Fashion Boston - April 2009

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4 FB LOVES A ringing endorsement for spring; Hermès ties one on for The Party in the Park; Carmen Marc Valvo hits Boston; and more.

6 HOT ITEM Our antidote to winter’s prolonged sulk: A joyfully surrealist investment piece from Christian Dior.

10-12 SPRING GLEAMING Our editors choose their 25 favorite beauty resources around town: makeup gurus, hair colorists and stylists, spa treatments, and miracle products that actually work.

13 FASHION OUTSIDER One little hair dryer really can change your hair. And, it turns out, maybe even your outlook.

PHOTO B Y BEBETO MAT THE WS/ASSOCIATED PRESS

EDITOR’S LETTER

Pretty is as Pretty Does

Outer beauty: Who doesn’t crave it, especially at this time of year? That’s why we’ve committed this, our annual Beauty Issue, to the easiest ways of achieving it. This month’s big feature cuts to the chase, spilling our favorite 25 go-to beauty resources in the city. Everything and everyone you need to look incredible is in here: skin experts, masseuses, hair colorists and stylists, body scrubbers, and lash experts.

There’s no question our world needs exterior beauty — on people, in parks, museums, restaurants, on stages and sidewalks — essentially, in as many places as possible.

But on the other hand, if it turns out that when the going gets tough, all we want to do is look good, then we won’t have very much to be proud of.

Now more than ever, I’m taken with a different kind of beauty — the kind displayed by people taking unprecedented steps in brave ways to support each other as a community. I’m talking about the employees of Beth Israel Hospital (as opposed to certain major financial companies that shall remain nameless), who sacrificed money and perks so that their colleagues could keep their jobs. And I’m talking about big fashion names like Carmen Marc Valvo, who chose not to show this season in New York City, and instead to team up with a Massachusetts organization that’s desperately needed by women: Ovations for the Cure, which is committed to raising awareness of ovarian cancer.

On May 2, Valvo’s designs will take Boston by storm with a runway benefit show at the Liberty Hotel (buy tickets at ovationsforthecure.org), and this magazine will be the print media sponsor. We’re proud of that for two big reasons: first, because the event will do lots to help women take care of themselves at a time when funds are badly needed; second, it will have brought a show as great as Valvo’s is known to be within our city limits.

I loved creating this year’s Beauty Issue — certainly because sharing our staff’s beauty secrets means there will be more beauty around town, but also because it prompted me to remember something my beloved grandmother (a former artist and one-timemodel) has always advised: “Look in the mirror, know that you look as good as you can, and then forget about it.” In other words, get yourself gorgeous, then get yourself out there and be the best version of a human being you know how. Never has that been more necessary than right now. — ALEXANDRA HALL

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CREATIVE DIREC TOR Lucy Bartholomay
EDITOR Alexandra Hall, ahall@globe.com
ART DIRECTOR Chin Wang
SALES DIRECTORS Donna Rice,
Elizabeth Sucher
PROMOTION Lisa Baker
PROJECT DIRECTOR Thomas F.X. Cole
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TO ADVER TISE Call Elizabeth Sucher
at 617-929-8641, esucher@globe.com

EDI TORIAL CONTRIBU TORS

Lisa Pierpont, Beth Teitell, Lane Turner,

Sadie Dayton, Jesse Burke, Michael Blanding, Molly Jane Quinn, Julie Paquette, Callista Wilson, Lysa Pelletier, Marci Duarte, Keri Callahan, Barye Lane Hall, Michael Trotman, Joel Benjamin, Shanique Durham, Danielle Ossher

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