The Advice Sisters Fall 2009 Fashion Week Features - Tory Burch, Backstage

*text and photographs by Alison Blackman Dunham

 

 

Tory Burch is not just a fashion designer,  she's also a celebrity and a socialite. Her designs, popular with an upscale audience, were influenced by her life with glamorous parents who were part of the Hollywood celebrity culture and Philadelphia society.  Her fashion label was launched in 2004 and  she has won several fashion awards for her designs.  She's known for her modern-preppy,  pretty designs, bright tunics, bold accessories, and colorful Reva ballet flats. However, for Fall, 2009, Burch tones down the color and ramps up the "edgy" look with sexy but wearable fashions for day to evening, featuring boots, studs, and tailored sportswear and dresses.

 

Hair and makeup must coordinate with the looks. For Tory Burch's Fall 2009 presentation at the Prince George Ballroom, hair stylist Yannick D'Is created the look for Redken.  The concept for Tory's presentation was youthful but glamorous, natural, but a bit edgy.

For the Hair, Yannick designed a side part that was a bit asymmetrical, with lots of texture in the hair.   The loose, long style accomplished the goal of being "natural" (with a great stylist's touch, of course) but artfully undone.  "Amazing, but accessible, not crazy" is how Yannick explained it.  The key product in this look is Redken's Fabricate 03, applied after hair was curled with a hot iron.  This styling product protect hair from hair styling tools and is a popular staple backstage at Fashion Week.

  

The Model's hair was left "set" until just time for the presentation, then loosely brushed out into luxurious, shiny, flowing waves reminiscent of Veronica Lake or, perhaps, Jessica Rabbit. "Waves are going to be big for Fall 2009" says Yannick, so get your products and curling irons, ready. You can create a modified version of this look with a large-barrel curling iron, Fabricate 03 by Redken, and a little patience!

 

  

The loose, textured hair balanced the strong eye and slightly sparkly face makeup created by makeup artist Diane Kendal for M.A.C. Cosmetics.

 

 

The makeup look called for a smoky black eye with "Smoulder"  pencil underneath the eye, and a  and black gold shimmer shadow called "Gilt."  The look features no mascara ("No mascara gives the face an edgier look" says Diane Kendal). The skin was flattered by M.A.C. Studio Sculpt Foundation , tried and tweaked by makeup artists at numerous test runs backstage at Fashion week in previous seasons. The blush, called 'Hand Finish," is a glorious peach with flecks of gold shimmer. Concealer was used to nude out the model's lips, after which a new M.A.C. Cremesheen Glass called  "Boy Bait," was applied. It' a sheer, nude/pink Lip Gloss and hands-down, the most popular one used on runways for Fall 2009 was applied (it'll be a must-have for your makeup bag).

 

  The polished look is feminine,  sexy, but still natural and not overly fussy. The hair and makeup look beautiful, and work nicely with the Tory Burch fashions. 

 

for a review of the Tory Burch Presentation go to: http://www.advicesisters.net/Features/FWtoryburchpresentation.html

 

 

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