion isn’t as flawless as a china doll’s, you can achieve a natural, gorgeous look by using the right make-up techniques. Renowned makeup artist, and author of Crazy Busy Beautiful, Carmindy shows you how to lightly layer products to create a fresh and easy look.
Protect and Prevent
You already know that moisturizing with an SPF is essential in preventing wrinkles, but sun protection is also the first step in creating a flawless makeup-free look. After all, you don’t just want to …

Pamela Anderson, the recently-announced spokesperson for M.A.C. AIDS Fund and the new face of VIVA GLAM V Lipstick will host the 19th annual Fashion Cares in Toronto on June 4 and will donate $100,000, on behalf of the Fund, to the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Within just one month since becoming the newest face of VIVA GLAM, Anderson raised over $1,8 mln. for the M.A.C. AIDS Fund. The 37-year-old Baywatch star has focused her attention on the importance of getting tested and knowing …

Safari chic was the mood of clothing at key spring/summer shows such as Burberry, Alexander Wang and Celine, and the same desert-inspired colours were a mainstay for make-up, too. At Catherine Malandrino the collection was inspired by ‘women of the world’, with Tom Pecheux and his make-up team creating four different looks inspired by different deserts across the globe, with ’sweated-through’ smudged mascara and bronzed cheeks. Lisa Eldridge created a rather beautiful ‘post-apocalyptic’ beauty look at Todd Lynn, where the girls’ skin was sand-blasted …

Seldom has the synergy between fashion and fragrance been as strong as it is this spring/summer, thanks to a new trend in both arenas for the colour purple. On the runways, Burberry’s classic trenches were reinvented in lilac, while Versace and Dior both showed sumptuous purple gowns. In fragrance, purple is a scarcely-used shade, but inexplicably this year, even fragrances with scents that aren’t centred around purplish flowers like lilacs and violets are being sold in gleamingly purple bottles, from the rose-based Stella …

A purple haze descended onto the catwalks for spring/summer, proving to be the most popular of the pastels. Whether it was the washed-out violet extensions in the hair of the edgy surfer girls at Proenza Schouler or the strong lavender lids contrasting the statement red lips at Dior, or even the doubling up of metallic mauve on eyes and lips by Dick Page at Michael Kors, one thing was for sure – beauty is having an ultra-violet moment. The most wearable way to wear the …

Move over, Madonna. Louis Vuitton’s new face for Spring is Lara Stone, who’s been shot by Steven Meisel rolling around in the dirt. Vuitton exec Antoine Arnault described the campaign as “fresh and summery,” hopefully to coincide with brighter times—because nothing says “financial rebound” like mud-caked finery. [WWD]
Meanwhile, Akris has a new face for Spring, [...]

When Kerry Taylor previewed her Audrey Hepburn auction in Paris, 2,000 people showed up, including Hubert de Givenchy, who’d designed most of the dresses on display. Taylor introduced a little crowd control for Monday’s London preview—you had to buy a £10 catalog before you got in the door—but if the turnout was substantially smaller, it [...]

At this time of year, with a trip home on the horizon and long airport lines to contend with, I’m ready to leave behind my work shoes—super-high platforms, of course—and slip my feet into something a little more comfortable. (Not to mention something that slides off easily for airport security.) That’s why I love Yosi [...]

Just don’t call it a retrospective. That was the message at the Prada store in Soho today, as a new book documenting the world of Prada was unveiled to members of the press. Formally launched at an event earlier this week at the Prada store in Milan, PRADA was conceived and edited by Miuccia Prada [...]