Archival cosmetics? Totally. Mining its iconic history for fall, Yves Saint Laurent introduces two new powder compacts, Palette Esprit Couture, that take their inspiration from a single dress in the house's fall 1983 haute couture collection: a velvet, off-the-shoulder, satin-bowed number. Which means your eyes and face, no matter their color, will be dressed in silky shades (four per compact) ranging from porcelain white to deep purple—and all extra-soft and comfortable, thanks to little moisturizing miracles called hydracaps. Lipsticks, nail polish, foundations and other eye shadows round out the make-up mastery. $57 at Nordstrom.
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A little like Midas in a bottle, that elusive golden glow can be yours when you touch up with La Prairie's Cellular Radiance Concentrate Pure Gold. According to the trusty Swiss company, a drop or two of the light gel—suspended with 24-carat gold, as well as quartz, liquid crystals and reflective pigments—quickly dissolves into the skin, restoring elasticity and firmness, diminishing lines and evening out pigmentation. But expect to hand over serious coinage to get the gildy luster—$525 for 1 oz, to be exact. The metal isn't precious for nothing. —Angharad Llewellyn
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The deepest blue before black. That's how Raf Simons describes Jil Sander Man, his first fragrance for the German label, available in a men's range of eau de parfum, after shave and hair/body shampoos. Not for the rugged, the juice relies mostly on lavender, set off with bergamot, violet and blue cedar. The bad news: it's available only in Europe. The good news (at least for the other half)? A new women's fragrance is slated to hit counters next year... Marc Jacobs is showing off his cheery new disposition with Daisy, a carefree, citrus-based eau de toilette ($55 for 1.7 oz) that takes its tarty cues from his Marc by Marc Jacobs line. A rounded bottle with vinyl petals adds to the fun. In New York at Bloomingdales and, starting September, at Marc Jacobs boutiques... Complementing its kicky young Nina fragrance for fall, the house of Nina Ricci has released its classic L’Air du Temps perfume ($250) in two new Lalique crystal bottles, in pearl and dark blue, symbolizing morning and night.
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Hold the carbons, please. From Australia’s Stem Organics, the world's first climate-neutral-certified beauty company, comes emissions-free, free-radical-fighting skin treatments. Yet of the eight holistic goops in the range, perhaps none is as freeing an experience as Exquisite Face Fluid ($59 for 1.7 oz), a super-antioxidant that gets its anti-aging power from a combination of polyphenols in pomegranate and vitamin C in kakadu plum, wild-harvested in its native land down under. Rosehip, meanwhile, regenerates skin while jojoba chases down fine lines. You'll be hearing a lot more from co-founders Lara Deutsch and Myke Christoffel now that the line is finally available stateside at Fred Segal in L.A. (500 Broadway, Santa Monica, 310-394-8509) and online. —Robyn Dutra
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Shoptart
You might think, given his collaboration with leather-goods house Schott, that Jeremy Scott is going butch. After all, Schott created the biker jackets worn by Marlon Brando and James Dean. But no, that manly legacy is given a swishy twist, like this rococo tea print of treasure trolls in pastoral repose. Also this month: Marni, Stella McCartney, Tom Binns and more. Message Boards
"Madonna starves herself on a raw macrobiotic kosher vegan kaballah diet and works out three hours a day to maintain the physique of a 12-year-old gymnast boy, and then has the cheeks of a 300-pound woman implanted into her face. And her forehead is like a plastic baby's bottom. It's like Nicole Kidman's forehead at the height of her botox addiction, and we all remember how unfortunate that era was."  Hint Shop
If Rad Hourani were writing this blurb, it would be over already. That's because, for the soon-to-explode French-Canadian designer, it's all about extreme minimalism. Thus, the concept behind this one-size-fits-all, unisex, sleeveless T-shirt—printed with the dates and times of a calendar—is that it can be worn by anyone, anytime. |
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