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If there are two things la Parisienne is known for, it s effortlessly chic hair and a natural born ability to work a hat. But at today s Dior Spring 2018 show, designer Maria Grazia Chiuri was thinking about one Gallic stunner in particular: the French-American artist and feminist Niki de Saint Phalle, whose aristocratic bone structure, rumpled bob and penchant for a side-leaning 60s hat were a loose jumping point for the show s beauty look.
In an ode to the millinery-minded de Saint Phalle, Chiuri s collection featured four different styles of the latter, including fishnet-veiled denim berets and jet-black newsboy caps, designed by Stephen Jones. Before pinning each model s chapeau into place, backstage hairstylist Guido Palau used Redken s No Blow Dry Airy Cream and tonged the hair to refine each girl s natural texture, then smoothed it back into a neat half-up, half-down style and secured it with the perfect French touch: Delicate, Dior-logo-emblazoned rainbow crystal barrettes. "It s very proper, very bourgeois—but innocent" said Palau.
The unwavering common denominator for the Dior woman come spring? Deliberately clumpy lashes. The handiwork of makeup artist Peter Philips, he began with a coat of Dior s Maximizer 3D Triple primer, then added two to three layers of Pump N Volume mascara. And true to the show s spirit, he wasn t precious with the application. "If you do it too clean and perfect you won’t get the fat effect," he told his assistants. "Make a mess, then clean it up!" Capturing the duality of de Saint Phalle as an artist and a woman who never held back, it was just the right sentiment.
