Tom Ford Does ‘Broken Lashes’ at His Show

I am faithful to wearing eyelash extensions, but before heading to Paris Fashion Week, I had no time to get a refill. So I’ve been walking around with barely there lashes. I felt naked for the first half of the week until I saw my sparse lashes mirrored back to me on Tom Ford Beauty’s mood board backstage ahead of their spring 2026 show. The board read, “dramatic broken lashes,” and the images showed eyelash extensions sparingly worn in between natural lashes coated with mascara. “You’re already on trend,” Lucy Bridge, the newly appointed global makeup artist for Tom Ford Beauty, said to me looking at my three-week-old extensions, I guess I’ll call them “broken” now. Bridge worked with Haider Ackermann on his Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture SS23 show, where they did a more dramatic version of these lashes. This season they wanted to bring it to Tom Ford for a striking beauty look against the clothes, but in a “less dramatic” way.

Juxtaposing the scattered lashes was an overly glossy lacquer lip. Last season, models wore deep-red lips with stained teeth — a “Dracula smooch” was the inspiration (Tom Ford is no stranger to a really good red lip). This season, glazed pink-and-red lips took over. They were an extension of the lacquer-coated runway; “lacquerlike lips” is what Bridge referred to them as. The lip combo was a layer of Tom Ford’s Beauty’s deep Scarlet Red lipstick with its satin-finish lip gloss in shade Disclosure for the models with a red lacquer lip. The lights bounced off the sheen of them similarly to how they bounced off the runway, adding even more edge to Ackermann’s second show with the house. Will I be layering on my lip products in drastic coats for a polished lacquer look like the models? Likely not. But my half-filled lashes becoming a runway moment definitely makes me feel better about layering mascara over my almost invisible lash extensions. It’s all about perspective.