When dreaming up this conceptual makeup look at Preen, makeup artist Sam Bryant's starting point was both the gold in the collection and photos the designer showed her of Renaissance statues of the Virgin Mary. "The statues we were marble, and so they were very shiny," said Bryant, who translated that backstage by highlighting the models's skin with M.A.C.'s new Strobe Glaze (out this Autumn), a balmy-gloss version of their iconic Strobe Cream luminiser.
Bryant then broke out the gold leaf, covering most of the models' ears with the stuff, but then also adding it to the faces of two or three models, as you see here. "The placement was inspired by those statues we were looking at, which had these gold chords running across their foreheads," Bryant explained.