Behind the Scenes at Our PS1 Move! Weekend

Lancome was the makeup sponsor for PS1 Move!, the performance art/fashion event that took place over Halloween weekend with the likes of Rodarte, Proenza Schouler, Calvin Klein, Cynthia Rowley and others. Here's a behind-the-scenes video shot by our friends at Phear Creative. Eagle-eyed makeup artist fans will spot some of our favorite MUAs, including Alice Lane, Kim White and Andrew Sotomayor. Can you believe those silver Calvin Klein models? Or the Cynthia Rowley models and the paint?



As you can imagine, we went through quite a bit of the blue Bi-Facil eye makeup remover and our cult Eau Fraiche Douceur cleansing water at the end of each day.



The weekend was a lot of fun and quite a stretch from the usual makeup event. Let us know what you think!

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

Lancôme's Artsy Halloween @ PS1!

OLAF BREUNING AND CYNTHIA ROWLEY FOR MOVE! AT MOMA PS1 from V Magazine on Vimeo.

If you're in New York this Halloween weekend, stop by PS1 for Move!, a series of fashion and performance art collaborations curated by Visionaire magazine. Lancôme will be doing all the makeup. Our lead makeup artist for the weekend will be the lovely and talented Alice Lane. (If you didn't read about Alice in Vogue recently, check out the article above.) Alice and her team will be applying lots of body paint, face makeup and even silver leaf to dozens of dancers and performance artists over the course of the two-day event. We'll be packing a lot of Bi-Facil!



Some of our favorite fashion brands are involved, such as Rodarte, Proenza Schouler, Marc Jacobs and Cynthia Rowley, and several amazing artists. If you're around, stop by and say hi. The makeup area is open to the public. The entire event is free and open to the public.



For our friends who don't live near NYC, we'll have a video and lots of pictures to share with you soon.



Enjoy the video from Cynthia Rowley!

No Go: MAC Rethinks Rodarte Collection and Pulls Out

MAC Cosmetics rethinks decision to launch the controversially marketed Rodarte x MAC collection and withdraws.  MAC made the announcement via their facebook page with this little note:

This decision will not impact M·A·C 's commitment to donate all of its projected profits from the collection to benefit the women and girls of Juarez.

Out of respect for the people of Mexico, the women and girls of Juarez and their families, as well as our M·A·C Mexican staff and colleagues, M·A·C has made the decision not to ship the M·A·C Rodarte limited edition makeup collection. This decision will have no impact on M·A·C's commitment to donate all of its projected global profits from this collection to local and international groups that work to improve the lives of the women and girls of Juarez. We are currently conducting due diligence to ensure we donate to organizations with a proven record of directly supporting the women and girls of Juarez.

M·A·C and Rodarte are deeply and sincerely sorry and we apologize to everyone we offended. We have listened very closely to the feedback of concerned global citizens. We are doing our very best to right this wrong. The essence of M·A·C is to give back and care for the community and Rodarte is committed to using creativity for positive social change. We are grateful for the opportunity to use what we have learned to raise awareness on this important issue.

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No word on whether Rodarte will follow suit with their fashion collection.  One finds most often art makes no apologies, but we shall see. For more commentary on this controversy, I'd encourage you to check out my beauty blogging buddy Pink Sith's article on the issue.  She outlined some well thought out points on the matter.