When Fantasy Meets Reality: hoW the RunWay and Red CaRpet inteRseCt The New Global STarS Team beauTy CaTCheS olympiC Fever FREE Abbie Cornish’s LAID-BACK SPIRITApproAch to StArdom A FAIRCHILD PUBLICATION When Fantasy Meets Reality: hoW the RunWay and Red CaRpet inteRseCt The New Global STarS Team beauTy CaTCheS olympiC Fever FREE Abbie Cornish’s LAID-BACK SPIRITApproAch to StArdom WWDBEAUTYBIZ CONTENTS 29 42 48 THIS MONTH: ABBIE CORNISH AND A COTERIE OF GLOBAL StaRS, StaNDOUT PRODUctS FROM REtaILERS WORLDWIDE AND THE BEST BEAUTY TRENDS FROM THE RUNWAY AND RED caRPET. 12 PeoPle, Places & liPsticks 24 World Wide Watch: 42 meet the locals Behind the scenes with Hollywood’s premier The united kingdom As beauty companies increase their international product tracker, germ-free application tips from Beauty-obsessed Brits are driving product sales scope, they’re looking to homegrown stars to makeup guru Mally Roncal and team beauty across the pond, eager to scoop up the latest help establish their credibility. Here, a report on goes to the Olympics. trends and hot items the instant they hit the celebrity marketing in a global marketplace. market. But with recession looming, will it last? 16 What’s in store 45 national Pride Tree-based summer scents, sunny citrus picks 29 Opposites attract Household names in their home countries, these and the melding of bronze and gold for sizzling While the runway and the red carpet share eight international stars are all gorgeous, famous warm weather makeup. many of the same inspirations and ideas, the — and still unsigned to a beauty contract. execution of each is as different as night and day. 22 Beauty chez you 48 star turn Leaving your house for a facial is so C-List. 36 ray of light From Tokyo to São Paulo, the hippest shopkeepers These days every starlet worth her spray tan has Australian golden girl Abbie Cornish on the tao around the globe divulge their picks for the season’s a grooming posse who makes house calls. of Hollywood and her impending Stateside fame. best beauty bets. 40 in retreat 50 dancing Queen For a relaxing and rejuvenating escape, Tinseltown’s Italian ballerina and aspiring actress Eleonora brightest head south of the border to the secluded Abbagnato shares her advice on dancing through spas of the Mayan Riviera. life in style. 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This companies were content to hitch themselves to the year, the Oscars neatly coincided with the fall 2008 biggest star around and ride their gilded coattails ready-to-wear shows in Paris. While there were California all the way to the cash register. But as every A-, overarching similarities in the hair and makeup B- and C-lister signed up to front a fragrance, a looks, the execution was thrillingly different. Take skin cream or the newest mascara, the magical X red lips for example, which, combined with an Dreaming factor often seemed to be missing. While sales of otherwise bare face, was a safe, solid choice on the celebrity products have stabilized, the influence red carpet this year. On the runway, however, lips of Hollywood on the national beauty psyche were bright cherry red and supershiny—and were hasn’t. Witness the all-encompassing coverage of paired with an equally strong eye. Toned down, the Oscars, with every single aspect of an actress’ it’s a fresh look for any aspiring starlet. Discover appearance analyzed and deconstructed, right more influential beauty trends from each side of down to her diamanté hair clip. the divide in “Opposites Attract” on page 29. While the hoi polloi look to Hollywood for Most notable about this year’s Oscars (other beauty inspiration, Hollywood looks to the runway than its sheer dreariness), was the fact that not one of the winners for best or supporting actor or actress was American. Two Brits, a French woman and a Spaniard took home the awards. Hollywood has gone global. This issue’s cover girl Abbie Cornish epitomizes the new breed of international actress in Tinseltown. Sure, she’s beautiful, with quintessential golden girl looks. But even more striking is her devotion to her craft and evasion of the glitzy trappings of stardom. Part of a coterie that includes rising stars like Brit Emily Blunt, Brazil’s Alice Braga and France’s Marion Cotillard, Cornish is conquering Hollywood on her own terms. Discover how in “Ray of Light” on page 36.