Notes from Août

We’re keeping a small record of the things that have caught our attention lately. From something sparkling on an otherwise ordinary object to a bag that looks as though it...

A halo is light before it is anything else. A pale ring around the moon, a brightness that belongs to what it touches rather than calling attention to itself. It...

Every few years, beauty culture rediscovers the colour Brown and gives it a new name. There was the matte brown of the nineties, the bronze lids of the early 2000s,...

There is a particular brown that isn't merely brown, the one that arrives with its name already doing half the work. Maple. Say it and something in the eye softens,...

Infatuations is where we'll keep a record of those conversations. Not everything happening in beauty, only the handful we keep finding ourselves returning to. The things that feel less like...

A year, or a memory you cannot quite place. A close look at 1997, a warm pink-mauve shimmer that arrives with a feeling and stays long after the moment has...