Our Crazy PS1 Weekend! Art! Fashion! Makeup!

As mentioned, the Lancome team spent the weekend at PS1, the Long Island City museum, doing makeup for Move! This event paired top performance artists and designers for a series of performances and installations. The delightful and talented Alice Lane led the makeup team, which included some of our favorite artists such as Oslyn Holder, Kim White and Andrew Sotomayor.



The weekend was intense and crazy. Each day began at 9 a.m. when the team had to paint three very handsome Calvin Klein models with silver body paint and then coat them with silver leaf. This in itself was performance art. It took almost three hours the first day. Andrew, it turns out, is a master body painter!



I'll try to write more later. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to visit us, including our fave new blogger, Emily Weiss of Into the Gloss. (Check out her great post.) In the meantime, enjoy the pictures!!

CAPTIONS:

1. One of the silver Calvin Klein models. These guys were sooo patient.

2. Visitors to the Cheryl room

3. One of the spoken word performers from the Alexander Wang collaboration

4. Doing makeup in the Cheryl room

5. One of the Rodarte performers

6. Applying the silver leaf

7. The Terence Koh/Calvin Klein performance

8. Terence Koh (center) with Alice Lane (right)

9. The silver Calvin Klein models

10. Move! curators Cecilia Dean and David Coleman

11. Lancome lipsticks and crushed eye eyeshadows. (Don't they look pretty crushed up?)

12. A Rodarte performer gets his opal face mask

13. Me & Alice Lane

14. Cynthia Rowley's installation. Happy not to be one of those models! Yes, that's real paint being poured on her head.

15. Cheryl's dance party

PHOTOS BY COLIN LANE

Behind the Scenes @ Chris Benz Spring 2011!

We once again did the makeup for Chris Benz, whom, as you know, is a young designer we love. Our spokesmodel Elettra introduced us to Chris several seasons ago and we've been working together ever since. I'm sure a few of you snagged the special lipstick we did for Chris last season.



His Spring 2011 collection was inspired by the idea of a young American woman in Paris in the late 60s, riding around on the back of her boyfriend's Vespa and getting into all kinds of mischief. The amazing Daniel Martin did the makeup for us and came up with a great look that used products from our upcoming Ultra Lavande Spring 2011 collection. See the blue/purple nail polish, Violet Groove, above. Daniel also used the new Teint Miracle foundation, Blush Subtil in Mauve Coquette, Artliner and Hypnose Drama mascara. Some of our favorite makeup artists were on Daniel's crew: Oslyn Holder, Ewa Szwed, Michelle Phan and Maki. Pictures of them above!



Chris does a presentation instead of an actual runway show. The models stand on a platform and guests stream in and get a great look at the clothes. You can really get up close and see the detail, unlike during a runway show. The room was packed with celebrities (I spotted Kelly Osbourne and Jessica Szohr. I'll try to find a picture of Jessica. MUA Andrew Sotomayor did her makeup for us.); gorgeous fashion bloggers like Bryanboy and Fashiontoast; our favorite illustrator Danny Roberts and his charming brother David, and tons of fashion editors and retailers. Even Chris's mom was there! (That's her above in shirt with the sequins.)



Well, enjoy the pictures. We'll put more on Facebook as soon as we have a chance. We're dong the L'Wren Scott show tomorrow. Aaron De Mey has made more than a dozen custom eye shadows and we made a special nail polish that L'Wren requested. Check back for details and maybe a little sneak peek in the morning!