London a/w 09 Trends

Crazy Colour
From blue lips to red eyeshadow, colour reigned supreme. At Ashish make-up artist Sharon Dowsett channelled Coco the clown, ‘but with more cool than clown’, and used Mac Chromalines Pro Cream Colour and leather stencils to give the models clown mouths. At Osman Yousefzada Lisa Eldridge created ‘polished, pretty robots’, a feminine look with a futuristic edge using the yellow from Clarins’ Summer Make-up eye palette to make eyes pop. The liner at John Rocha is probably the most wearable way to recreate the look – we love this aqua shade if you have brown eyes, but for blue eyes try pink or purple.

Crazy Colour
From blue lips to red eyeshadow, colour reigned supreme. At Ashish make-up artist Sharon Dowsett channelled Coco the clown, ‘but with more cool than clown’, and used Mac Chromalines Pro Cream Colour and leather stencils to give the models clown mouths. At Osman Yousefzada Lisa Eldridge created ‘polished, pretty robots’, a feminine look with a futuristic edge using the yellow from Clarins’ Summer Make-up eye palette to make eyes pop. The liner at John Rocha is probably the most wearable way to recreate the look – we love this aqua shade if you have brown eyes, but for blue eyes try pink or purple.

Crazy Colour
From blue lips to red eyeshadow, colour reigned supreme. At Ashish make-up artist Sharon Dowsett channelled Coco the clown, ‘but with more cool than clown’, and used Mac Chromalines Pro Cream Colour and leather stencils to give the models clown mouths. At Osman Yousefzada Lisa Eldridge created ‘polished, pretty robots’, a feminine look with a futuristic edge using the yellow from Clarins’ Summer Make-up eye palette to make eyes pop. The liner at John Rocha is probably the most wearable way to recreate the look – we love this aqua shade if you have brown eyes, but for blue eyes try pink or purple.

Crazy Colour
From blue lips to red eyeshadow, colour reigned supreme. At Ashish make-up artist Sharon Dowsett channelled Coco the clown, ‘but with more cool than clown’, and used Mac Chromalines Pro Cream Colour and leather stencils to give the models clown mouths. At Osman Yousefzada Lisa Eldridge created ‘polished, pretty robots’, a feminine look with a futuristic edge using the yellow from Clarins’ Summer Make-up eye palette to make eyes pop. The liner at John Rocha is probably the most wearable way to recreate the look – we love this aqua shade if you have brown eyes, but for blue eyes try pink or purple.

The Rule Breakers
For the stylists and make-up artists at London Fashion week the recession was never far from their minds. At Luella each of the models had a completely unique look: ‘We’ve seen blanding out of models at shows,’ commented hair stylist Guido as he created the thirty different looks. ‘But people need to be more creative and innovative in times like these. This is about lots of different characters – when people are feeling low, they experiment and style comes out.’
Over at Vivienne Westwood Mac make-up artist Gordon Espinet explained how each of the different looks were based on the gangs at school – goths, chavs, rock girls and 1950s girls - taking the mistakes you made as a teenager and making them beautiful.
Overall, the word from backstage was to survive the crunch by accessing your inner creativity, perhaps by looking back to your teens and harnessing some of that fearless ingenuity to create a look that’s uniquely you. Time to do it your way, it seemed to say, so get ready to play…

The Rule Breakers
For the stylists and make-up artists at London Fashion week the recession was never far from their minds. At Luella each of the models had a completely unique look: ‘We’ve seen blanding out of models at shows,’ commented hair stylist Guido as he created the thirty different looks. ‘But people need to be more creative and innovative in times like these. This is about lots of different characters – when people are feeling low, they experiment and style comes out.’
Over at Vivienne Westwood Mac make-up artist Gordon Espinet explained how each of the different looks were based on the gangs at school – goths, chavs, rock girls and 1950s girls - taking the mistakes you made as a teenager and making them beautiful.
Overall, the word from backstage was to survive the crunch by accessing your inner creativity, perhaps by looking back to your teens and harnessing some of that fearless ingenuity to create a look that’s uniquely you. Time to do it your way, it seemed to say, so get ready to play…