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

  • From New MacBooks to iOS 16, All the Big Reveals From Apple's WWDC 2022 Keynote

  • Heaven by Marc Jacobs & Dr. Martens Do it Again, '90s Style

  • Homage Year's Egg-Cellent Ova Bag Just Dropped in New Colors

  • Flop of the Week: Kim Kardashian's New Job

  • Salvation Army Claps Back at Balenciaga's Paris Sneaker

  • Fashion Obscura: When Cicciolina, Porn Star-Turned-Politician, Went to Cannes

  • The Glow Up: Joyce Lee on the Beauty of Sexual Wellness

  • Christie's Is Auctioning Off the Holy Grail of Hermès Handbags

  • Hole-y Shit: Up Close & Personal With Balenciaga's Paris Sneaker

  • Byredo's Latest Byproduct: a Scented Lamp