Creative director Michele is lending his exuberant, multi-layered aesthetic to a newly minted cosmetics variety. The first drop—a fifty-eight-piece lipstick series—rewires Hollywood glamour to match his distinctive vision of beauty. If a fashion residence’s splendor manifesto is writ massive on its runways, Alessandro Michele has planted Gucci within the uncanny valley. Silicon tears glisten at the cheeks of clean-confronted models. Lime-inexperienced contacts give off a reptilian glow. Carrot-top mullets imagine a Bowie cameo in The Fifth Element. And that’s simply the Fall 2019 display.
Since the innovative director’s marvel appointment in 2015—Michele designed his debut guys’ collection, replete with pussy-bow blouses and fur-trimmed mules, in Abracadabra five days—his magpie international has sparked a collective fever dream. (It has also doubled the emblem’s revenue in 4 years, with 2017 bringing in a mentioned $7.1 billion.) When whispers of a Gucci makeup revival started swirling, the mind reeled with a ways-flung opportunity. What type of eye shadow is going with a poet-haired guy carrying gilded ear cuffs?
All of that could make the primary run of merchandise—a 58-piece lipstick lineup, which dropped to breathless fanfare this weekend—appear instead tame at the beginning look. “This is not your grandmother’s” is the cliché description for anything that disrupts a given class, but these dainty, postwar-fashion tubes might have been fished out of her beaded nighttime bag. The creamy formulation (there are 3: Richly pigmented Satin, sheer Voile, and tinted Baume) convey a whiff of powdery violet, like the candy-shop pastilles. Even the color names pay homage to Hollywood legends, including Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and Jean Harlow, whose title position in 1931’s Goldie (collectively with Michele’s fortunate quantity) inspired the line’s signature color, 25 Goldie Red.
But for Michele, the logo’s cinematic nostalgia is rooted inside the gift. “It’s not easy to live now,” the newly mounted clothier advised Vogue in 2015. “I suppose we want to dream. So I desired to offer an idea of something romantic, in dream time—like in a movie.” He’s doing precisely that with the lipstick rollout, beginning with a pop-surrealist marketing campaign video playing out throughout pocket-length monitors. Only right here, the leading girl—Surfbort frontwoman Dani Miller, joined by a trio of fashions—wears a black mullet, devilish cat eyes, and the type of smile that makes a keen orthodontist swoon.
“You’ve been given the best tooth within the international!” makeup artist Thomas de Kluyver raved on Friday morning in New York as he swiped Goldie Red across Miller’s lips. Her one-of-a-type mouth—with gaps you may seemingly drive a chopstick via—gets a scrumptious closeup in one campaign picture alongside the tagline, “For the formidable, the brilliant, and the lovely.” Stretching one’s beauty norms is a massive part of Gucci’s task, making de Kluyver this kind of coup as the newly named international makeup artist.
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