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| Photography by Lucas Seidenfaden |
Backstage
at Dans La Vie it was calm, cool and collected. Models re-hydrated post
run-through as I grabbed a few seconds with Lan Nguyen head of make up
design about her concept translation and use of Body Shop products to
create the catwalk looks:
What
brief did Riri Sugawara give you for the Dans La Vie SS12 collection?
Four
musicians; Amy Winehouse, Madonna, Rihanna and Lady Gaga, so with the music
influence we had to choose something that was equally as strong, they all have
a [black] eyeliner. The inspiration for the lips we chose a colour that suited
that personality so Madonna being back in the nineteen [80s] iconic era we went
for the orange red, for Rihanna we went for a baby pink, with Lady Gaga
obviously we used bright blue...
Which
Body Shop products have you relied on the most to create these looks?
The top
three products have been the tinted moisturiser because it has that little bit
more coverage, a lot of the girls are loving it. Also, the liquid liners have
been amazing to apply; they're waterproof, smudgeproof and they're black which
is great, they don't change colour. Also the shimmering highlighter has been
really popular, because it's pearly[-esque] so it's got an intensity that
creates a reflected light on the skin so you get the contour of the cheek bone
without doing anything.
The three
key label.m products used for the Dans La Vie show to create the
scruffy bun looks directed by Bill Watson and his team from Toni
& Guy were the Volume Mousse, the Dry Shampoo and the Hairspray. He
also stopped for a minute to describe his styling for the show:
What
was the brief you were given for the hair for the Dans La Vie show by Riri
Sugawara?
It was
literally a photo of a young London woman, so the idea was to be beautiful,
soft, but with the contemporary feel of now.
And
how have you translated that into the looks you created here today?
I suppose
living here you draw from what you see...To be honest, it's what I see with
people who are on bikes, there's loads of push bikes going outside the academy
where we work and a lot of young women wear their hair like this so we used
that as our foundation, just a slight exaggeration; you distress it, make it
slightly larger.
How
have you worked with the Dans La Vie designs?
For sure,
it's almost like the placement on top of the head makes them look taller. It's
elegant, but it's not too stuffy.
Text: Madeleine Ayers