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We speak to the make-up artist about developing her craft, working on the Yohji Yamamoto runway shows, and how AR is changing the industry
For make-up artist Jenny Coombs, everything comes down to skin. “I am very passionate about skin looking like skin and all of the beautiful textures to play with,” she says. After honing what she calls her “skin craft” while assisting artists like Maki Ryoke and Lucia Pieroni, Coombs broke out on her own, bringing her signature style of luminous skin always with a pop of colour everywhere from Burberry to
British Vogue and
Buffalo Zine.
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Alexander McQueen is once again donating surplus material to fashion students Naomi May
Storied British fashion house Alexander McQueen is once again donating fabric to fashion institutions across the UK in a bid to reduce surplus waste.
The fabric donation scheme was established by the brand’s creative director Sarah Burton in 2019 in a bid to equip burgeoning fashion talents with free resources.
“When times are so much more difficult for young creative people, taking action to share our resources and open eyes to opportunities has become a central in-house commitment at Alexander McQueen, which we all take very seriously,” Burton says, “It’s our responsibility to extend our programme of practical help and encouragement to students and fashion schools.”
Filmed while the city languishes under a strict night-time curfew, the show also paid homage to nightclubbing. The low-lit corridors of Castel club, the left-bank haunt of Serge Gainsbourg and Françoise Hardy, which is to Paris what Annabels in Mayfair is to London, stood in for a catwalk. Models tossed their tweed overcoats in the tiny box cloakroom, chandelier earrings brushing as they squeezed past one another on the narrow staircases.
Viard âwanted something warm, lively ⦠I imagined the models doing a show for themselves, going from room to room,â she said. Also on her mood board was the stylised nocturnal glamour of Jean-Baptiste Mondinoâs 1985 music video for Bryan Ferryâs Slave to Love.
Chanel hosted its fall/winter 2021 show in Paris's restaurant Castel, which boasts many small rooms that models walked through like being filled in a tiny house.