MAC's long awaited collaboration with Parisian couture house Emanuel Ungaro hits counters on October 2. Here's an interview with designer Esteban Cortazar on the collaboration:
A: “This first collection has to be the start of my celebration of effortless seduction and unapologetic femininity for Ungaro. Everything brings me back to this message.”
Q: What do you love about the Ungaro aesthetic?
A: “What is so great for me to be at Ungaro is that the aesthetic of the house comes so naturally to me. It feels organically right. I want to continue to experiment with beautiful prints, fluidity and colours and stamp these on to my collections.”
Q: Who is the Ungaro woman?
A: “The Ungaro woman celebrates life, she loves nature, she smells fantastic, like peonies, gardenias and jasmine in a subtle way that’s so feminine. She adores feminine fluidity, beautiful colours, soft textures and unexpected prints – she’s a true individual with her style, a free spirit.”
Q: Who are your muses?
A: “All my girlfriends are my muses – women who love to dance, to laugh.”
Q: What was on your mood boards this season?
A: “My mood board for the show was pretty simple as I only had three months to put together the collection. I had images of Verushka from “transfigurations” where she becomes part of nature, blended into wood or river stones. I looked at these images and thought they’d be amazing prints.”
Q: Did you have any preconceived ideas as to what feeling you’d like the makeup to communicate this season?
A: “Makeup is a huge part of a feminine woman who uses it to express her individuality and her mood. This season i wanted the makeup to come across as very natural and balanced…although natural can still have a strength to it. I wanted everything to be soft in the face. A little earth in the eye, to give it weight, but in a subtle way.”
Q: What direction did you give regarding casting the show? What sort of girls were you looking for?
A: “Casting the show, I wanted girls who were like creatures of nature in a very soft way. Some were sexier, some were softer, but all have an organic feel to them.”
Q: How you must be excited to be collaborating with M·A·C on this range – how long have you worked together?
A: “I’m so excited about the collaboration with M·A·C – they are so forward-thinking and so believing. They believed in me from my first show since i was friends with all the girls from the Miami store. I really feel part of the M·A·C family.”
Q: Knowing that this makeup collection will have the Ungaro name to it, what was most important to you in terms of it’s aesthetic?
A: “It’s important to me that the makeup feels timeless-modern, but still makeup that a woman will always want to wear.”
What do you think? Will you be hitting the MAC counter on October 2 to check out the Ungaro collection?
1 comments:
interesting, and am looking forward to checking it out.
But what's up with the side boob cleavage? yeesh, since when does ungaro show this off? Otherwise, the dress is pretty!
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