Before the days of street style stars and streaming runway shows, Fashion Week was a whole different animal from the event we know today. In honor of New York Fashion Week’s kickoff today, we scouted vintage photos to show what’s changed about the collections — and what’s stayed the same.
More shows mean shorter windows for hair, makeup and manis. Luckily, beauty brands send teams of professionals to pull off beauty looks in record time.
Back in the days of brick-sized cell phones, only fancy folks — like Ivanka Trump, prepping to walk the Jill Stuart runway here — could chat on the go.
Backstage Stars Then: Kevyn Aucoin and Linda Evangelista Wendy Rodewald-Sulz
“Superstar makeup artist meets supermodel” is one of our favorite backstage moments to spy on. Here, Aucoin preps Evangelista for the Isaac Mizrahi runway in 1995.
In the age of Instagram, we can all see what the pros see, like in this supermodel-stacked selfie snapped by Pat McGrath at January’s Versace couture show. And the latest trend is new generation faces like Karlie Kloss mingling with ‘90s stars like Amber Valletta and Eva Herzigova.
Beauty rest was as hard to come by in 1953 as it is today. These models snuck in some shuteye behind the scenes at a Paris show by designer John Cavanagh.
