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Catherine Malandrino's Escapism at Fashion Week
While the beauty look at the Catherine Malandrino Fall 2009 fashion show isn’t what you’d want to whip up for a Saturday night, the inspiration behind it is, well, inspirational.
“Her clothes this season are based on the Surrealist movement,” explains makeup artist Tom Pecheux. It was an era of escapism, fantasy, optimism, newness and the unexpected, and while we are all caught up in our own economic meltdown, this show was about escaping to a more beautiful, fantasy place.
“The makeup is a modern interpretation of the optical effects of a Man Ray photograph,” says Pecheux who used MAC cosmetics.
The liner isn’t on her lashlines, but in her crease, giving her eye a different dimension. Her hair was also otherworldly. “I colored 90 extensions to create this unexpected mix of hair colors. For blondes, I used shades of platinum, champagne, mint and lavender.
“For brunettes, I mixed a cool violet with warm caramel,” says hair colorist Eva Scrivo who worked with Wella haircolor. Hairstylist Odile Gilbert created a chignon that could reside at the MOMA. “It’s almost modern art, a very abstract chignon. The fishnet gives it a bit of mystery and the shape is sort of like a hat, but its hair,” she says. Read more from the lovely Rachel Hayes (at Daily Makeover) who weathered the tents to bring you these fab deets.
Threeasfour Key Artist, Gordon Espinet
the SPOT: What is your inspiration for this show?
GE: They always like a little some-thing but not a lot of makeup. Adi and Angela themselves, They love to look beautiful but its really sometimes more about cool than beautiful but the beauty is what walks in here. What I do to them is really not about trying to change it or trying to tell a story. Its just about adding a cool element to it. There is a lot of coral in the collection . Its not orange. Not Pink. Its' right in the middle. So we gravitated to that color. We wanted the girls to look really fresh and pretty because of course the cast is really young and fresh and pretty. Using a mixture of two MAC cream color bases. One is called virgin island the other is called real coral. We put it just at the back of their check so that they seem to have a radiance about them and we used a MAC lip conditioner called gentle coral. It looks really cute and pretty and little bit doll-like but no too doll-y. Then we used a brow set to make their brows look a little bushy. That's it we really kept it very subtle.
the SPOT: What is your Favorite runway look so far?
GE: I like the more artistic approach to makeup that we saw last season. I like to just see beautiful women. Yesterday I went to Alice McCol. She is English, grew up in Australia, showed in London and now she is showing here. She is fabulous. Makeup artist Matius did this really cool look based on the rorschach color test so at the end they put this gloss on their eyes and made them look up so that everyone has a different pattern that comes up. I thought it was really cool, like they were doing something that had an intellectual element but not making it too intellectual.
the SPOT: I have been following your updates on Twitter. Is this a new thing for you?
GE: Oh yes this is a new thing for me that I have to learn. (Cheery laughs all around as Gordon realizes I've already been tuned in to his every move via twitter) For the next five weeks, I'll be twittering up a storm. On top of the shows I do myself I get to go to a whole lot of other shows. So I'll keep twittering!
I couldn't help but share this adorable video of Gordon. He is in fact a legend.
M.A.C. Artists on Twitter for Fashion Week
