This is very, very interesting because I just read this same excerpt from this latest issue of W Magazine!
(Sorry Elaine, I just had to bring the "Glamour" back and recirculate the cover issue featuring the FOTD that inspired another FOTD!)
I'll never go so far as to say that you've influenced
a generation, but you've definitely... influenced a moment! That...is what High Fashion is all about!
Quote:
Originally Posted by darkishstar
All I have to say is, it's not about making it wearable or making it work for you, this is intensely black and glittery, you can't make it an everyday look. Even just the MES applied over black liner WILL make a statement.
But there is a difference, you can ROCK it everyday and anytime if you wish. It's the confidence. You can be edgy, glam, and cool, not just at a night club, who cares if someone is looking at you weird if you're walking around with these MES smudged all over your eyes? That's what I plan on wearing, and people can go to hell if they're giving me funny looks because I know I'll be looking different and absolutely fabulous.
It's about HOW you wear it, not about making it wearable or everyday. It's about wearing it with confidence for what it's intended to be, DRAMATIC and over the top, in your face.
I seriously CANNOT wait for this.
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When I wrote the feature headlines on Elaine's W cover issue it was days before things became tense in this thread...as Elaine will know.
I'm rereading the headlines now and can't help but observe the sense of prophetic undertones.
While I'd LOVE nothing more than to debate the finer attributes of High Fashion Professional Makeup with those who
clearly mistake it for
Clinique,
Bonnie Bell, or even
Avon cosmetics (with respect).
I have to ask myself...
...is it that time of the year again to politely remind those that
M.A.C. has been the official cosmetic makeup supplier for all of Cirque Du Soleil's shows.
While I understand, and have felt
deeply, the great divide between those two widely different groups who use M.A.C. products cosmetically, and/or tranformatively as I do with the latter.
I'm reminded at every other thread I read that I must wish, as I would wish for world peace and harmony, that these two groups will learn to respect and admire one another and live in constant celebration of our diversities.
I'm, not only, honored, but I delight in the fact that there are such lines being drawn in the sand with M.A.C. Collections such as STYLE BLACK!
I also dismiss any allusions that any leftover M.A.C. products found
unsuitable for one's tastes will be ultimately utilized by teenagers posing as vampires wearing "fangs", and not the consummate Professionals in the Art & Makeup Industry!
May the bland, muted, and insipid curse of Estee Lauder be, FINALLY, broken with this - a symbolic arrival of a collection that evokes the vampiric conquest made by she who had taken the final possessive bite into M.A.C. in 1998!
What price vitality?
(God, I'd Love a dramatic 'n' satirical visual on this!)
I'll quote from M.A.C. Pro Online...just in case some forget it exists!
Head Makeup Designer, Nathalie Gagné, chose M·A·C products for the performance merits and staying power, enormous shade range and diverse range of long-wearing textures that survive the high-energy performances of the many theatrical, athletic and dramatic Cirque characters.
And to quote the Head Makeup Designer, Nathalie Gagné:
"
I am passionate about designing makeup for our shows and
I love the fact that I will be working closely with M·A·C to develop unique professional stage-products
that will be worn by the most amazing artists in the world. This new relationship with M·A·C will be in constant evolution, in constant re-invention...
and promises to enhance our field."
M.A.C. Artist Relations actively liaises with the world's film, television, music and theatrical industries. The M·A·C PRO Team, comprises M·A·C's stable of senior make up artists, is the voice, spirit, and living embodiment of M·A·C's products and culture. In the world's creative centers, members of the M·A·C PRO Team can be found on-set at photo shoots, backstage at the international fashion shows, behind the scenes at award nights, creating the onscreen looks for top celebrities or supplying techniques and tips to the world's media.
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