WWD spot-checks the system.

In this largely uncharted era of “see-it-buy-it-wear-it,” in which some runway fashion is immediately available for consumer purchase, WWD is spot-checking the system. Here’s the first dispatch, today about shopping Tom Ford, online and in-store.

Fusing color cosmetics and skin care, the ever-evolving hybrid category is redefining theway a new generation of consumers thinks about beauty.

Rounding up the Web’s most stylish visionaries:The lowdown on 12 bookmark-worthy blogs andsites that put trend analysis at your fingertips.

The superstar hairstylist has had a storied career, sought after by the world’s leading photographers, fashion designers and most famous women alike.

Art Ortenberg pens tome in honor of his late wife, the fashion icon Liz Claiborne.

As a new decade dawns, so, too, does a new beauty sensibility, one that celebrates a bold, strong, powerful vision of femininity.

Behind the scenes at Chateau the Art of Beauty, the New Jersey salon that’s become the star of Bravo’s most talked-about TV show.

NEW YORK — In an extreme example of counter-intuitive beauty marketing, a Costa Mesa-based skin care concern is recommending clients bake under an ultrahigh-beam light box aimed directly at their faces. And here’s the even wackier part:…

Radiant Red, John Frieda Professional Hair Care’s new color-protective line, is giving fiery types a permanent home in the spotlight.

NEW YORK — Talk about dumb luck. When the marketing team behind the indie skin care brand NuGlow cast Nicollette Sheridan as its spokesperson two years ago, little did they know they’d have a Desperate Housewife on their hands. Prior to…

NEW YORK — Anyone who doubts the clout of “celebrity facialists” hasn’t met Cornelia Zicu. The petite blonde dynamo, all penetrating gazes and measured tones, is about to make her bid for beauty fame in a big way. With a…

NEW YORK — Aveda Concept Salon and Spa owners just got a little richer. And if they happen to have their own Web sites, they’ve pretty much hit the jackpot.

In a move that benefits its 2,500 Concept Salon and Spa partners in two…

NEW YORK — Thanks to a little green giant called Fructis, Garnier is growing like gangbusters in the U.S.

At a fruit-filled press event held at L’Oréal’s corporate technical center this week, Maybelline New York-Garnier…

NEW YORK — He’s officially not in Kansas anymore.

This week, Maybelline New York announced it has signed Troy Surratt as its consulting makeup artist, a newly created position. The multiyear deal, which is global in scope, will…