Golden Child
By Julie Naughton Meet Chanel?s new baby: its fall 2008 color collection, the first under Chanel?s new creative director of makeup, Peter Philips. It will be out in July ? followed by Philips? holiday collection, slated for October, which will continue the gold rush.
Chanel is betting on striking gold with its fall 2008 color cosmetics collection, the first created by Peter Philips, the house?s new creative director of makeup.
Philips, who replaced Dominique Moncourtois and Heidi Morawetz in January, is using gold as a major theme for his first collection. ?This line is my first little step into Chanel,? said Philips, who spent a year and a half working closely with Moncourtois and Morawetz to ensure a smooth transition. ?It sounds very clich?, but it was the apartment on the Rue Cambon where Coco worked and lived that really inspired this first collection. The apartment is so cozy, with lots of warm brown, bronzes and golds; an elegant gold-framed mirror, and a rough crystal chandelier. They all ended up in this collection in some way ? whether it is a reflective surface, or a color.?
The collection, due on counter in July, includes Gold Fiction, a softly shimmering nail polish, $30; Facettes D?Or, a finely milled gold loose powder that reads on the skin as a subtle glow, $56; Gold Light Glossimer lip gloss, $26; Rouge Hydrabase lipstick shades in copper, plum and coral, each $27, and a quad eye shadow palette with gold, coffee, ivory and dark green eye colors, $56.
Chanel marketers are hyping the gold nail polish as the next Vamp or Black Satin ? but Philips, for one, is philosophical. ?I don?t like to dictate looks,? he said. ?When Dominique and Heidi wanted to do black, they did black. When they wanted to do blue, they did blue. I wanted to do gold. Sometimes you can come up with something insane and over-the-top, but it has to attract women, as well. If you proposed black nail polish to a marketing-driven company, they wouldn?t have done it. But they follow the trends, not start them.?
Philips, a longtime editorial makeup artist, got into the field ?spontaneously.?
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