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Carolyn & Dylan Murphy

"Since I was a little bit younger than Dylan, every Sunday was beauty day: my mom and I would do masks, and we would do our nails..."Read more >

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Leigh Lezark, DJ

"I hate leaving everything in the bathroom, so I keep most things in my bedroom and store backups in my bathroom.Read more >

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Daphné Hezard, Editor in Chief, L'Officiel

“I’m the editor-in-chief of L’Officiel, but the writing editor, not the fashion editor.Read more >

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Élodie Bouchez, Actress

“For a long time, I felt like I didn’t want any artifice because I always liked, even in my work, the idea that people really see me and really see what I propose as a person and as an actress.Read more >

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Patrick Bateman, Investment Banker

“I live in the American Gardens Building on West 81st Street, on the eleventh floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm twenty-seven years old.Read more >

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Jessica Noghes-Menio, Student

“I love decorating places, just creating scenes. In my parents’ house, they used to have mirrors all around the bathroom, and I thought that was quite nice.Read more >

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Gucci Westman, Makeup Artist

“My beauty routine is based more around skincare. I like to alternate a lot with various scrubs and serums and creams, so I use different ones throughout the week.Read more >

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Yi Zhou, Artist

“I do sculptures and film; my speciality is 3-D animations.Read more >

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Aurélie Bidermann, Jewelry Designer

“I’m French, from Paris. I have a guru, a skincare person—her name is Joëlle Ciocco.Read more >

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Michelle Violy Harper, Brand Consultant

“My grandmother always said, and she reminded me when I got engaged, ‘Make sure when you get your apartment, it has two bathrooms.Read more >

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Kerry Diamond, PR Exec & Restaurateur

“I’ve spent much of my career in beauty, which I fell into by mistake, but I think it was destiny at work because I was always obsessed with makeup and makeup artists and models, etc.Read more >

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Iris Apfel

"Getting older ain’t for sissies, I’ll tell you. It’s very funny. I have a dear friend whose mother’s gone, but she was very funny.Read more >

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Marina Muñoz, Stylist

“I’m from Buenos Aires in Argentina. I would say I’m very ‘tomboy’.Read more >

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Alexandra Golovanoff, Journalist & TV Host

I have been doing the French fashion channel for maybe seven or eight years. My father is Russian, but my mother is half eastern European—Romanian—and half French.Read more >

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Charlotte Ronson, Designer

“I’ve been living in New York since I was five; when we moved here we lived on the Upper West Side.Read more >

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My Skin Care: December 2011

Inez van Lamsweerde recently said something that got me thinking about all of the lotions and potions that I’ve been slathering on my face as of late.Read more >

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Jane Larkworthy, Beauty Director, W

“I was never really a beauty junkie, but it’s just those chromosomes that make you walk into a magazine’s beauty closet and think, ‘Oh my God, that is a wall of shampoo.Read more >

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Inez van Lamsweerde, Photographer

“I’m very involved on a shoot with the decisions about hair and makeup. I don’t just wait until the model comes out, ready—it’s too much fun!Read more >

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Kate Young, Stylist

“I think that I try to be as organic as possible.Read more >

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Léa Seydoux, Actress

“I am French—I’m from Paris, I grew up in Paris. It’s true that French are not very sophisticated in the sense that they don’t dress up for dinners.Read more >

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Coco Rocha, Model

“My beauty closet is actually the first thing I made in my house. I like my makeup—I like anything and everything, the more the better.Read more >

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Nicola Formichetti

"I’m such a nomad, and I always stay in hotel rooms…I kind of live in these very beautiful, but very generic hotels.Read more >

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Gia Coppola, Director

"I love products. I’m trying to take it easy, because I can get crazy, and then my boyfriend is like, ‘This is too much!Read more >