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

  • Keeping Up With Dressgate (Kim Kardashian's Met Gala Look)

  • The Glow Up: OkaySophi's Fundamental Foundations

  • City Council Member Chi Ossé Brought Bed-Stuy to His Met Gala Debut

  • Sky Ferreira? At the Met Gala? Indie Sleaze Is About to Go High Fashion

  • Debunking Fragrance in Skincare Myths With Dr. Z

  • Kering's Investment in Lab-Grown Leather Could Quash the Real vs. Faux Debate

  • Move Aside, Red Bull — Jeremy Scott & adidas Give You Wings

  • So, Rihanna Ended Up Going to the Met Gala (Sort Of)

  • Christopher Kane Unpacks the Gilded Glamour of Tommy Dorfman's Met Gala Gown

  • Alicia Keys, Former #NoMakeup Queen, Will Debut a Makeup Line at the Met Gala

  • Run, Don't Walk — the Entire 'Selling Sunset' Soundtrack Is on Spotify