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Isamaya Ffrench: The Provocateur Building Beauty for the Music Generation
From face paint at art-school parties to creative direction at Byredo and her own label, a career that treats beauty imagery as culture, not polish.
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Beauty at AWH Magazine treats makeup and hair as authored work rather than product placement. Pieces credit the artists, name the references, and explain how a face was constructed for a show, a campaign or a portrait. Suited to readers interested in image-making, not only in what to purchase.
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The Glass Skin Decade: What K-Beauty Changed in the Editorial Face
A Korean ideal of translucent, hydrated skin crossed into Western magazines and quietly dismantled a century of matte.
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Pat McGrath, Gold at Versace, and the New Backstage Authority
The makeup artist who turned a gold-leafed face at Gianni Versace's 1996 show into a career of named, signed, billion-pound beauty authorship.
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Kabuki White: The Stage Logic Behind Runway Face Paint
White faces and coded colour on the runway are not fantasy — they borrow a working system built on the kabuki stage, where paint was dramaturgy.
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The Cupid's Bow Mouth: How the 1920s Drew the Lip
A small, dark, heart-shaped mouth became the decade's signature — the moment lipstick turned from cosmetics-counter afterthought into a modern gesture.
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Serge Lutens at Shiseido: Building a House Image From a Face
From 1980, one French image-maker taught a Japanese cosmetics house to speak in his own visual language — and beauty direction became authorship.