Beauty director Adriana Ermter breaks down fall’s biggest beauty trends. Get the lowdown on ’80s redux, mile-high pompadours, glam curls and more. There’s lots more packed into our Fall Beauty Guide: 5 ways to wear a crimson lip, runway-tested products, and the top hair and makeup on the catwalk. Videos after the jump. Fall makeup [...]

This season, the archetypal red lip is exceedingly versatile. In many textural permutations, from matte to gloss, each crimson hue reflects a different undertone—be it berry, black, blue, orange or fuchsia. After its display of cosmetic dominance on the Fall 2009 runways, there’s no sidestepping this principal shade. Rouge is the right choice. After the [...]

Some of us in the office are mourning the end of summer (if indeed it ever arrived), but this reporter is always quite happy to welcome the nip in the air that accompanies the end of the silly season. After the jump, we round up our picks for the best fall jackets to buy right [...]

Fashion market editor Sarah Casselman goes shopping for five pieces that will give your closet an instant update. Video after the jump.

Fall 2009 runways were awash with colour-blocked eyes and Duran Duran hair, rocketing us Marty McFly–style back to the future, circa 1985. Why? Because everything ’80s is new again. Lipstick is bright, bold and iridescent. Fragrance is intoxicatingly opulent, steeped in history. And counterculture strolls down memory lane, redefining drugstore cool. Top lip, from left: [...]

Though we’ve long loved Renata Morales (renatamorales.com), the Montreal designer came screaming back into our consciousness last October with her Spring 2009 show–full of ethereal dresses made of candy floss and the feathers of imaginary birds (we assume). The frocks in Morales’ Fall 2009 collection were inspired macro photographs of moths and rendered with feathers, [...]

Photographer Gabor Jurina–one of FASHION’s BFFs–went to yesterday’s Chanel couture show and sent us this report. Check out his work at gaborjurina.com (or in the Summer issue of FASHION) and his blog at gaborgeous.com. Last evening’s Fall 2009 couture presentation from Chanel was the perfect combination of French luxury with German precision. Kaiser Karl pulled [...]

Gallery Page and Strange (1869 Granville St., 902-422-8995, pageandstrange.com), located in Halifax’s historic Granville Mall, houses the best walls in the city. Encompassed by the sleek columns, stunning molding and sky-kissing ceilings of a bygone era, the building’s old brick walls have been slathered in a fresh, modern white that would make any artist salivate. [...]