Miss Sixties
If there’s a big make-up trend this Autumn, then it’s a return to the 1960s for inspiration. Make-up artists turned back the clock at many shows and in true 60s style, the eyes took centre stage. Alexander McQueen sited the Hitchcock heroine Kim Novak as one of his main influences and his make-up maestro added a slick of black to the outside of models’ eyes and beautifully turned up lashes instantly re-created the screen siren’s simmering sex appeal (left).
Over at Dolce & Gabbana, girls such as Gemma Ward and Heather Marks took on a Twiggy-esq wide-eyed look with huge curling lashes.
Playing It Straight
When it comes to hair, for the past season or so, it has all been about curls and waves, but in a sudden reversal of fortune, it’s great to go straight. It may not seem long since girls were slaves to their straightening irons, but this time the look is fuss-free and minimal, designed to set off the new fashionably pale complexion. This new look was encapsulated perfectly at the Missoni show (left). Here neatly slicked, centre-parted hair hung flat against girls’ heads, their faces illuminated only with the subtlest shades of make-up.
At Chanel’s Paris show, similar centre-parted mains were long, slick and cut to finish with sharp, blunt ends.
The Whiter Shade Of Pale
Following on from the trend for silvery highlights on sun-kissed skin that prevailed this Summer, now make-up gurus have turned their attention to white, for a Winter of alabaster skin and even paler accents.
Nowhere was this better exemplified than at Marni (left) where models appeared purer than the driven snow with natural lips and dusty white eyeshadow above and below the eyes.
And at Gucci, ice queens like Carmen Kass stepped out on to the runway with ghostly complexions and the palest lips, their eyes set off by black eye-liner and a trace of silvery blue shadow underneath.
Leave a Reply
