Category: Fashion and Beauty

  • The 13 Best Beauty Street Style Moments From PFW SS25 Day 4

    The 13 Best Beauty Street Style Moments From PFW SS25 Day 4

    Photos by Seleen Saleh for ESSENCE. Day 4 of Paris Fashion Week featured runway shows from hot ticketed fashion houses Chloé, Rick Owens and Schiaparelli. Each presented their vision for Spring/Summer 2025. Chloé, under new creative director Chemena Kamali, made a return to its boho-chic roots, reimagining the brand’s signature aesthetic for modern times. Rick…

  • Kylie Jenner Reveals Her ‘Best’ Beauty Secret as She Stuns at Paris Fashion Week: Photos

    Kylie Jenner Reveals Her ‘Best’ Beauty Secret as She Stuns at Paris Fashion Week: Photos

    The night before Kylie’s busy day, the author took to her Instagram Story with a stunning mirror selfie after her night out with Kendall, 28, best friend Stassie Karanikolaou, 27, and their other close pal Gigi Hadid, 29. In the image, Kylie put on a sassy pout as she held a bowl of pasta with…

  • Art-Girl Bedhead Walks The Hermès Runway

    Art-Girl Bedhead Walks The Hermès Runway

    As the French Republican Guard horses in training galloped around Hermès backstage tents at Garde Républicaine this morning, inside, the runway canvas was being prepped. Rather than last season’s chunky red eyelashes and wet look calling in horse-girls-gone-wild, models with patent glossy lips and parted hair pulled into fuzzy low ponytails milled around backstage drinking…

  • How Millennial Black Women Navigate Beauty Standards At Work And Off The Clock: Study

    How Millennial Black Women Navigate Beauty Standards At Work And Off The Clock: Study

    by Jeroslyn JoVonn September 28, 2024 A new study shows how millennial women dress in intracultural beauty standards outside of work and Eurocentric standards when at work. A new study is digging into the beauty standards of millennial women and how many feel they “cannot afford to ignore mainstream beauty standards” in and out of…

  • Hermès Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection

    Hermès Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection

    Fashion has taken a turn for the sexy. It tends to happen in spring seasons, but this year it’s more pronounced than ever, with cone bras from the 1950s and Victorian underpinnings like hoop skirts and pantaloons from more than half a century earlier turning up on the runways. Hermès’s Nadège Vanhée had a similar…

  • French Girls Are Co-Signing Fall’s Boldest Hair Color Trend

    French Girls Are Co-Signing Fall’s Boldest Hair Color Trend

    At what point does a trending beauty look eclipse social media algorithms and internet attention spans to be considered a timeless staple? Is it when a handful of celebrities give it a spin after it’s gone viral online? Or is it when you start to see it on your friends or co-workers who aren’t chronically…

  • In Pictures: Rick Owens’ Magnificent Parade of Doomed Beauties

    In Pictures: Rick Owens’ Magnificent Parade of Doomed Beauties

    September 28, 2024 Lead ImageRick Owens Spring/Summer 2025 womenswearPhotography by Harry Miller “Epic” was the word someone uttered to me about halfway through Rick Owens’ cast-of-thousands Spring/Summer 2025 spectacular. Fashion show doesn’t really cut it as a descriptor. He called it Hollywood, so that was the general gist. And indeed, as if in a movie, just…

  • The coat that rocked

    The coat that rocked

    Faux fur leopard print, £125, New Look Faux fur leopard print, £125, New Look Wool-look trench coat, £45, Tu Clothing Wool-look trench coat, £45, Tu Clothing Twill jacket, £54.99, H&M Twill jacket, £54.99, H&M Double breasted trench coat, £44 (was £89), Light Before Dark at Urban Outfitters Double breasted trench coat, £44 (was £89), Light…

  • ‘Fashion for me is effortless, comfortable and keeping it real’: Eternal beauty Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

    ‘Fashion for me is effortless, comfortable and keeping it real’: Eternal beauty Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

    Eternal beauty Aishwarya Rai Bachchan made a splash on the global canvas when she was crowned as Miss World in 1994 and till date she exudes royalty whenever she makes an appearance. For the superstar, keeping it real, comfortable and effortless reigns supreme when it comes to fashion. Talking about how she would define her…

  • Dianne Kendal Opts for Understated Beauty at Rabanne’s SS25 Show

    Dianne Kendal Opts for Understated Beauty at Rabanne’s SS25 Show

    At the Rabanne Spring/Summer 2025 show, vibrant and colorful clothing served as a foundation for the brand’s beauty looks. The makeup was a delicate balance of simplicity and sophistication, with a sun-kissed, reflective glow as its key component during the brand’s Paris Fashion Week runway showcase. Rabanne Beauty Creative Director Dianne Kendal and Julien Dossena…