Written by Tania Braukämper on 8 Feb 2013
There’s a fine line between an outfit that feels like a Halloween costume, and an outfit that feels like pure, fantastical, fairytale magic. Luckily for Pierpaolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri, they walk it often – and always manage to keep their balance. And so for Red Valentino’s fall / winter 2013 collection – with its gingerbread prints and folkish charm – it’s damn near…
Written by Tania Braukämper on 30 Dec 2012
A few nights of the year, we all get a free license to go crazy with hair and beauty looks we wouldn’t normally wear. Halloween is one of them. New Year’s is another. When it comes to a big New Year’s Eve party you want to feel the thrill and excitement of ushering in a whole new era. If that means looking more boldly glamorous…
Written by Tania Braukämper on 1 Nov 2012
Zombie eyes and vampire bites, Raggedy-Annes and leather-clad clowns. Halloween is like a free pass to either sex it up or get ultra gory, and the fashion world was doing both this week. We’re not entirely sure who Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, in lingerie and a Dello Russo sized serving of accessories, was dressed up as – but she couldn’t go unnoticed. Natasha Poly, meanwhile, makes for…
Written by Tania Braukämper on 1 Nov 2012
Witches, hornets, magpies and the living incarnation of a casino. With today’s date being October 31st, sharing these vintage costume illustrations from 1887 was somewhat irresistible.
Written by Tania Braukämper on 31 Oct 2012
With Halloween upon us, we’re caught up in the costumed side of horror. Fake blood trickling from the corners of mouths that sport plastic vampire teeth, ghostly apparitions made from white sheets (and plenty of imagination), invasions of makeup-covered zombies. But, to paraphrase Edgar Allan Poe, terror is not of any stories, but of the soul. Sometimes the greatest horrors are not supernatural, but the…
Written by Tania Braukämper on 27 Oct 2012
Whether you’re considering spending Halloween dressed up as Twiggy, or if you just want an excuse to delve into your vinyl collection and pump up some Stones – there’s nothing quite like a mod 1960s style makeup look to change your whole mood. And so that’s what we’re rounding up today. Big lashes, graphic lines, and plenty of mascara: watch the videos after the break…
Written by Melanie Lim on 23 Oct 2012
Halloween: that time of year when everyone has free reign to go crazy with costumes. But if you want to keep your air of glamour about you, then leave the zombie impersonations to others. Instead here are 5 makeup tutorials to try that will actually look good - taking inspiration from mermaids, vampires and fairytale queens alike.
Written by Tania Braukämper on 17 Jun 2012
There was a time when tailored suits and skeleton facepaint never chanced to meet – except, perhaps, upon the most dapper of Halloween goers. That was before Rick Genest (aka, Zombie Boy) drew mainstream fashion and full-body tattoos a little closer together. Whatever it was that inspired T.Lipop to contrast their sharp suits with makeup that turned models into sorrowful skeletons we do not know;…
Written by Tania Braukämper on 29 Mar 2012
Thick, vertical black and white stripes. By that description such a print could easily be mistaken for a Halloween costume where Beetlejuice is the inspiration. But outside the Louis Vuitton show at Paris fashion week Taylor Tomasi Hill boldly took the gamble and won. Though also spotted around town wearing the same pants with a simple and sophisticated shirt-under-knit combo, for LV she took to…
Written by Daniel P Dykes on 13 Feb 2012
It sounds nuts to write it but doesn't sound as nuts to read it, so here it goes: Christian Siriano's fall 2012 collection was inspired by horror films. Specifically a vampire one. Halloween designer costumes? Not quite. Though Siriano did offer up to New York fashion week (NYFW) plenty of vampish looks.
