It’s Nomad’s Land at Malandrino!
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that it is New York Fashion Week! Yep, that’s why all of your favorite hotspots have been taken over by gorgeous, Amazonian women who shouldn’t be drinking that champagne because they’re only 17! Guys…you’re also not supposed to FEED THE MODELS. Come on now – do I have to smack your hands?
I’ve had the pleasure of covering NYFW, backstage, for MAC Cosmetics, Phyto Haircare and Creative Nail Design. So far I have only been backstage for a few shows because my day job takes priority (unemployment is sooooo 2009), but I did make it to Malandrino today and here’s a short beauty blip for Fall/Winter 2010:
Lots of leather! Don’t put those leggings, motorcycle jackets and skirts away just yet. Leather is still going to be BIG next year and it’s even creeping onto the nails. How, you ask? The theme of Catherine Malandrino’s presentation was Mongolian Nomads. There was a lot of fur and beautifully textured leather. The hair was swept up into a tree formation and the eyes were really exotic – MEOW – so Catherine wanted a nail that picked up on the story of the nomad in Mongolia and to pick up on an element of the fabric in her beauty statement – enter the Bark Manicure.
CND’s fearless and fierce Style Director, Jan Arnold, laid down one coat of Dark Ruby, which is a rich, luminous, dark ruby color, followed by a coat of Copper Shimmer – the minerality washes out and lightens the ruby hue – it was then topped off with one coat of SuperMatte Top Coat. Before the polish was dry, Jan took a round, flat makeup applicator pad and lightly dabbed the top of the nail to texturize the polish and give it a beautifully treated, leather-like appearance.
There ya have it – leather is still IN and the look for Fall extends all the way to the fingertips!
