NYFW Makeup Edition | NARS covers Marc Jacobs SS/15

For the NYFW Marc Jacobs Spring Summer/2015 runway show, François Nars – founder and Creative Director of NARS Cosmetics – led the beauty team backstage. The theme behind the look, in the artist’s own words:

“The look for the show features no makeup – we only applied moisturizer. With Marc we always take it to the extreme, we’ve done bold looks in the past, but this season we wanted to make a statement by not applying anything.

This goes back to one of the looks that I’ve always loved – bare skin, nothing on the face, lips or eye, just beautiful skin – I love makeup but I also love seeing women without makeup. To me, it’s a great way to show fashion. It works so well with the clothes and the hair. Who knows, maybe next season we will go back to a full face of makeup. I love having the flexibility to do this, we are not locked into applying makeup. I like the idea that what you see is what you get”

The obvious trend that has come out of several NYFW shows, is this ‘new nude/bare’ face, with NARS definitely leading the pack, as previous posts have clearly shown (see examples here & here). As I’m not a 20’s-something model with flawless skin, pulling off the no makeup look will just leave me looking unfinished, but I definitely appreciate the simplicity behind it all, leaving the focus to remain clearly on the clothes. There’s also something quite liberating about just slapping on some moisturizer/lip balm then heading out the door – a look I basically recreate every morning before driving my daughter to the train, but not one I’m about to embrace for an event any time soon. Unless that event happens to be at the beach.