S/S 17 CATWALKS: AVANT GARDE BEAUTY
Extreme beauty looks have been appearing across all the major fashion weeks, with abstract patterns, bold colour strokes, face-paint inspired animal effects, vibrant neon eyes & lips and lots of glitter….
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Beauty Extremes
From selfies to viral hashtags, beauty trends influenced by social media are increasingly fluid and unexpected. Natural beauty – wearing very little or no makeup…
Drag as Art
Drag has entered the mainstream in recent years, following the popularity of events such as Sink the Pink, drag venue The Glory, and TV show Ru Paul’s…
Connected: Relationships with Beauty, Aging and Technology
Connected is a portrait of a woman grappling with aging, self-perception, and transformation in a technologically optimized world. Jackie (Pamela Anderson) is a burnt-out…
Trend Alert: Tech First Beauty
Make-up artist Charlotte Tilbury’s new flagship beauty boudoir in Covent Garden combines a fast beauty upper floor with ‘Quick Trick’ complimentary 15 minute make overs, multiple screens showing Tilbury’s YouTube tutorials and…
Festival Commerce with Beautycon
Beautycon is an annual beauty festival in New York, L.A., London and Dallas, where beauty fans connect with their favourite Vloggers and bloggers as well as beauty brands such as L’Oreal, Essie and…
NYFW S/S 16 Beauty Take Aways
Amber Eyes Blue Shadow Multi Hair Clips Half-up, Half-down Textured Comb Over USP: Glam-grunge translates to beauty.
NYFW S/S16 Emerging Trend: Plaits & Twists
Game of Thrones inspired hair continues at NYFW, with elaborate twists, plaits and off kilter partings featuring at Jsong and Alfaro. USP: Long and complicated…
Hair Tribes: City Slickers
From the catwalk to the red carpet, slicked back hair is everywhere. Seen first as a high fashion catwalk style, it has been re-appropriated…
See This: Warpaint, Alexander McQueen and Make-Up
‘Warpaint: Alexander McQueen and Make-Up’ at Fashion Space Gallery is a new satellite exhibition coinciding with the major retrospective Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty at the…
PFW: New perceptions of Beauty
Referring to his “darkest obsessions,” Riccardo Tisci’s A/W collection for Givenchy features a new take on gothic glam meets a dark and mysterious South American…
On our radar for 2015: Retail
Retail trends needs to change and adapt with how customers like to shop, while embracing and developing new technologies. Here are our predictions for…
Extreme beauty: Vogue Italia
Vogue Italia is often a source of great inspirational fashion and beauty images, and we love the latest editorial from photographer David Dunan. Strange and…
The Hunger Games’ fictional fashion world
Whether you’re a fan of the $1.5bn The Hunger Games franchise or not, the visual language created for the films is impressive, from the impoverished…
The beauty of imperfection
Imperfection can be far more powerful than glossy, airbrushed, performative perfection. Fashion brand D.Efect explores the beauty in imperfection in its latest film, where…
Trend Alert: Speckled
Dappled, flecked and honest markings inspire print and pattern. Taking inspiration from nature, geology and natural beauty, marks are loose and imperfect. Natural tones…
Trend Alert: Shade of Brown
Brown in all its forms is inspiring colour for A/W 15/16, be it in natural earthy natural shades or more contemporary technical tones. Add…
Trend Alert: Matte Imperfection
Beauty, fashion and materials are exploring a pared back neutrality which purposefully celebrates flaws and imperfections. Minimal, simplified aesthetics are subtly primitive and raw. Exposing imperfections, matte and…
The Fragrance Lab at Selfridges Beauty Project
The Fragrance Lab is a collaboration between trend forecasting agency The Future Laboratory and Selfridges, as part of their Beauty Project . Future Lab got together with…
TREND ALERT: Nail art meets technology
Transforming social media into tangible objects is an interesting idea. The NailSnaps app transforms Instagram photos into customized nail polish stickers. Users can decide how…
