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| The new MAC Beauty collaboration by Jeremy Scott is the most fun you'll have with make-up this year |
In the midst of the biannual dry week parade of dry hair and makeup without makeup, the backstage area of the Jeremy Scott parade in New York and later Moschino in Milan offers a welcome to the beauty of high tension. The inspiration could come from anywhere: the supermodels of the 1990s, Barbie, Ronald McDonald, Dolly Parton, drag queens and the anarchy of central New York in the 1980s. But you can be sure that there will be extreme wigs, bars imaginative and one-mile-long eyelashes both on the catwalk and the front row where her clique of chameleon muses gets their collections in their own hair and makeup. Think of women like Madonna, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Miley Cyrus and Cardi B, who inspire Scott as much as his clothes fuel his own self-expression.
"In general, when I'm sketching or meditating on a collection or a musician for whom I'm making fantasies, music is always being played," Scott says on a mysteriously serene winter afternoon in his Hollywood crib. It is an almost minimalist space, if not by weak accents of soft and opalescent chairs by Katie Stout, an anthropomorphic table lamp by Ettore Sottsass and her own bright, inventive and inventive clothes, hanging in nearby racks. Lately, he had "Comeback" from Scion on the replay, "and, of course, I always listen to my girls," he says, quoting the aforementioned mom's friends.
So when MAC asked Scott to collaborate on a limited-edition line two years ago (Feb. 8 at maccosmetics.com), he knew he would be inspired by music. "I love how music can take a room and weaken it," he says, citing the changing power of soundtracks created for Michel Gaubert's shows and the non-stop record he plays gently in his John Lautner house on the hillside . Los Angeles and "literally never" leaves. "It makes me feel really cozy, it's just kind of a business card from my house." And, really, that way, music is not like makeup? "You could have a white shirt and jeans, but make that face full of makeup and it's a totally different effect from a peeled look, I think it's fascinating."
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