Back in June, news leaked that Gareth Pugh was doing a makeup line with his long-time runway collaborator, MAC. We got to meet and chat with the designer at an event back in July, where we ogled his nail polish and learned that the packaging was like a weapon. Well, now we finally get to see it in real life. 'With a collection that goes from strong, deep and mysterious to light, fragile, and ethereal, I think we’ve created a truly versatile collection that hopefully you’ll be inspired by and want to wear.'
Gareth Pugh said in a release. And based on the individual pieces and the beauty look at left, we definitely want to wear it. It's a pretty full collection, and includes cream shadows, LipGlass, lipsticks, powder, liners, fake lashes, and even a makeup bag. The designer was inspired by everything from a hematite rock to butterfly wings.
And those angular lashes are the result of him snipping away at a bunch of fake lashes that MAC sent him with the goal of making them non-lash-shaped. And while all of the packaging still has the signature MAC black sheen, it's done in a much heavier material with a geometric 'X' in the center. But can we discuss the nail lacquers for a second?
Gareth wore them layered and it had this amazing beetle-like finish with an iridiscent sheen. The three lacquers are Inert (creamy mid-tone grey/nude), Ascension (grey with blue violet reflective pearl), and Hyper (deep blue with violet pearl). If you're in North America, you can get the collection starting November 23, and internationally in December. Prices range from $15 for mascara to $75 for the makeup bag. Click through below to see all the pieces. MAC is teasing us mercilessly about the brand’s impending collaboration with Brit designer Gareth Pugh. News leaked a few weeks ago that the designer and MAC, who have worked together on runway shows since the beginning of the designer's career, are doing a limited edition makeup collection which will hit counters in November.
MAC hosted a party last night to fete Gareth and the collab, and left us wanting to know much, much more-which we suppose is the whole point. This collection is going to be major, whether you’re a makeup nerd or not. What do Johnny Weir, Daphne Guinness, Iris Apfel, and Beth Ditto have in common?
They all have a distinct style point-of-view, and now they all have MAC collections. WWD announced today that Beth Ditto is the latest quirky MAC muse. The brand and the singer have a bit of a history: Ditto performed last September at the MAC store in NYC's Soho neighborhood for Fashion's Night Out, making it one of the top stops on everyone's FNO agenda. The match makes a ton of sense-MAC loves a strong makeup statement and so does Ditto.
She's rarely seen without heavy, winged black eyeliner (sometimes purposely smeared all over her face).
Famous English fashion designer Garet Pugh and MAC Cosmetics have met again, but this time not for the runway. They actually designed a new collection which will be released on November 23rd in North America, and internationally in December 2011. In the words of Garet Pugh, the collection is versatile and includes cream shadows, LipGlass, lipsticks, powder, and even a makeup bag. The prices range from $15 for mascara to $75 for the makeup bag.
“With a collection that goes from strong, deep and mysterious to light, fragile, and ethereal, I think we’ve created a truly versatile collection that hopefully you’ll be inspired by and want to wear,” said Garet Pugh in a press release. In two limited edition shades retails at $22.00 U.S.
Restrict - Creamy grayed. Fervent - Glossy blackened berry in two limited edition shades retails at $22.00 U.S.
Vacant - Sheer light lavender gray with violet pearl. Outrage - Sheer berry with blue pearl in two limited edition shades retails at $32.00 U.S. Obscura - Frosted gunmetal grey.
Ardent - Frosty blackened burgundy are also offered in two limited edition shades and priced at $32.00 U.S. Guise - Frosty grey. Deceit - Blacked plum with pink pearl in a limited edition retails at $60.00 U.S.
Elude - Translucent neutral beige in a limited edition retails at $30.00 U.S. Strada - Mid-tone nude for $60.00 U.S.
Gareth Pugh's New Makeup Collection For Mac
Buffer - Square handled buffer brush in three limited edition shades, each priced at $23.00 U.S. Inert - Creamy mid-tone greyed nude. Ascension - Grey with blue violet reflective pearl.
Hyper - Deep blue with violet pearl retails at $75.00 U.S. It is a high gloss square bag with mate design on front and back.
The bag features convenient pockets in the inside as well as elastic loops.
A collaboration collection with M.A.C means avant-garde designer Gareth Pugh's work is a little more accessible for the masses. 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 new limited-edition line of makeup and accessories, designed in collaboration with M.A.C. 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 M.A.C does and chopped them up, basically,' Pugh laughs. 'When you put them on top and bottom they work really well. They look like horse blinkers.' Speaking more generally, he says of the origins of the collection in question: 'M.A.C asked me to send them things that I like - colours and textures.
