Vampire Inspired Fashion Week
Three vamps backstage at the Doo Ri Fall 2010 fashion show. Photo: © Luca Cannionieri
Blood red lips at Georges Chakra. Photo: Stefan Gosatti/Getty Images
The idea of a paper white pale, skeletal, and unemotional models lurking around with dark makeup on is nothing new to Fashion Week. But thanks to the apparently undying obsession with all things vampire, this lifeless beauty trend now seems to have more romanticism, and maybe even more appeal. At the Georges Chakra Fall 2010 fashion show (at right), MAC makeup artist Gregory Arlt kept models faces very pale and focused on a dark lip using MAC Diva lipstick. "The lipstick is the color of dried blood. I call it glampire beauty," he says. "The look reminds me of a 400 year old glamorous vampire that makes you ask--is she dead or alive? It's more along the lines of an Anne Rice novel rather than today's Twilight vampire." Models at the Doo Ri Fall 2010 fashion show (shown above) had blood red lips topped with glitter, bringing the glampire theme to new heights.
Sunken eyes at Cushnie et Ochs. Photo: © Luca Cannionieri
While the vampy red lip could be a real "do" for next fall, there's another version of vampire makeup that's a "don't" for most of us. The beauty look for Cushnie et Ochs (shown left) was equally undead, but focused on a sunken eye effect and the entire face didn't have a hint of blood circulation--a look definitely better left for the catwalk than the sidewalk.
Ick. The second model looks like she's been beaten, and BADLY tried to cover it... Red lips are great, but DAMN, she's pasty. It's all unbalanced. Get some color, darlin'
Why is this stupid vampire thing still going? Can we all just agree that it's unattractive?
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theres nothing wrong with being pale. theres nothing wrong with liking twilight. i for one am totally over it. they were good books, but i dont like the way its been comercialized. but the top look is way cool, it almost makes up for the suckalicious one at the bottom. the sunken eye look is UNFLATTERING on everyone!!
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Yeah, I don't mind it, even if it is a little weird. I think the makeup is good. But why does the 2nd model look like she has greasy hair? Ewwww!
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I love vampires and have loved them since eighth grade, and this watered-down 'vampiric' trash just horrifies me. If you're going to attempt vampire fashion do it right. Also, in addition to that, the fact that vampires are now being commercialized to the extent of popularization due to the the Twilight craze, a poorly written book that has transcended to movie adaptions, disgusts me. I dread the fact that Stephanie Myers, someone with so little talent, is getting this credit that Anne Rice and Bram Stoker rightfully deserve. That is all. I am no longer here.
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I hate this "vampire" trend.
The "vamp" trend, back from 1920, was much better.
I hope this vampire thing ends soon, I can't take it anymore. It's so tacky.
Posted 7:34 AM on 02/17/2010