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After ten years working the international fashion show circuit, Olivia Colacci opened her hair studio Twentyseven in an effort to slow down, but the Toronto native isn’t staying away from the rollercoaster-paced thrill and surreal glam of fashion week completely. “Fashion week is the best education I could get,” says Colacci. “I learn firsthand the newest trends […]

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When was the last time you reached for a bottle of hair gel? Not the spritz format that gives curls polish or volume—no, we’re talking goopy, sticky hair gel. Over the past few days, across the pond at London Fashion Week, this stalwart of the hair world made a comeback of sorts. Hair gel was […]

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Guido Palau is nestled in the corner of a brocade couch in the dining room of La Galerie at Paris’s Four Seasons Hotel George V. While drinking a cup of tea, the legendary hairstylist and global creative director for Redken admits that he’s never been to Canada. “I know, terrible,” he says. It’s day three […]

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I hate the word ‘salon,’” says Olivia Colacci, which is why the hairstylist called Twentyseven, her recently opened business in Toronto, a “hair studio” instead. “It’s that ‘salon hair,’” she says of her distaste for the word. Formulaic blow-drys are not Colacci’s thing; she’s spent the last 10 years working on teams led by editorial […]

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New York Fashion Week Fall 2018 wraps up tonight and before we move along to London, Milan and Paris, it’s worth noting that New York has set a great precedent of strong beauty messages this season. Full of feminist ideas depicted through hair and makeup, we caught up with the beauty pros backstage at NYFW […]

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British Vogue editor in chief Edward Enninful is continuing on with changes to the masthead and his newest announcement is a bit a of a head-scratcher. Pat McGrath, known as “Mother” in her industry circle, as well as one of Enninful’s BFFs (their history goes back to his days at i-D) has been named beauty […]

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Otherworldly is one word that comes to mind when describing the beauty moments from Spring 2017 Haute Couture week. Given that couture is the crème de la crème of fashion, it’s not surprising to see beauty trends that are out of this world this time of year. Structured hair seems to be the biggest trend […]

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LIVE on #Periscope: @JenAtkinhair @ManeAddicts and Guido Talk All Things Hair https://t.co/FSoyO3t2xR — REDKEN (@Redken5thAve) October 4, 2016 Well, this is lovely. Celeb hairstylist Jen Atkin interviewed hairstylist (and mainstay at fashion week season after season) Guido Palau on Redken 5th Ave‘s Periscope, and we found out that Atkin used to assist on Palau’s team […]

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A photo posted by Gucci (@gucci) on Mar 1, 2015 at 4:17am PST Hair accessories: they’ve been a beauty trend for a few seasons, but while they look amazing on Karlie Kloss coming down the runway, they can sometimes be too theatrical to pull off IRL. (No offense, Sam McKnight’s crocodile tails.) Often made by the […]

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A photo posted by Guido Palau (@guidopalau) on Feb 26, 2015 at 10:16am PST As far as runway beauty looks go, ponytails can be crazy boring, and a buzzkill for beauty editors; whenever we show up backstage to find hairstylists pulling strands back into a swishy tail, it’s over to makeup and nails we march, […]

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As bare-bones beauty dominates the runways, a few holdouts are making sure fantasy lives on.

It was a casual remark, meant to highlight the exceptional craftsmanship behind the Old Hollywood-inspired, ultra-glamorous sets he devised for the Armani Privé Fall 2013 Couture show. But hairstylist Orlando Pita’s words backstage in Paris last summer offered an astute commentary on the state of runway beauty as a whole: “Now that John Galliano and Alexander McQueen are gone from the business, a new guard has created a kind of couture that relates to the street,” he said. “It was always about fantasy; that’s gone for now.”

The role of the backstage beauty team is to complete the full translation from the designer’s mind; it helps refine the woman, or the character, who would wear the clothes. Certain designers stuck to their fantasy-driven existence for spring, with all the over-the-top beauty fanfare that goes with it (Gareth Pugh’s alien-inspired eyebrow discs; Thom Browne’s frizzy-haired, smudged-makeup insane asylum patients; Vivienne Westwood’s similarly unnerved walking dead iteration). However, if you take a look at some of the most anticipated shows of the past few seasons, the resonance of Pita’s statement becomes much louder. From Proenza Schouler, Alexander Wang and The Row to Burberry Prorsum, Christopher Kane, Balmain and Isabel Marant, there has been an overwhelming reliance on minimal makeup and easy, undone hair that was most certainly not in the phrasebooks of Galliano or McQueen—or Thierry Mugler and Azzedine Alaïa, for that matter.

See the backstage beauty report for Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2013 »

For Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2013, the divine beauty look complemented the religious iconography that inspired the collection. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana blessed their designs with elaborate motifs from the mosaics in Sicily’s Cathedral of Monreale. “We love the contrast it creates with the sensuality and the passion of the Dolce & Gabbana woman,” says Gabbana. Hair was backcombed for extra volume volume and gathered at the nape of the neck for what Guido Palau described as “natural Italian allure.”

The allure continued with the makeup, inspired by the country’s iconic screen siren, Sophia Loren. Pat McGrath paid homage with a classic cat eye and bold brow. As for the ultra-rich red lips, two shades of lipstick were mixed to create a custom hue and applied overtop a base of ruby-red pencil. Finally, the Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2013 beauty look became a complete sensory experience with a few spritzes of the label’s latest scent, Intense. “Every time we go to Sicily, we are overwhelmed by the smell of the land,” says Dolce. “Flowers of every kind mix with the notes of the sea to create a unique bouquet.”