Makeup Beat

I was invited to the launch of the new IMAN Luxury Radiance Liquid Makeup Enriched with Minerals for all skin tones from Sand to Clay to Earth. Formulated with plant extracts Acai, Magnolia, and Vit. E in eight shades to even out the skin while adding luminosity. The foundation comes with it’s own applicator brush too.
Creative director/makeup artist BYRON BARNES showed how it enhanced the skin tones of three different models and works along with IMAN’s “Second to None” Cover Creme and Semi-Loose Powder to perfection.

MODEL DISPLAY: Iman, who is receiving the Fashion Icon Award at this year’s CFDA Fashion Awards, will get a special gift for the occasion — her own Barneys New York windows. To mark the award, Barneys creative director Simon Doonan is dedicating two of the store’s Madison Avenue windows to the model and, this being Doonan, there will be no shortage of fantasy. One window will be plastered with collages and decoupages of images of the model and feature Iman’s name spelled out in “Ben Hur lettering,” Doonan said, while the other window will display a Bruce Weber portrait of Iman with quotes about her from notables — both living and dead — from RuPaul (“Iman is the woman who first inspired the phrase ‘You Betta Work’”) to Diana Vreeland (“Now that’s a neck!”) and David Bowie (“Iman is my wife!”).

Amber Valetta by photog Steven Miesel.

Photographer Douglas Dubler and I did this shot as a test for our portfolios.

Love thy self….

REVLON 1950s.

Daria Werbowy by Ben Hassett

A photographic commission – Donut, Kym – for Vivienne Westwood’s On Liberty collection 1994, made for Vivienne Westwood by Dutch duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, used in a calendar and advertising campaign of brand, will be sold for £12,000-15,000 – along with other works created by celebrated photographers – during the first auction of Bohams’ new photography department which will be held in London, at New Bond Street on 20th May 2010.

CHANEL