Perfection Takes to the Runway at Marios Schwab

“One word I associate with Marios Schwab is perfection,’ said St. Tropez’s CEO Michelle Feeney, at the designer’s Autumn/Winter 2010 fashion show. ‘And St. Tropez is about perfecting skin, so the two work well together.”

At Schwab’s show today there was a heady whirl backstage, as each part of the perfect jigsaw puzzle was carefully fixed into place.

Make-up artist Petros Petrohilos went for a minimal Nineties complexion: “it is a very plain, flawless base’ he said, mapping out a figure of eight around the model’s face. ‘We will apply St. Tropez Radiance Mousse to give a really reflective finish to the cheek bone; take out the lips with a foundation; and then apply a lip gloss to the eyes making them ultra-glossy.”

Adam Reed had a job detangling the model’s hair as some had turned up with beehives, from an earlier show. “We are prepping the hair to make it smooth,” he demonstrated, pulling straighteners through a girl’s mane. ‘The simplicity will not take away anything from the clothes,” he added whilst braided a fishtail plait down her back.

Schwab’s collection contorted formal daywear by giving it a modern and sultry twist. This pays homage to his entirely female set of fashion college classmates. Lines were fluid and nipped in at the waist, and hemlines fell just shy of the knee.

“It is all about the leg,’ said skin perfecting expert Nichola Joss. ‘St. Tropez’s Perfect Legs give dimension, without shimmer to winter skin; so we are applying this on top of an even layer of our Wash Off Mousse.”

As always the basecoat hides blemishes and imperfections on the skin, something that is all too obvious under the harsh show lights and flashing cameras bulbs.

“It was so great to work again with St. Tropez,’ said Schwab, as the girls stood in the line-up ready for their catwalk exit. ‘This season we have created beautiful illusions with the skin - an almost alien melting to form with the body of the girl. It is very suitable and very slight.”

“That is definitely a colour I’d go for if I had a bare winter leg,” whispered Melanie Rickey, Grazia’s fashion editor-at-large, as the models trotted passed.

“It will surprise people that we are sponsoring Autumn/Winter shows, said Feeney, ‘but it is all about a polished finished look, however much skin is showing.”

Laura Craik, Fashion Editor at The Evening Standard, was indeed surprised that a tan had been used at Schwab’s show, although she did notice how flawless the model’s looked: “It is very subtle and light,’ she said – ‘what a refreshing change from some of the orange Z-list celebrities you see at the moment.”

 

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