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Mercedes-Benz Spring ’12 Fashion Week NYC: Preen

This year’s Preen spring show at the IAC building was all about Victorian-era inspiration combined with a modern edge, from ruffled collars on patchwork patterned clothing to precise and elegant hair. Soft pastels and Japanese floral prints swept the runway, where models walked before a glass wall and light show that reflected the colors of [...]

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Mercedes-Benz Spring ’12 Fashion Week NYC: Victoria Beckham

For Victoria Beckham’s spring show at the New York Public Library’s Astor Hall, Redken Creative Consultant Guido designed a hairstyle to identify an independent, sophisticated woman, or as he put it, Catherine Deneuve with added masculinity. “The

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Mercedes-Benz Spring ’12 Fashion Week NYC: Yigal Azrouel

At this year’s Yigal Azrouel spring show at Highline Studio, things were kept fashionably casual, mimicking “something a girl in New York would buy,” said Jimmy Paul, hairstylist for Bumble and bumble. “It’s a simple look, very urbane, very real,

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A Few Beauty Favorites at FNO

Vogue and CFDA’s third annual Fashion’s Night Out (FNO) was a huge success, bringing freebies, makeovers, music and celebrities to excited shoppers in New York City last night. Companies like Redken, Sebastian Professional and Essie beautified gues

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Mercedes-Benz Spring ’12 Fashion Week NYC: Hyden Yoo

The Hyden Yoo spring 2012 collection was inspired by the Oscar nominated film L’amant, reviving a 1920s look and playing off the plot’s romance between an expat and a South Asian native during neocolonialism. Guests strolled through the tent and

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Mercedes-Benz Fall ‘11 Fashion Week NYC: The Blonds

Kristina Estabrooks, lead nail artist, for Creative Nail Design (CND), described to American Salon the amazing details of the firebreathing “Mori and Moto” dragons that were created for The Blonds runway show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in

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Mercedes-Benz Fall ‘11 Fashion Week NYC: J.Mendel

Creating a soft, low chignon knot at the nape of the neck, Guido, lead stylist for Redken created a look inspired by the 1970′s French Emmanuelle films and the Victorian era. Guido started by center parting the hair and pulling it back with his f

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Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week NYC Fall ‘10: Zac Posen

It might have been early, but the backstage area of Zac Posen’s Fall 2010 Collection show was a flurry of hair, nails and makeup—and plenty of coffee. of course. For hair, Odile Gilbert for L’Oreal Professionnel created a middle-parted, wavy look u

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Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week NYC Fall ‘10: Erin Fetherston

Inspired by Nico of the Velvet Underground, Erin Fetherston’s Fall 2010 Collection brought together bohemian styles with rock’n'roll tailoring. Odile Gilbert for Moroccanoil followed that lead and gave all of the models long, straight hair with drama

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Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week NYC Fall ‘10: Herve Leger

Shown beneath the tents at Bryant Park, Herve Leger’s sophistication-meets-urban-edge Fall 2010 Collection was beautifully complemented by natural, free-flowing “undone ponytails,” styled by Bob Recine for Moroccanoil. He used one product—Luminous

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