M·A·C Spring/Summer 07

It’s Spring/Summer again…although you wouldn’t necessarily know it from the look on the models’ faces for S/S 07. In place of the healthy, sun-tinted complexions that we customarily tend to gravitate towards in summertime, the catwalks presented nothing so “holiday.” “The way we live in the world today makes our lives essentially seasonless – we talk about beauty in much more flexible terms now than it just being about ‘winter’ or ‘summer’ looks,” explains dick page. Tom Pecheux agrees: “I’m less interested in making a makeup appear ‘winter’ or ‘summer’ as I am in projecting the spirit of a woman…she could be anywhere, from urban new york city to a dinner in Paris or a yacht in the South of France,” he says. Hence M·A·C artists went easy on summer seasoning… the resulting makeups weren’t bland, but they did tend to build on common flavours: matte, pale skin and plays on texture are the foundations onto which S/S 07 looks are built. “The complexion is certainly more matte this summer, but it’s not heavy. It’s all about making the skin as light as possible, really minimizing the amount of base we are using and then adding an element of some shine or some highlight…the overall feeling is one of freshness and giving the face dimension,” says Charlotte Tilbury. Refreshingly, nowhere have the words “Bohemian” or “Hollywood Glamour” even been so much as hinted at. In their place comes the idea of a more urbane naturalness, a feeling that runs the gamut from tough, slightly aggressive eye liners (urbaneyesation) to nude makeups with a couture polish (elemental couture), taking in the barest of the bare faces (mono cream mattic) on its way. Yes, it’s a pretty “bare all” season (80 per cent of the makeups were on the natural side), but M·A·C artists did step back to the 80’s when it came to colour (twisted pigment – urban but certainly not natural), providing a flash of pure makeup fun at a moment in the evolution of makeup in which skin is the most serious feature to focus on makeup’s in a new nude light.