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September 2, 2008 2:19 pm
The pretty people came out in full force on Saturday night for Australian art dealer Andy Valmorbida’s second annual Labor Day Weekend fête in Southampton. This was no ordinary end-of-summer barbecue, though: Valmorbida convinced artist Raphael Mazzucco to launch his new book “The Collected Art Book,” which boasts an introduction by Carine Roitfeld, at the party. Mazzucco was also selling some of his original art, which he produces by taking his pictures of scantily clad, beautiful women—it helps that he often works with Victoria’s Secret—and covering them in lacquer and various other layers of florescent and gilded paints. (”A hornier, more eighties Peter Beard,” was how one guest summed up the work in the sold-out show.) Meanwhile, chatting with the likes of Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, Fiona Scarry, Amanda Hearst, and Lauren Remington Platt, we stumbled across a beauty secret that one of them says will come in handy during fashion week: The trick to her dewy face was that she screwed up her makeup on purpose. We’re sworn to secrecy here (heaven forbid we divulge the identity of the girl whose messy, smoky eye isn’t as nonchalant as she would have us believe), but her tip was that after she had spent a fair amount of her evening lining, shading, shadowing, and glossing her face, just before she leaves the house she smudges it up a bit, by maybe leaving a chunk of mascara in her lashes or the corner of her eye. She compared it to how Guido Palau used to cut random chunks out of Kate Moss’ hair because she hated looking too perfect. (Yeah, we know, what a problem.) “With so many people using makeup artists and leaving their house looking absolutely immaculate,” she reasoned, “I like the idea that mine looks more casual, like I don’t really need to look that perfect and like I did it myself.” Which, we assume, she probably didn’t. Pausing for effect, she added, “If a girl’s makeup is too perfect, I think she looks like a drag queen.”
tags: Andy Valmorbida, Giovanni Russo
