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Behind The Brand: By Terry

Founder: Terry de Gunzburg

History: By Terry is the creation of Terry de Gunzburg, a world renowned makeup artist who began her career in 1975. It all started when Terry developed an interest in makeup and decided to take a course with beauty gurus Maria and Rosy Carita, the sister act behind the famed Carita salon on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. What followed was a career as a makeup artist, working with top photographers like David Bailey and Helmut Newton. She was even the creative director of YSL Beauté and was the mastermind behind the brand's famous Touche Éclat. She is also responsible for one of my favourite beauty buzzwords, glow. As Terry herself puts it, "I invented the word ‘glow’ in this industry. It sounds ridiculous but it’s true. I always believed even when I was a makeup artists that glow is much more interesting than perfection. My focus was to get the glow".

After over 20 years of working in the beauty industry, Terry used her knowledge and talent to create her own beauty brand, By Terry, in 1998.

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Thanks to Terry de Gunzburg – the make-up guru – my wedding day morning became one of those fairy-tale duckling-to-swan moments. Ignoring my mother’s words of wisdom, I stayed up way past midnight and woke up looking puffy-eyed and jowly-jawed. The night before, Diane von Furstenberg had given us an unbelievable party – drinks in the communal gardens followed by a buffet dinner at her sumptuous apartment – and when surrounded by family and friends, beauty sleep seemed utterly irrelevant until faced by my appearance the next morning... Major help was needed and major help came via Terry.

Proving that fairy godmothers can be super glam as well as kind – the Cairo-born Terry reminds me of Cleopatra though I doubt that the great queen possessed Terry’s pearly teeth and perfect smile – I suddenly glowed with natural looking apricot loveliness. That was 1997. Terry was then famous for creating YSL’s ‘touche éclat', performing her hocus pocus at Yves Saint Laurent’s fashion shows and working with fabled photographers Guy Bourdin, Sarah Moon and Helmut Newton. Many w

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I’m a compulsive hoarder,” confesses Terry de Gunzburg. Nothing can quell the irrepressible delight this queen of cosmetics derives from hunting down vintage plates or ordering household linen.

The cupboards in her Paris home in the Auteuil neighbourhood - two houses combined, linked by a covered terrace and decorated by the interior designer Jacques Grange - are bursting with fine glasses and plates.

The room at the bottom of the garden where she stores furniture is also overflowing with nineteenth-century barbotine slipware and porcelain services (two hundred and fifty in all, she has counted them), made to commission or hunted down on her travels. Her passion for rare pieces has prompted her not only to rotate the furniture and objects in her living spaces, many of them from the gallerist Pierre Passebon, but also to open a cabinet of curiosities dedicated to the arts of the table, just a stone’s throw from her cosmetics and perfume boutique in the historic Galerie Véro-Dodat shopping arcade.

MAY WE SUGGEST:At home in the French countryside with Cathe