I went through my studio and I never throw anything away so I've got all this stuff.' It almost goes without saying that said 'stuff' is more than averagely interesting.
'There's a butterfly ring, which is how we came up with the iridescent thing. There was a haematite rock that I'd picked up in Evolution in New York. I can't resist that place. It's full of dead things and crystals. I sent M.A.C the feathered head-dresses from my spring/summer 2010 show - light grey feathers, that's how we came up with that colour. It's all come from the same place so it works as a collection, I think.
It tells a story.' And that story brings together what Pugh describes as 'two opposing elements that can be merged and mixed. You've got a very dark, quite full-on element, and then there's an ethereal, silvery grey side to the collection.' A promotional film has been shot with Kostromichova playing two different characters. 'It's a bit like a fight.
There's friction there,' Pugh says. Directed by Ruth Hogben, styled by Katie Shillingford, with makeup directed by Val Garland for M.A.C and music by Matthew Stone, the end result, which will be screened in-store alongside the product, is a group effort between people who have worked together often. And, like all the best link-ups, the relationship between Pugh and M.A.C has also developed over an extended period of time. He has long been supported by the cosmetics company, with independent make-up artist Alex Box and the M.A.C Pro team working on the makeup for his biannual ready-to-wear shows. M.A.C also shares with the designer a less than conventional approach to physical appearance. It has been associated with everyone from Lady Gaga to Elton John and from Pugh to newly installed fashion diva, Miss Piggy. 'We've known each other for a long time now, M.A.C and me,' Pugh says.
'I've seen what M.A.C's done in the past and it's been great - very thoughtful and well-presented. The company understands me very well. I don't do a lot of collaborations, especially not with big companies, and I think only a few of those would be willing to commit to this level of investment: custom packaging, a film.
It's been done really beautifully and, like I say, M.A.C has done my shows for many years, makeup is important to my shows, I wear makeup and it's kind of let me do what I want.' Pugh (30) has been wearing makeup since he was 8.
He grew up in Sunderland, England, and excelled at ballet in particular ('like Billy Elliot'). 'You had to wear makeup for the dancing,' he says now. 'I remember my mum taking me to Boots and buying me blue eyeshadow, white eyeshadow and lots of bronzer.' Aged 16 he was forced to choose between a career in dance or fine art and opted for the latter. Following a foundation course at the City of Sunderland College he came to London, completed the BA fashion course at Central Saint Martins in 2003, and immersed himself in club culture, specifically!WOWWOW!, a creative collective located in a huge squat in Peckham where Pugh had his studio. It wasn't long before the designer was making stage costumes for Kylie Minogue and, soon after that, for Marilyn Manson.
Knitting with refuse sacks and making dresses out of balloons; fringing his signature strong shoulderline with cellophane and decorating oversized coats with pin-pricks of electric light, he showed at London Fashion Week as part of the Fashion East initiative to support young talent and then, from the autumn/winter 2005 season onwards, solo and under his own name. In 2006 he received backing from Michelle Lamy, the wife and business partner of designer Rick Owens, and his label is still produced in partnership with her, which facilitates his more recent use of considerably more upscale materials, with production values to match. In 2009, Pugh won the prestigious ANDAM award; he now shows in Paris alongside fashion's big guns, to both critical and commercial acclaim. If Gareth Pugh, the company, has grown up quickly, from purveyor of theatrical and even art-house indulgence to luxury goods brand with a menswear line, pre-collections, small leather accessories and now makeup, it's worth noting the anarchic spirit that characterised his early work is still very much in evidence.
There's never been anything shy and retiring about Pugh's vision of women - or men for that matter. Oh, and he continues to wear makeup to this day. 'Everyone has insecurities,' he says.
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'I occasionally have very bad skin and so I got into the habit of wearing makeup to disguise it. 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.' M.A.C, similarly, is not a name readily associated with the shrinking violet. 'There's instinctually a synthesis between Gareth Pugh and M.A.C as brands,' says James Gager, the cosmetic company's senior vice-president and creative director. 'M.AC loves black and Gareth loves black. We love a bit of goth; Gareth, from the beginning, has always loved a bit of goth.' More seriously: 'The main thing is that Gareth is this young, vital, progressive creative force. I feel that aligning ourselves with someone like that says a lot to both our makeup artists and our customers about the vitality of M.A.C as a brand.'
For Pugh the experience has been a good one on every level. He holds up for inspection everything from the colours themselves to a black makeup case to contain them. It's really good,' he says. 'You've got a place for your lippie and for your shaver in here.
My mum and 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 M.A.C asked me and it's a great thing to do.
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.' - INDEPENDENT.