Val Garland For M.a.c By Gareth Pugh And Ruth Hogben
Home / Gareth Pugh for M.A.C by Ruth Hogben Gareth Pugh for M.A.C by Ruth Hogben Fashion maverick Gareth Pugh collaborates with fashion film director Ruth Hogben on this film to unveil his first make-up range, created with M.A.C. Fashion maverick Gareth Pugh collaborates with fashion film director Ruth Hogben on this film to unveil his first make-up range, created with M.A.C.
It's really good,' he says. 'You've got a place for your lippie and for your shaver in here. My mum and my aunties are very excited about their Christmas presents this year. 'I didn't think about this project in terms of expansion. For me, it's never like that. I did it because Mac asked me and it's a great thing to do.
Now I don't really leave the house without it, even if I'm just nipping to the shops. To me, it's like putting my shoes on.' Mac, similarly, is not a name readily associated with the shrinking violet. 'There's instinctually a synthesis between Gareth Pugh and Mac as brands,' says James Gager, the cosmetic company's senior vice-president and creative director. 'Mac loves black and Gareth loves black.
This show contains only images of women inspired by new and old female archetypes: the feminist, the object, the demon, the earth mother, the trickster, the shaman and the innocent. Andreas Grimm Gallery Inez & Vinoodh have photographed Carmen for French Vogue, Japanese Vogue, & the iconic Narciso Rodriguez perfume campaign.
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'She's very beautiful. But she looks like she might kill you,' says Gareth Pugh of model Alla Kostromichova, the lovely if admittedly somewhat intimidating face of his soon-to-launch, limited-edition line of make-up and accessories, designed in collaboration with Mac. And that just about sums up not only the designer's aesthetic more broadly, but also this latest venture. On a table in front of us, all packaged in fiercely heavyweight, high-shine geometric black, is a duo-chromatic nail polish that flashes from emerald to amethyst; a powder designed to suit all skin colours and render the complexion entirely – almost a touch morbidly? – matt; and lip gloss that is relatively discreet when worn alone but high-impact when layered over dark and distressed shades of lipstick. Then there are probably the most enormous false eyelashes the world has ever seen – they're called Flight Lashes, presumably because should they catch the breeze their wearer might inadvertently take to the skies in them, which would be good. 'I got the biggest ones Mac does and chopped them up, basically,' Pugh laughs.
It is really nice, though, that people who maybe can't afford my clothes can buy this. It's a bit like having a perfume, something that's entry level, a lot more inexpensive but still part of me. It's really satisfying for me to do something beautiful that a lot of people can buy.' Gareth Pugh for Mac will be available at selected Mac locations nationwide and at maccosmetics.co.uk from December 2011 Irish Independent Belfast Telegraph.
'She's very beautiful. Dr lancerer lsning for mac. But she looks like she might kill you,' says Gareth Pugh of model Alla Kostromichova, the lovely if admittedly somewhat intimidating face of his soon-to-launch, limited-edition line of make-up and accessories, designed in collaboration with Mac.
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And that just about sums up not only the designer's aesthetic more broadly, but also this latest venture. On a table in front of us, all packaged in fiercely heavyweight, high-shine geometric black, is a duo-chromatic nail polish that flashes from emerald to amethyst; a powder designed to suit all skin colours and render the complexion entirely – almost a touch morbidly? – matt; and lip gloss that is relatively discreet when worn alone but high-impact when layered over dark and distressed shades of lipstick. Then there are probably the most enormous false eyelashes the world has ever seen – they're called Flight Lashes, presumably because should they catch the breeze their wearer might inadvertently take to the skies in them, which would be good.