By Emma Skipper & Kay Montano. It’s forever the season of new (and sometime pointless?) makeup launches so it’s a novelty to be excited over any range of cosmetics that comes out of leftfie...
London-born Liberty Ross grew up in LA until she was 7 when her family moved to Ladbroke Grove, West London. Liberty began her pro modelling career on a shoot for Vogue with Mario Testino. She was in...
Summer is well and truly here (well, that’s what it says on my calendar anyway) and the summer makeup collections are popping up on counters accordingly. As an ambassador for Chanel in the UK I manag...
Summer is here (if you are in the UK at least there’s a m-up collection that is) and holiday-inspired palettes are popping up on counters accordingly. As an ambassador for Chanel in the UK I pr...
Peony Lim shows the update on natural make-up..
The great hairdresser Vidal Sassoon died today. A true legend, renowned for his iconic 5 point haircut and other geometrically shaped strokes of genius, Vidal was the first fashion hairdresser to hav...
Finding a home for one’s pictorial past lives in one’s present one was how I found myself last week. I decided to confront my large cardboard boxes, you know, the ones that get marked ...
Eva Herzigova was discovered at a Czech beauty pageant and went on to become one of the most memorable models of the nineties with the Guess Campaign and that traffic-halting billboard Wonderbra camp...
Millie Kendall MBE is a beauty maven who likes to do things differently. Whether it’s launching a Japanese brand in a quintessential British store, selling make-up with an LA style of service, ...
‘Kay Montano wields her dark materials and transforms Tallulah Harlech into a hardcore urban warrior.’
By Emma Skipper Kay says, “Multi-tasking- pah- Is anyone really any good at it and who invented this folly anyway? For me, simply keeping the balls in the air alone without losing them is a sig...
Because London: ‘Tank’s fashion darling, Caroline Issa models Kay Montano’s navy blue smoky eye. A look drawn on at Rodarte SS12, the stormy skies dancing across the lid make this a...
Because London: ‘Fashion blogger and street style favourite Peony Lim stars in our latest make-up tutorial letting Kay Montano paint her eyes in shades of blue, teal and lilac. Inspired by the ...
I show you how to fake it…
Carolyn Murphy and I met when we were both starting out in NY in the nineties. I have so many fond memories of us working together with Mario Sorrenti, Testino, Bruce Weber and Ellen Von Unwerth̷...
Old films were often shown on TV at the weekends when I was a child so you tended to become a bit of a film buff by default. Naturally, therefore, I’d seen most of Alfred Hitchcock’s film...
By Emma Skipper “Every summer I like to find new and modern ways to approach summer make-up. I say out with obvious shimmery ‘glows’, in with a hint of 70′s California girl biking i...
Bora Kwon at BecauseLondon.com writes: ‘Fashion blogger and street style favourite Peony Lim stars in our latest make-up tutorial letting Kay Montano paint her eyes in shades of blue, teal and ...
Every time I mention that I am reading DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover to a friend (particularly to a male friend) I have been greeted with the same sentiment, “Of course you are!” They ...
The time has come for me to give a little back to my fabulous readers and what better way to do that give you guys a chance to get your paws on some of the most coveted products on my radar. Read on....
by Emma Skipper After fawning over the NARS for Thakoon collection that hit KM.com HQ a few weeks ago, we pulled together some of the most flaming makeup we could get our hands on for this week’s Kay...
What is British Beauty? It has been described as ‘refined’ and ‘well-bred’. It has been named ‘bonny’ or ‘quirky’, even charmingly parodied and at times judged as ‘unkempt’. Whatever ‘it’ is, British...
”Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.” Lauren Hutton, ex supermodel, one hell of a trailblazer. Like all of my fa...
I saw this black and white, curious masterpiece at the Cine Lumiere at The French Institute in London many years ago. It was made in 1966 by William Klein and stars a studio full of iconic 60′s...
By Emma Skipper We’ve been sitting on some of these gems for weeks and we’re finally getting around to shouting about them. Saying that, golden oldies aren’t the only thing we’ve got this week. There...
I’ve not spent much time with Daisy but every time I have, for some odd reason it’s been extremely glamorous. The first time we met was whilst being filmed at Chanel on New Bond St for Lo...
A few minutes in late Autumn with the fabulous British jewellery designer (and inspirational friend) Solange Azagury-Partridge. Solange has an incredible signature jewellery brand with exquisite, red...
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