beauty collaboration

'Tis the time for giving, and let the latest collaboration from Kiehl's be at the top of your shopping list. This year, the iconic brand has teamed up with pop surrealist Kenny Scharf to donate USD $200,000 to children's charities worldwide. Scharf created a new work called "Globo Mundo" for the project, which he described as "representing the whole world or globe; inspired by Kiehl's, its patrons, and their work in communities around the world."

In the past, Kiehl's has collaborated with artistic stars like Jeff Koons and Brian Donnelly to outfit its Creme de Corps collection for charity. And this year the collection has Scharf's legendary comic imagery flair. Every vanity deserves a piece of this pop art, especially with such a worthy cause attached.

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Pop art meets makeup artists with Nars's collaboration for the holidays. Having always been inspired by pop art and the swinging '60s, François Nars has partnered with the Andy Warhol Foundation For the Visual Arts in the foundation's largest collaboration to date. Nars is releasing two makeup collections that channel Warhol's iconic art as part of its holiday line. "I have always surrounded myself with Andy's work and even paid tribute to him in past collections," Nars told WWD, referring to his Edie eye shadow, Chelsea Girls lip lacquer, and others. "This just seemed like the right time to do [a bigger effort]."

The two collections represent two distinct aspects of Warhol's career: his pop art phase and his Factory phase. The first collection, aptly named Pop, will be released exclusively at Sephora in the US starting October 1, and exclusively from Mecca Cosmetica in Australia from October 14. Pop contains products inspired by Warhol's most iconic works, with bright, punchy colours. The Debbie Harry Cheek and Eye Palette is an ode to Warhol's paintings of the Blondie front woman; a lip gloss coffret is embellished with Warhol's famous lip print.

The Silver Factory set, on the other hand, is meant to evoke the essence of Warhol's Factory days, the collection contains products named after various moments and faces of the Factory. A stand out item is the Edie set, a film canister with the face of Edie Sedgwick peering up from the cover, which contains everything from eye shadow to lipstick.

Sass & bide designers Heidi Middleton and Sarah-Jane Clarke have teamed up with celebrity hairstylist Renya Xydis for their show at London Fashion Week 2012 next month. This exciting collaboration will see Renya, who's worked with Cate Blanchett, Eva Mendes, Miranda Kerr and Mary-Kate Olsen to name a few, using Cloud Nine tools exclusively for sass & bide, to create directional hair looks that'll complement the collection. It's pretty much like a match made in hair heaven — we've admired Renya's work for years (check out the braid she did in Sarah-Jane's hair at the Myer Spring/Summer 2013 Collection), we're all crazy for sass & bide, and Cloud Nine is one of the strongest brands in the market. It's pretty safe to say that we'll be seeing some amazing stuff strutting down the catwalk come September, and we can't wait!

Well, this is exciting. Topshop is known for cool fashion collaborations (we're looking at you, Mossy), but we're particularly excited about their new fashion and makeup offering from one of London's coolest emerging designers, Louise Gray. Available later this month at Topshop in Melbourne and in Sydney come October, the line is bright and playful — just what we need to head into Spring! Think glitter pots and fluro eye colours.

"My idea behind the collaboration was to design for the Topshop girl a range that was young and fun, similar to both the fashion and make up I wear already. My mainline collections have always been about pushing optimism, colour and fun, I want her to experiment with the product, be daring and have fun with it," says Louise.