Today, Maria Grazia Chiuri s first couture collection for Dior bowed at the Musée Rodin, which was outfitted with trailing moss and strung lights that conjured a fairy-tale sensibility. The occasion called for an equally romantic beauty look that, much like the breathtaking clothes, continued to play off the house founder s obsession with talismans and other superstitions; here, it took the form of a lucky star, winking from the inner corners of the eyes.
Backstage makeup artist Peter Philips outfitted models with gold and silver sequins, while a few black stars affixed below the pupils were painted with nail polish by Philips s own hand. To evoke a more fantastic element, some girls received a constellation of metallic motifs along the cheekbones, left "like stardust, as Philips called it. A slick of Dior s Lip Sugar Scrub Sweet Exfoliating Balm on the lips and the barest touch of lacquer completed the look, letting the supernova ornamentation carry the face.
"It s very simple, almost elf-like," Philips said. Paired with Pre-Raphaelite curls, worked beneath elaborate floral and feathered headdresses by Stephen Jones, the pastiche of otherworldly references lent itself to overtly feminine clothes—a surreally beautiful pick-me-up to inspire your beauty routine this winter, as an early rite of spring.
