{"id":296406,"date":"2026-02-17T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/296406\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T23:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:18:09","slug":"5-new-york-fashion-week-beauty-trends-to-watch-and-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/296406\/","title":{"rendered":"5 New York Fashion Week Beauty Trends to Watch (and Try)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the fall 2026 collections have walked the snowbanked runways of New York, many of our big beauty forecasts from last season<\/a> have gained new energy. Pastel lids were just as blue at Marc Jacobs\u2019s nostalgic kickoff to the week\u2019s shows, and soon fingertips and toes at Rachel Scott\u2019s Proenza Schouler show<\/a> were painted in an escapist shade of pale cerulean.<\/p>\n

The \u201cOlsen tuck<\/a>\u201d is suddenly in its fullest swing, this time on a starkly lit 7 for All Mankind runway; the label is in the hands of new creative director Nicola Brognano, who instantly appointed Chlo\u00eb Sevigny as brand ambassador<\/a>. The models Brognano sent down his catwalk were styled to slip right into a Smith\u2019s Sunday night at Sway with Sevigny\u2014a downtown spot known for its Olsen twin sightings, each It girl a perfect example of hair that really moves<\/a> to the beat.<\/p>\n

Thrilling are the hints of feminine power. Those clawlike acrylics of last season gave way to an entire vampy, gothy, witchy, femme fatale through-line on the runways. Hillary Taymour credited a \u201csoul-sucking mood\u201d for her Collina Strada show titled The World Is a Vampire<\/a>, and new Area creative director Nicholas Aburn told Vogue\u2019s Nicole Phelps<\/a> that \u201cglamour is a word that used to mean magic. When a woman used the way she looked for power, they said, \u2018Witch! Magic!\u2019 And that\u2019s how glamour came to mean mastery over the way you look.\u201d<\/p>\n

Below, five big New York Fashion Week trends from our Vogue Beauty forecast that are worth a closer look.<\/p>\n

Hair That Moves<\/p>\n

Just as we predicted for 2026 (and seen in the waterfall bangs Guido Palau attached to Jonathan Anderson\u2019s Dior couture collection last month<\/a>), hair artists captured every micro and macro movement on the runways. There were the woke-up-at-my-friend\u2019s wisps Anthony Turner<\/a> teased from scarves at 7 for All Mankind, the waist-length waves Diega Da Silva<\/a> brushed out for Ulla Johnson, and the fuzzy flyaways Orlando Pita<\/a> left floating for Michael Kors. Matt Benns<\/a> washed more than half of Eckhaus Latta\u2019s models\u2019 hair in a basin with Tresemm\u00e9 Amplified Volume shampoo<\/a>\u2014no conditioner\u2014for \u201csuperclean\u201d hair that\u2019s \u201cvery airy,\u201d he explained backstage. \u201cSo when it walks, it\u2019s just moving.\u201d<\/p>\n

Goth Stars<\/p>\n

Is beauty interpreting\u2014and reinterpreting\u2014our historical view of powerful women? Nail artist Sojin Oh<\/a>\u2019s XXL press-on nails gripped Kim Shui\u2019s collection like those of a fashion vampire headed straight to the front row of Taymour\u2019s Collina Strada runway. Widespread application of plummy blackberry pigments often arrived with gothic, femme fatale undertones: At Area, where Aburn made the link between glamorous women and witches, makeup artist Dick Page<\/a> painted lips in balmy blackberry shades from Milk Makeup. The combination of eerie rubber gloves and makeup artist Emi Kaneko\u2019s oxblood lip at Lii<\/a> seemed to embody the spirit of the main character of the 2013 sci-fi thriller Under the Skin. LVMH Prize semifinalist Zane Li<\/a> chatted with Vogue\u2019s Laird Borrelli-Persson about the inspiration he pulled from scenes where the film\u2019s main character, played by Scarlett Johansson, \u201ctries to trap a man.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deconstructed Details<\/p>\n

Imperfection and asymmetry continue to win in an AI-friendly era. At Collina Strada, hair artist Mustafa Yanaz<\/a> piled on giant deconstructed wigs and extensions teased with Bumble & Bumble texture mists. Dick Page<\/a> left models\u2019 skin at Michael Kors so un-glammed that visible undereye circles appeared truly angelic. For Proenza Schouler, makeup artist Thomas de Kluyver<\/a> took \u201celements of a classic makeup look and deconstructed them,\u201d he told Vogue\u2019s Kiana Murden<\/a> backstage of using Byredo lipsticks and liners to create asymmetrical lip and eye gestures that \u201cslightly distort the face.\u201d This fits with what Scott told Phelps<\/a> of a feeling that Proenza exuded for her before being appointed as creative director: \u201cThere was this glass between you and this woman that you\u2019d see, and she was impeccable. She was super perfect. And that idea of perfection is a little bit scary for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Updo Overdrive<\/p>\n

We saw updos begin their return to the runways last season, and this season the style was swept up to even more impressive heights. At Anna Sui, hairstylist Garren<\/a> utilized his own R+Co BLEU products to create mini bouffants (that still stood several inches high!) to capture \u201cthe punk turned New Romantic wave at the Blitz nightclub in London\u201d scene he gleaned from discussions with the designer. For Diotima, hairstylist Joey George<\/a> created what he coined \u201cthe bedroom twist,\u201d a highly lacquered double French twist (with a yet-to-launch Oribe product), as a play on Rachel Scott\u2019s theme of eroticism. \u201cRachel really loves not only a sexy woman, but someone who is quite strong,\u201d George told Murden backstage. \u201cAnd strength is quite sexy, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

A Blue Attitude<\/p>\n

Blue is a feeling these days; blue is a mood. On the first runway of NYFW, Thomas de Kluyver<\/a> swept lids at Marc Jacobs with frosty blue shadow from lash to brow. Designer-darling nail artist Jin Soon Choi<\/a> topped fingers and toes at Proenza Schouler with a hazy cerulean polish named Sea Clay<\/a> from her eponymous line. At Eckhaus Latta, makeup artist Fara Homidi<\/a> debuted an eye palette with a wash of sheer blue shadow that she buffed onto a few models\u2019 lids in \u201ca muddled sort of shape\u2014it\u2019s a sort of a careless blue eye,\u201d she told me backstage. It\u2019s a \u201cwearable\u201d way to try the hue, she says, and can indeed be smudged on with bare fingers, \u201cwhich is really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

Have a beauty or wellness trend you\u2019re curious about? We want to know! Send\u00a0Vogue\u2019s senior beauty and wellness editor an email at\u00a0beauty@vogue.com.<\/p>\n