Street Style Star Eva Geraldine Fontanelli Shares Her Milan Beauty Black Book

A rising star on street style blogs, Milan-based Eva Geraldine Fontanelli is as recognizable for her signature beauty look—cropped, face-framing waves and glowing skin—as she is for her colorful style. The half-French, half-Italian stylist, who launches a six-piece knitwear collaboration today with Stefanel, has a theory on why Italians look so good: “They like to cook.” She has a point: The healthy Mediterranean glow is as much about nourishing what’s on the inside as maintaining the outside. Growing up in the Florentine countryside, Fontanelli was taught such tricks by her grandmother as boiling sage leaves to create an anti-inflammatory drink; now she concocts her own body scrubs using honey and sugar, and relies on yoga and juice to help maintain her dewy complexion.

Here, with Milan Fashion Week in full swing, Fontanelli shares a list of her favorite beauty destinations in the Italian fashion capital.

Healthy Snack Stops
Though visitors often lament the lack of healthy dining options in Milan, they do exist, if you know where to look. Fontanelli recommends Mantra Raw for its restaurant and juice bar as well as its extensive selection of hard-to-find products like water-purifying charcoal strips. She stocks up on gourmet groceries from Eataly (they deliver), which she also loves for its selection of shampoos and other beauty products.

Spas
Fontanelli is a regular at Comfort Zone spa in her neighborhood of Cinque Vie, the city’s historic quarter named for the five-way intersection at its center. Her go-to treatments: the Glorious Skin Express facial and Sacred Nature massage.

On-Demand Massage
For time-pressed editors in need of some R&R, Fontanelli recommends a site called Call Me Spa, which allows users to book in-home or in-hotel massages (and, unusual for this city, they’re available as late as 11:00 p.m.). Uniformed staff members show up with massage beds, candles, and even music to re-create the ambiance of a treatment room.

Yoga
Fontanelli is a regular at Hohm Street Yoga center, a favorite of the city’s fashion set, where she often opts for the Street Vinyasa class—with its less-contemplative, more cardio-focused sequences. She has also recently been experimenting with antigravity yoga at the Virgin Active gym in Corso Como.

Hair
Fontanelli’s signature crop is maintained by Stefano Terzuolo—said by the style set to be the best hairdresser in the city—at his popular Gum salon in the Porta Ticinese neighborhood. There, she stocks up on his two-in-one Gum Grooming Hold Cream, which works as both a body lotion and hair-smoothing product. “Time is an issue for me,” she explains.

Nails
Fontanelli favors the early evening hour at Bahama Mama, where fashion-industry clients sip aperitifs as they wait for their nails to dry. (It’s also a favorite shopping haunt: Proprietor Gaia Venuti is a part-time vintage dealer, and her finds are sold in a corner of the salon.) Another manicure mainstay is Violette, whose owner, Helena Komarova, is a makeup artist who assisted Pat McGrath for many years.

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