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In The Mirror
I wrote this personal piece for Amanda De Cadenet as part of the community of women contributing to ‘The Conversation‘, Amanda’s insightful new TV programme for Lifetime TV in the US (coming soon to...
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Cosmo & the legacy of Helen Gurley Brown
Call me old fashioned, call me modern but I’m proud to call myself a feminist in the way I have grown up to understand it. To some, therefore, it may be a surprising to hear that I was a huge fan of...
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This Make-Up Artist’s Basics
The Photoshop revolution has made it hard to tell make-up artists, photographers and- yikes- at times even models- apart, as many of the top fashion magazines have embraced a hyper-real, clone-like...
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The Oracle on BB Creams by the pros who’ve done the research
Bora Kwon, Kathy Phillips, Nadine Baggott and Kate Shapland tell all that needs to be known about the question nobody seemed to answer properly: What is a BB Cream exactly and what makes it...
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Wanderlust. Diana Vreeland
“The best thing about London, is Paris” Diana Vreeland A few weeks ago I walked for hours along the left bank with hairdresser Johnnie Sapong. Our actress didn’t need us and we simply wandered. I...
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Chanel M-Up/Warhol Mash-Up
“As we look evermore closely at Warhol’s portraits, we see that he was making people ready for the photo-graphic age. This is the true moment of image society, in which human subjects henceforth...
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A Short Film about Eyelashes
Last summer I got together with Nina and Max from the innovative, British eye make-up brand Eyeko to create a short make-up film. We were fortunate to collaborate with photographer and filmaker Chris...
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Jerry Hall, Beauty Icon
Although our style of clothes and make-up may modify somewhat over the years, I think that our innate style references stem from those who inspired our formative selves. To my 12 year-old mind...
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Happy new whatever
“Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will — through work — bump into other...
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Johanna Stickland, voice of an ex-model
As I often do in my travels online, I stumbled across a voice that resonated in the form of ex-model Johanna Stickland. ‘Ex-model’. I tried hard to find a less stigmatized way of introducing a person...
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