Tory Burch’s Beauty Line Is Just Too Darn Pretty

Tory Burch has officially made her leap into the beauty world — and from the looks of her first makeup, body, and fragrance creations, we're predicting a major hit. As she told WWD in an exclusive feature debuting today, Burch admits that she was inspired by the people closest to her while designing the collection — her family. While developing her eponymous fragrance, for example, she started with a single note — vetiver — that was beloved both by her brothers and by her late father, and used the note as a jumping-off point in developing a sexy-tomboy fragrance that would eventually include notes of pink pepper, neroli, and tuberose.

When it came to the development of her color cosmetics capsule collection — a simple selection of nude lipstick, a cheek and lip tint, a bronzing palette, and a retractable face brush, Burch incorporated both her father's witticisms (the lipstick's name, "Pas du Tout," was a favorite phrase of his) and her mother's pared-down chic approach to beauty. Says the designer: "Less is more. My mom, who’s in her late 70s, when she doesn’t wear makeup or just a little bit, she looks so beautiful.”