Behind the scenes of our 25th anniversary cover

January 17, 2023/22.25

Once Lindsay Adler’s photo shoot arrived here, there was still plenty of work to do to get the 25th anniversary cover just right, says Jack Yan […]

The return of Nicole and Papa: Renault tells real-life stories to promote Mégane E-Tech

June 18, 2022/22.53

We’ve already heard the ‘Johnny and Mary’ song return to Renault commercials, and now it’s the turn of Nicole and Papa, Renault UK’s iconic daughter-and-father duo who helped get the original Clio into the country’s top-ten sellers in the early 1990s. This time, it’s the all-electric Mégane E-Tech that’s the star of the commercials, […]

Nosta Beauty taps into the ’80s with a VHS-inspired face palette

February 1, 2021/1.14

Nostalgia is a big pull, especially in uncertain times, and make-up artist Tiffany Tarazi’s Nosta Beauty has tapped into that with an ingenious face palette that taps in to the video cassette boom of the 1980s. Called the Swatch Me Face Palette Vol. 1, it’s ‘the first ever VHS ’80s-inspired multi-use face palette,’ with […]

Second Makeup Revolution × Friends beauty collection released

November 4, 2020/11.30

There’s often a two-decade rule when it comes to revivals, and Revolution Beauty’s collaboration with Friends still manages to come within that for the US series that ran from 1994 to 2004. The sitcom about six white singles in New York had already been transformed once into a range of make-up palettes, lipsticks and […]

New Zealand Fashion Week autumn–winter 2013, day four: theatrics and uniqueness

September 9, 2012/14.11

Nikita Brown/Nikita Brown Photography Matthew Beveridge/Matthew Beveridge Photography The last day of fashion week is always the quietest. However, things went off this year with a hiss and a roar with Phoenix Cosmetics’ Truly Outrageous showcase. This was a make-up show with a difference, with dance, music, theatrics, big drama, bigger hair and even bigger […]