Lauder's Heritage

A COLLECTION OF VINTAGE INSPIRATIONS

BEAUTY

or those who were deprived of a grandmother's vanity, stocked with gold-encased lipsticks and proper metal compacts that snap with an old-fashioned, satisfying click, comes Estée Lauder's limited-edition Heritage Collection. A tribute to Madame Estee herself, the concept was pieced together from granddaughter Aerin Lauder's memories of the beauty icon. "Estee always kept her makeup on a vanity. There's something so wonderful about that—it's the whole inspiration for the collection, designed in the colors that she lived in. Whether it was her clothes, her home, her china, or her jewelry, there was always navy, gold, and white, a core part of the original

brand that was founded in 1946." Estee's navy Givenchy coats, enameled gold and navy David Webb jewelry, and 60s and 70s product designs from the company archives act as muses for the spirit of the line: a mix of deliciously packaged sets of vintagederived, dresser-worthy compacts and accessories, reissued lipstick colors, and clever incarnations of Estee's favorite scent, White Linen. Nostalgic touches such as the gold-plated boar-bristle hairbrush reference a bygone era of handmade cosmetics and careful packaging. The collection includes everything from the resurrected lipsticks, in colors like Bermuda Bronze and Civilized Rose, to the tiny set of White Linen-scented guest soaps wrapped in shiny paper boxes that open like delicate little drawers and are covered in a navy-and-white knot print—used for a one-off E.L. gift set in the 70s— designed to resemble the nautical fabrics Estee draped inside her houses on Cap-Ferrat and Long Island. If the look was good enough for Estee, well, it's good enough for us. -ALEXA BRAZILIAN

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ALEXA BRAZILIAN