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Fall 2010 Beauty Report: Red lips

This classic look was modified in a multitude of ways.
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How do you reinvent a classic beauty cornerstone like the red lip? Makeup artists dreamt up a multitude of ways: modifying the tone, playing with texture or dialing down the intensity. At Givenchy, designer Riccardo Tisci wanted a red lip but one that was “decadent, modern embellished,” says Pat McGrath, who delivered by crushing glitter into lipstick. In line with the film noir inspiration at Donna Karan, Charlotte Tilbury layered on pencil and lipstick and topped it with gloss to create a maraschino-like mouth. Meanwhile, in Milan, Domenica Dolce and Stefano Gabbana had the heritage of the brands in their minds, so to honour their Sicilian sartorial inspiration, they envisioned “a new Sophia Loren,” says McGrath. She patter on three shades of lipstick from the designers’ cosmetic line with her fingers and blotted, “so that the mouths looked a little bit worn and not perfect.”

DONNA KARAN Fall 2010

First published in FASHION Magazine September 2010

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