“I do love pretty clothes,” Estée was the first to admit. Her love of couture created long-lasting relationships with designers such as Hubert de Givenchy, Valentino Garavani, and Bill Blass, and she attended their shows each season. There, she picked up style pointers, as well as beauty ideas. At an Emanuel Ungaro show, she was mesmerized by a model that wore “the most exquisite shade of ruby red shadow on her lids. It looked stunning,” she’d recall. “I couldn’t wait to get home to experiment until I found exactly that color for our own shadows.”

“I do love pretty clothes,” Estée was the first to admit. Her love of couture created long-lasting relationships with designers such as Hubert de Givenchy, Valentino Garavani, and Bill Blass, and she attended their shows each season. There, she picked up style pointers, as well as beauty ideas. At an Emanuel Ungaro show, she was mesmerized by a model that wore “the most exquisite shade of ruby red shadow on her lids. It looked stunning,” she’d recall. “I couldn’t wait to get home to experiment until I found exactly that color for our own shadows.”