Laura Regensdorf
Beauty Director
Laura Regensdorf is the beauty director at Vanity Fair, with an eye to the wellness boom, emerging brands, and personalities across stage and screen. Previously an editor at Vogue and Elle Decor, she also writes about music, art, and dance. Laura lives in Brooklyn. You can follow her on Instagram.
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In Collina Strada’s Butterfly-Sprite World, the Medium Is the Message
The spring 2023 show, held inside a monarch butterfly sanctuary in Brooklyn, gathered an ethereal cast—Hari Nef, Jemima Kirke, Ella Emhoff—in support of the brand’s colorful, climate-minded vision. “You get lost in Collina land,” the musician Oyinda said backstage, describing a sense of spiritual refuge. “I mean, it’s the whole point.”Grace Jones on “Hippie Acid Love” and the Rain-Soaked Scents of Jamaica
The legendary performer-provocateur has teamed up with Boy Smells on a new candle inspired by her mother country. Ahead of this week’s launch party, she talks up good butts, Beyoncé, and Antonio Lopez–era makeup.For La Bouche Rouge, the Road to Sustainability Begins With Desire
When the French beauty company launched its leather-wrapped, refillable lipstick cases nearly five years ago, it offered a keepsake alternative to disposable goods. Now, a push for plastic-free packaging takes its waste-not mission a step further.Cate Le Bon Is a Slippery Tour Guide Through Time and Space
With an uncanny lyricism and synth-heavy tracks, the Welsh musician’s sixth album, Pompeii, grazes themes of disaster and renewal, in a soundscape wholly her own.Barnabé Fillion’s Synesthesia-Inspired Perfume Project, Arpa, Is a Melodic Escape
A longtime collaborator with Aesop and such artists as Anicka Yi, the French native enlists a like-minded network to shape the world of Arpa, where sculpture and music commingle with scent.In the Age of Quarantine, the World Dances Alone Together
With fitness studios shuttered and ballet companies on pause, the surge of movement-oriented livestreams underscores the dance community’s most crucial move: pivot to video.The Wisdom of Lucy Dacus, Body and Soul
The singer-songwriter, now on the road for her third album Home Video, reflects on the slipperiness of memory and her return to the stage.The New Hermès Nail Collection Is an Object Lesson in Craft and Color
A year and a half after launching an impeccable line of lipsticks, the French house extends its finesse to the fingertips.How Buzz Cuts Became the Viral Hit of a Lonely Spring
From Netflix’s Unorthodox to Pete Buttigieg’s newly shorn head, the shortest hairstyle is ubiquitous. Call it low-pile therapy for our high-anxiety age.Can a New Perfume Rekindle Eroticism? A Proposition for 2022
The start to the year is an apt time to stir the senses. Louis Vuitton’s Spell on You fragrance—ultra-feminine, even if treated like cosplay—is a heady place to start.Bowen Yang Stays Afloat with Fancy Baths and SOPHIE on Repeat
The Saturday Night Live cast member chronicles the show’s 2021 return in this wellness diary, where Fran Lebowitz impressions are balanced out with throat-chakra alignment.After the Year of No Bras, Things Are Looking Up
When the shutdown left us stranded at home, some women clamored for a tangible sense of freedom. A year later, one writer reassesses the bra with help from an O.G. expert, an Instagram-savvy start-up, and Seinfeld.
