“The look is a very pure, moisturised, iridescent glow,” said Louise Goldin, ahead of the show. ‘It was great to develop the skin finish along with the development of the clothes - so I always had the whole image of the girl in mind from the very onset.”
For hair, Paul Shannon took his influence from ‘horror girls’ (think Stephen King’s Carrie): “This season we have kept hair simple,’ he told me, ‘because the collection is quite extreme we wanted something cooler than in past seasons.”
“We have parted the hair so that one side hangs down covering the face; and I sprayed a heavy dose of hairspray at the back of the head, making the hair stick to the neck. It is quite rock ‘n’ roll.”
Hell, it seems that at Louise Goldin - rock ‘n’ roll girls can do healthy too – thanks to St. Tropez! Val Garland complemented her gunmetal doe-eyes by applying the St. Tropez gold illuminator in a C-shape around the eyes: “I wanted the girls to look like ethereal, dark fairies in the wood,” she said.
O.P.I created clean nails for the show: “We applied our hero product Clear and Strengthen to ‘sqoval’ nails [that’s a square and oval hybrid folks], then we are adding oil to the cuticle and nail for that lasting shine,” said Niki Byrne from O.P.I.
And so these futuristic creatures were ready to walk out onto the catwalk to dreamy music that gained momentum leading up to the finale backless gown, which showed off the future of skin a treat.