The hair and makeup team left no stone unturned in the beauty direction of the Thom Browne New York Fashion Week show. Like the clothing, the beauty leaves viewers awestruck by this avant-garde masterpiece courtesy of Isamaya French.
The theme and collection of the show are Crowa lyric poem written by famous author and poet Edgar Allan Poe. Crow The story of a man who grieves after losing the love of his life, Lenore. He is visited by a talking crow, but their conversation only deepens the narrator’s introspection about grief, love, and loss.
How did that transform into the runway stage? In fact, it was rather successful. Sadness has been reimagined to a level of sophisticated exuberance, mixed with mischievous playfulness. Brown’s iconic clothing silhouette merged with Isamaya’s bold red lips on her French. Her hair was reminiscent of bird feathers, topped with a funereal, high-fashion veil and black headpiece. French gave us all the details about how he worked to transform the model into a modern representation of Poe’s work. Crow.
She told Hypebae that there were two hero looks the beauty team wanted to achieve. One imitates a crow and the other imitates a praying mantis. Ms. French worked with Ms. Rasifai to create a bird-like look by meticulously placing false eyelashes at the corners of her eyes, creating, in her words, a more “animalistic, feline effect.” created. As for the eye makeup, the team used a monochromatic palette of grey, white and black eyeshadow to create a sculptural socket, and aimed to create a deep contour under the nose to further enhance the animal effect. Ta. What about those bold red lips the models wore on the runway? “It was Cardinal She Red,” she shared, adding that it was a product from French’s namesake beauty line, Isamaya She Beauty.
As for the show’s biggest glamorous moment, she admitted it’s all about the glitter: “We have a really amazing hero, who’s totally gold. She has these amazing gold eyelashes and she She has a lot of gold glitter on her face: she is the beautiful hero of the show.”
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