method to the madness
Chaotic beauty: Backstage with 5 top designers at New York Fashion Week
Sep 19, 2012 | 7:52 pm
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Photo by Niraj Mehdiratta
A great deal of work goes into a few fleeting moments of runway glory. CultureMap was behind the scenes at New York Fashion Week to get the scoop on the beauty philosophies that helped bring to life the designers' visions.
Photo by Caitlin Ryan
Christian Siriano The scene at Eyebeam hours before Christian Siriano's show was incredibly calm and collected and — hooray — he had a wonderful spread of food available for the models! Aveda style director Antoinette Beenders created a bun atop the models' heads that looked more like that of a ballerina's after practice rather than before, welcoming any soft flyways. Polly Osmond for MAC created an understated pink palette for Siriano's spring summer 13 girls as to not take away from the glamorous garments. She used a large fluffy blush to deposit MAC's Tenderling over Cream Colour Bases in Luna and Shell. Pick up lipstick in Creme Cup to finish out the lips. Nails were painted in Linen Grapefruit by CND. Models draped their hands over their shoulders to quicken the makeup-and-manicure process.