Backstage At New York Fashion Week
LatestNew York fashion week wrapped up yesterday after nine days of designer shows and presentations, and intrepid photographer Arianna Reiche did the backstage rounds for Jezebel. Read on for tips from makeup artists, models making faces, actually fewer cigarettes than one might expect, and painful footwear.
Here, a model eating backstage at Costello Tagliapietra.
Models reading.
Peruvian Juana Burga talking to one of the other models walking in the Costello Tagliapietra show.
Singer Corinne Bailey Rae and Miss J. of America’s Next Top Model fame sat in the front row.
A hairdresser fixes a model’s ‘do.
Head or “key” make-up artist Lottie at the Cynthia Rowley show. Lottie — no last name — is a Californian who cut her teeth in foggy old London and has keyed shows in just about every fashion capital on the globe. While the models were stuck in terror-threat traffic, we had a chance to talk shop (and by “shop,” I mean my face).
Jez: What are the biggest mistakes we tend to make with our faces?
Lottie: Picking the wrong foundation color, going to bed without washing your face, not moisturizing.