BEAUTY
COLOUR PLAY AND CONFIDENCE Having mined such rich territories as colour, deconstruction and artifice in her nine Chanel beauty collections thus far, Lucia Pica considers texture for the Autumn-Winter 2018 Collection. Tapping the emotional depth and visual intensity offered by matte surfaces, the choice of eye and lip colours in Apotheosis, Le Mat De Chanel, evokes a uniquely feminine sensibility- one of inner quietude, serenity and self-possession.
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armony between a woman’s internal and external worlds are captured in a colour palette that brings earthy, autumnal shades for sculpting together with emotive colour tones to be applied in washes or layered like vibrant oils. Their light-absorbing formulations seem to control and soften the force of their surroundings. At the same time, the technical innovations provide comfort, elevating the matte products to the state of velvet and allowing them to keep their moisture as they become one with skin. As always, Chanel Beauty Creative Director Lucia Pica, designs her signature reds to act as both counterpoint and provocation, more vivid than ever in their matte extremity. With each of her collections, Lucia Pica fixes upon a new area of the beauty vocabulary, identifies an unexpected, untapped aspect for exploration, and then revises and refines that idea to its limits. In the Autumn-Winter 2018 Collection, extremes of texture and colour collide in a series of matte eye and lip products that go straight to the heart of the woman with whom Pica’s soulful, intelligent mindset resonates most. “Starting with such an abstract concept as matte connected me directly to the woman who would wear this finish and to how that would make her think and feel,” Pica explains.
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