BACKSTAGE DIARIES: GRECIAN EYELINER IS ABOUT TO BECOME YOUR FAVOURITE THING

What’s the best news I could bring you from backstage at Maria Grazia Chiuri’s SS20 Dior couture show? OK, a clue, it’s eyeliner related. OK I’ll tell you, because international creative and image director of Dior makeup Peter Philips told me; Eyeliner is the secret to translating model makeup to IRL makeup.

Take this latest Couture show for instance. There were seventy eight models there. The theme was distinctly Grecian, even before we saw the clothes walk down the runway. Backstage hair and makeup stations were buzzing with fat braid-and wave-making, gilt headbands waiting to sit atop them, more gold twinkling in the makeup palettes, but the real winner was the eyeliner look because - hold the front page - it was easy. Easy and impactful, the perfect combination to make seventy-eight very different models look standout amazing on the catwalk. It worked on every very different eye shape. And it is the perfect combination to take straight off the catwalk and onto your own eyes. Here is how Peter told me to do it;

"It’s a very street-adapted look. Very wearable. Maria Grazia Chiuri gave me keywords only. For me it was ‘eyeliner’, because Maria and I always try to reinvent it or do a take on eyeliner, so this time it was very wearable actually."

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