We’ve mined for gold on Instagram and filled our Netflix queues with enough 24-karat impact to last until New Year’s, but if we’re going to talk about the season’s growing metal mania, first we need to talk Pat McGrath.
The self-taught makeup artist’s rich, directional beauty statements for the runway, which include glittering bejeweled masks at Givenchy and gilded lips at Prada earlier this month, got us musing on the subject. After all, McGrath, who travels with as many as 50 bags of makeup, brushes, materials, and visual reference books, proves it’s the key to being famously ready for anything—whether the backstage beauty prescription calls for “nothing” or the amped-up gaze of a “futuristic club kid.” This is the woman who once told Vogue, “A silver’s not just a silver. There’s 30 versions of it.” So, too, with the shift of an undertone or fluctuation of texture, the idea of gold can take a bold new direction.
Take the painted brows of model Sasha Luss on Dior’s Spring 2014 runway or Guinevere van Seenus’s gilded cutouts in an early-aughts sitting for photographer Richard Burbridge. From a quietly brushed finish to a near-liquefied patina (and David Bowie–worthy third-eye disc), the resulting looks couldn’t be more divergent. A touch of shimmer at the inner corners of Lara Stone’s eyes in Vogue’s March 2010 issue gives her Jan van Eyck–esque portrait a winking modern-day tilt, whereas Vanessa Axente’s backstage sequined cat-eye lends otherworldly dimension to her technoviolet swoosh. With a range that can read as subtle, ornate, futuristic, classic, subversive, and everything in between, we hope to see more of it on (and off) the Paris runways this week.
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