Alexandra Pauly

(Beauty Editor / New York)

Alexandra Pauly is a writer and editor with over four years of experience telling stories about beauty, style, and youth culture. She was appointed Beauty Editor after launching Highsnobiety's beauty vertical, its very first foray into the category, in 2022.

Digging into beauty and its intersection with culture, identity, and politics, her reporting challenges readers to think critically about the industry and their own relationship to it. A longtime fragrance enthusiast, she is also passionate about writing about scent. In 2023, she spearheaded Highsnobiety's State of Fragrance, a whitepaper on consumers' relationship to perfume and their buying habits.

Outside of work, you can find her scouring Chinatown for the best egg tart, contemplating the next addition to her collection of 50-plus perfumes, and taking way too many photos of her dog.

Articles

  • A MSCHF Exhibition Promises Pranks at Perrotin

  • Giddy Up! Isamaya Ffrench's New Makeup Collection Is a Wild Ride

  • Top Shelf: The Best Beauty Drops of October

  • Would You Still Love Heidi Klum If She Was a Worm?

  • Maison Francis Kurkdjian Turned Baccarat Rouge 540 Into a 24K Gold Body Oil

  • Celebs Upped the Ante With Next-Level Halloween Costumes

  • 'The White Lotus' Season 2 Theme Song Is an Unexpected Banger

  • Halloween Costumes That Shouldn't Exist: 2022 Edition

  • For Halloween, Saint Laurent Does Bones & Bugs

  • It's Official: Miu Miu's Ballet Flats Are Fashion's Hottest Product

  • Addison Rae Has Entered the Street Style Chat

  • For His Birthday, Frank Ocean Gifted Us Two New Homer Drops