Models’ cheeks were in full blush on various runways during the recent Paris spring 2024 women’s ready-to-wear season.
That was true at Coperni, for one.
“This season the beauty look is ‘French studious.’ [Models] are modern and inherently cool, but more concerned about learning music and instruments — so they throw on a bit of rouge on the high points of their cheeks and quickly blend it and use the same color buffed into the lips. And they’re off!” said Fara Homidi, who was wielding her own signature makeup line — Nude 1 and Nude 2, according to models’ complexions.
Over at Leonard, makeup artist Tiziana Raimondo gleaned inspiration from the “neo-’60s.”
“We wanted the general mood of the looks to be sunny, but not too tanned,” she explained. “Like a Parisian girl in the South of France — deceptively wise with a ‘bad girl’ twist.
“We wanted a very natural and healthy complexion,” continued Raimondo. “The blush gives to the face a fresh and innocent apparel, and contrasts with the dark mascara of the eyes. A modern Sharon Tate-inspired look.”
In the run-up to Victoria/Tomas’ display, designers Victoria Feldman and Tomas Berzins showed MAC makeup artist Tom Sapin some illustrations, patterns and fabrics related to snake iconography.
“It immediately came to my mind to recreate what is the most captivating about snakes, which is their skin and their eyes, in a beauty — yet street — look,” said Sapin. “I gave the skin a luxurious signature with a yellow-green sheen using MAC Old Gold pigment. We applied it on top of the new serum-powered foundation Studio Radiance.
“My makeup team applied it on the high points of the face – cheekbones, nose, cupid’s bow – only, very softly, to avoid anything too caricatural or overdone,” he added. “What I love working with Victoria/Tomas is that we always start from a story for inspiration that we bring to something definitely genderless, beautiful and wearable.”
