![]() ![]() This was blush as defiant as armor, jolting and vibrant. Otherworldly pink parentheses, stretching from brow to cheekbone, also framed the faces of models wearing Molly Goddard’s fall 2021 tartans and Fair Isle sweaters for day, or her tulle party frocks for evening. ![]() The look was “punky, almost rebellious,” Pica tells me, “tough and soft at the same time,” and a tribute to the New Romantics of the 1980s. On the Chanel cruise runway, makeup artist Lucia Pica draped intense pink tints from models’ cheekbones all the way up across their temples. ![]() But this is not your grandmother’s rouge. These days, after years of heavy-handed “shake and bake” contouring, fashion is embracing the freshness of blush anew. Is there any makeup more ephemeral than blush, or whose promise, through the ages, has proved more alluring? “They wish to find the springtime of their earliest years hiding in a pot of rouge,” an 18th-century social critic observed of the ladies at the court of Versailles, whose vermilion cheeks, floridly blooming in artificially snow-white complexions, signaled their allegiance to the aristocracy. ![]()
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