Allure Backstage
Director & Executive Producer, Reporter KAREN MORRISON
Allure Backstage was an award-winning television series created, directed, and executive produced by Karen Morrison and produced by MODTV. The pioneering television series was hosted by Allure Founding Editor Linda Wells and aired on E! Entertainment TV, Style Network, and BravoTV, delivering exclusive backstage access to the season’s top beauty trends and runway shows and aired from 2001 – 2009.
Originally developed as a video extension of Allure’s bi-annual Backstage Beauty trend report, the television specials brought the magazine’s—and Linda Wells’—editorial voice to life on screen, featuring interviews with designers, models, hairstylists, and makeup artists at Fashion Weeks in New York, Milan, and Paris.
In 2009, as the digital era began, Morrison transformed Allure Backstage into short-form video series, Allure Backstage The Look Of produced and edited in real time from global Fashion Weeks. Instrumental in helping grow the magazine’s newly relaunched website at Allure.Com, the series were widely syndicated across platforms including Allure’s YouTube Channel, Facebook, and Apple Podcasts, and went on to win numerous awards. Allure Backstage series received a Honorary Webby for Online Film & Video in 2012 and also in 2014.
Allure Backstage television specials were hosted by Linda Wells, the founding editor of Allure magazine and Directed, and Executive Produced by Karen Morrison. The pioneering beauty series was produced by MODTV and aired on E! Entertainment TV, Style Network, and BravoTV, delivering exclusive backstage access to the season’s top beauty trends and runway shows.
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Originally developed by Karen Morrison as a video extension of Allure’s bi-annual Backstage Beauty trend report, the Allure television specials brought the magazine’s—and Linda Wells’—editorial voice to life on screen, featuring interviews with designers, models, hairstylists, and makeup artists at Fashion Weeks in New York, Milan, and Paris.
In 2009, as the digital era began, Morrison transformed Allure Backstage into short-form video series produced and edited in real time from global Fashion Weeks.
The series played a key role in growing Allure’s website Allure.Com, and was syndicated across platforms including YouTube, Facebook, and Apple Podcasts. went on to win numerous awards, including an Honorary Webby.
