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Princess Diana graced us with many iconic looks, but perhaps none more lasting than the trademark short hairstyle she sported during the final years of her life. It turns out, the signature look was the result of an impulsive haircut. In a new video for British Vogue, legendary Scottish hairstylist Sam McKnight opened up about his […]

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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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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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From the ’80s feels we happily embraced, to the abundance of pink, beauty at the Spring 2018 Couture shows gave us plenty to marvel at. See our favourites from the week below: Dior Double trouble! Few minutes before the Dior Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2018 show earlier this afternoon! #DiorCouture #PFW #diormakeup Photo by @vincent_lappartient_ A […]

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Since opening in 2015 and 2016, respectively, Tony Pham has made his Toronto salon Lac + Co., and his aesthetics location a few doors down, Lac + Beauty, go-tos for services and destinations that showcase some of the biggest names in the beauty industry. Whether it’s visits from L.A. colourists Johnny Ramirez and Tracey Cunningham, to offering French […]

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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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A post shared by ?abroad until further notice️ (@abroaduntilfurthernotice) on Jan 8, 2016 at 5:57pm PST I once spent six wonderful months in London working as junior editor at a small and zany book publishing house. It was summer then, it was sunny then, and people drank beer on sidewalks out front of the pub. […]

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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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A photo posted by Soo Joo (@soojmooj) on Oct 6, 2015 at 3:28am PDT Paris Fashion week had more than a few double tap-worthy beauty moments. For one, Pat McGrath went off the grid to preview her limited edition gilded makeup in the Jardins des Tuileries, painting beautiful and graphic gold shapes around and on […]

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A photo posted by Charlotte Tilbury (@ctilburymakeup) on Aug 19, 2015 at 9:47am PDT Many Europeans take a month off in August. The whole month. That includes some of our favourite runway makeup artists and hairstylists like Charlotte Tilbury and Sam McKnight. In fact, right now many of them are poolside, having dinner al fresco with friends, […]

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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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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.