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Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons served up yet another beautiful show for autumn/winter 2024 in Milan—one that embedded “fragments of histories in an exploration of notions of beauty.” The collection was replete with feminine, romantic touches like frills and bows, and the beauty followed suit.
Hairstylist Guido Palau created breathtaking sculptural hair “inspired by the past and the future,” he told Vogue. “The inspiration came from both Miuccia and Raf. They talked to me about the collection and how it was about different eras in time, so we came up with this idea of this almost Art Nouveau style of hair, but done in a modern, futuristic way.”
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To create the look: “We used hair gel and high-shine lacquer to achieve a very sculpted, futuristic feeling to the hair,” he explained. “The style was achieved using both finger wave and pin curl techniques, which is an old fashioned setting idea.” The juxtaposition of a traditional technique with the futuristic results is exactly the approach Palau wanted. “Obviously everything is influenced by the past, and without the past you can’t have the present, so I felt this was a very modern take on a classic hair style.”
Prada Beauty’s global creative make-up artist Lynsey Alexander reeled off a string of words to explain the multitude of eras referenced in the beauty look: “Punk gothic, English schoolgirl, space alien, fragments of history, hard romance, ’40s wartime… there was so much happening in the collection, and with the hats and the glasses and intricate hair, the make-up had to be a little quieter—hence the softening of the brows,” she explains. “We didn’t remove them completely, but definitely reduced an element that might compete with everything else around the face. It also keeps a certain modernity when you have such a hyper nude face—not raw, as every feature was carefully perfected.”
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Alexander used Prada Beauty’s Reveal Skin Optimizing Foundation and Augmented Skin the Serum to create a super light yet flawless base. “We wanted to keep the girls’ natural texture and not create a mask of any sort,” she says. “I used the Monochrome Soft Matte Lipstick in Tiepolo as a contour, and on the lips, Nudo.” Brows were lightened using foundation brushed through, or “if the brows were super dark they were bleached and softly dyed back to a much lighter taupe. I used the skin serum over the make-up as a highlighter.”