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Tom Pecheux for Marithé & François Girbaud

The face behind the make-up

The look: "Marithé and François told me that they wanted the girl to look very young, very healthy, fresh but with something else on top of it. So I thought of a sunburned look with blushy cheeks."

French make-up artist. Tom Pecheux, started 

The approach: "There's a very light foundation to cover all the imperfections - if there are any – and no powder. I've used a couple of sticks from Françoise Nars which are very shimmery, glowing, like Wai Ki Ki and Palm Beach bronzing stick and I mixed them together to achieve that freshness. I applied it on the cheeks and also on the bridge of the nose. Also a little bit of dark brown gloss - from Nars as well - called Calcutta of which I put only a few drops on the lips and blend in with my finger afterwards. In this way they look humid and a little bit tanned as well. There’s nothing on the eyes and, that’s it!"

out as Linda Cantello's assistant and has gone on to make a name for himself. He has done the make-up on ad campaigns for Gucci, Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein; as well as shows for Costume National and Valentino among others.

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The concept: "Marithé and François Girbaud are doing different things with straps on their clothes. Other people now are also experimenting with straps, buttons... So I used some straps to wrap the hair. The idea was to do it as if you had had to run out the door and had wanted to put your hair up and not look like an old lady with a chignon. So we just wrapped it up with elastics as if preparing a parcel, a gift."

The approach: "I used stretch shoelace. It was sent to me from Italy because I wasn't able to find any in NY. The hair has got a little touch of ethnical. It would be a cone head like the ones they have in Africa. But, this time, I didn’t want to type it as such, so that people would say "Oh, it’s African" or, "it’s the other..." I wanted to have a mix of all that. 

In a sense it could also be Renaissance, but during that time they would have done it perfect, whereas we gave it a spontaneous touch.

I think that in the fashion business people are not spontaneous at all. There is too much of "what is good this season is what's best to sell a certain fashion." Forget all that, because it kills creativity. I don’t mean [to say] that I am more creative than others are, rather that these designers and I are at least trying to have a bit of fun.

The hair, as we've done it, also reflects a mix of the different social classes. In this way, it sends out the message that there is not a certain type of person who wears Girbaud. It’s not just blacks, who wear it, or the sports peopled, it’s a bit of everybody.

I’ve known both of them for fifteen years and that is what they have in mind. They’ve been global in their minds way before anybody, so I’ve tried to translate that unto the hair."

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