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Mid-October in New York City is often filled with gloomy gray days, and the Financial District—the Big Apple’s steely home for big business, bougie briefcases, and skyscrapers—tends to be a pretty colorless place. But at 11 a.m. on Oct. 18, 2026, in a sleek, subterranean space a stone’s throw from where Succession filmed its exterior shots,…

What’s better than one 30th birthday celebration? Two, duh. After a day filled with masterclasses, mingling, injectable appointments, and top-tier goodie bags at Allure’s Best of Beauty Live, the team did it all again for a nighttime session at Halo Twenty Eight in Manhattan’s Financial District.

The time was October, 1996. The Yankees were about to win the World Series, Bill Clinton was on his way to a decisive reelection victory, and, even more consequentially, Chanel Vamp was the nail polish color du jour. It was also the date we published our very first Allure Best of Beauty awards. The notion…