PETER PHILIPS’ instructions for creating the beauty look at Chanel’s airline-inspired couture show? “The brief I had from Karl Lagerfeld was ‘blue’ and ‘make sure the models don’t look like stewardesses,’” revealed the creative director of Chanel Make-up.
“In combination with the hair statements, it was the most flattering and contemporary for the models to have a simple kohl eye look. But instead of going for black kohl, I created a few blue alternatives for this flight.”
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Philips created an exclusive collection, Blue Illusion, for the show, including two new Illusion D’Ombre shades – Apparition and Destination – which he blended to create the eye make-up. “Apparition is an intense, greyish blue that I applied on top of the eye pencil, fading out towards the outer corner of the eye, and Destination is a pale, silvery satin blue that I used on the inner corner of the eye and under the eyebrow.”
The new collection also includes a Le Crayon Yeux Precision Eye Definer in Bleu Arien and, yes, a new Le Vernis shade – Sky Line.
“It’s a beautiful, easy to apply, pearly (on the edge of metallic) shade that matched perfectly with the range of blues that Karl used for this haute couture collection”.
Blue Illusion will be available from selected retailers from July 2012.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) C Youthful state governor Henrique Capriles won Venezuela’s first-ever opposition primary vote by a wide margin on Sunday, emerging as the single candidate who will try to end President Hugo Chavez’s 13 years in power.
Capriles, the 39-year-old governor of Miranda state, faces a tough task in ousting Chavez, a charismatic campaigner with a loyal following and the full powers of the state to back his candidacy in Oct. 7 elections.
Opposition election chief Teresa Albanes announced the preliminary results, saying that Capriles won about 62 percent of the vote, beating Zulia state Gov. Pablo Perez by a margin of more than 30 percentage points.
Chavez’s opponents lined up to vote in many areas, surpassing most expectations with a turnout of about 2.9 million ballots cast out of Venezuela’s 18 million registered voters.
Capriles had been the front-runner in pre-election polls among five contenders, presenting a younger, energetic alternative to the 57-year-old Chavez, who has recently battled cancer.
“He’s going to be the candidate who can get us out of this giant hole we’re stuck in,” said Carmen Gloria Padilla, a 66-year-old telephone company employee who voted for him.
Hundreds of supporters celebrated the win outside Capriles’ campaign headquarters, holding small flags emblazoned with the slogan “There is a way.” Fireworks exploded in the sky above the crowd.
Some of Capriles’ supporters said they think he has a good chance of winning over Venezuelans who otherwise might lean pro-Chavez because he has taken a largely non-confrontational approach while promising solutions to problems including 26-percent inflation and one of the highest murder rates in Latin America.
Diego Prada, a 23-year-old marketing manager, said he thinks Capriles’ inclusive approach offers a much better shot against Chavez than other competitors who have taken a hard line against the president.
“People are tired of so much confrontation,” Prada said. As for Capriles, he said, “he has a message of unity.”
The once-divided opposition has gained popularity in recent years, and the race could end up being the toughest re-election bid of Chavez’s career.
The lefist president easily won re-election with 63 percent of the vote in 2006, but since then his popularity has declined, in part due to ills including crime and economic troubles.
Chavez’s approval ratings have topped 50 percent in recent polls, and his struggle last year with cancer doesn’t appear to have hurt his popularity. The president says he’s cancer-free after undergoing surgery and chemotherapy last year, and has been energetic in his hours-long television appearances, apparently trying to show he can still keep up with a younger challenger.
Chavez remains a hero to many of his supporters and maintains a visceral connection to a significant segment of the poor in Venezuela. He also will use the full powers of his government and a bonanza of public spending to try to ensure a victory in the Oct. 7 election.
Chavez has already kicked his campaign machinery into gear. He has increased government spending by launching new social programs that offer cash benefits for the poor and invested heavily in new railways, public housing and cable car systems in Venezuela’s sprawling hillside slums. As the election nears, he will inaugurate other big-ticket projects that grab attention, including the planned launch of Venezuela’s second Chinese-made satellite shortly before the October vote.
But Chavez has warned voters that if they don’t re-elect him, his social programs called “missions” would vanish. That threat, though disputed by Capriles, could have an influence on some in the run-up to the vote.
For the opposition, the primary showed its ability to mobilize voters, a key asset in its efforts to compete with Chavez. Lines formed on Sunday at polling stations in some poor neighborhoods that have traditionally been pro-Chavez strongholds.
“I decided to come to vote to express my complete unhappiness. In these 12 years, the country has gone downhill,” said Ruben Rodriguez, a 59-year-old construction worker who was waiting in line to vote.

EDIE CAMPBELL was given one of the ultimate modelling accolades on Tuesday, when she closed the Chanel spring/summer 2012 couture show – but the experience was nearly all too much.
“Well I didn’t really realise that it was a big deal until I was told by a few people just how important the wedding dress is,” she told us. “And I wasn’t nervous until about two minutes before I had to go on, at which point I nearly did a runner – but I’d probably be a bit obvious sprinting into the distance wearing a wedding dress.”
The “bride” is typically thought to be the most important look of a couture show, and allows the designer to demonstrate their most intricate and impressive techniques – and Campbell fully understood the responsibility of wearing such a dress.
“I’m very flattered and a little confused,” said Campbell of her role. “There were 25 people assigned to making that wedding dress and I had to try to animate all those hours of labour, so in that sense the model is important.”
Currently represented by Viva London, Campbell was suitably impressed by Lagerfeld’s latest Chanel offering, which took blue as its primary theme.
“I’d wear head-to-toe blue every day if it didn’t make me look like a Smurf, so yes, it’s right up my street!” she laughed.
Another Chanel muse and the label’s latest campaign star, Alice Dellal, also offered her praise for the iconic designer.
“He was so nice and so genuine,” she said in an interview for Chanel. “I wasn’t surprised by how genuine and cool he was because you can tell that, but to be able to talk to him and share the same opinions was really nice. [The campaign] was such a good experience – I’ll remember it forever.”
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The British model fronts the house’s new handbag line – previously modelled by Lily Allen, Vanessa Paradis and Blake Lively.
“It’s so weird and so unexpected,” Dellal explained said of her new role. “I’d never thought I’d so something like this. I don’t want to compare myself to the other girls who have done this, but they’re all really different and so am I.”

PUYALLUP, Wash. (AP) C Volunteers sifted through tons of paper at a recycling center Sunday, hoping to find items that Josh Powell may have dumped before killing himself and his two sons in a house fire last week.
The search, involving about 20 people from Pierce County Search and Rescue, was expected to last all day.
“What happened last weekend really affected me. I could see smoke from the home from here,” the recycling center’s manager, Don Taylor, told KOMO News. “It would make me feel good if they found something here that could help answer questions about this whole terrible thing.”
Powell was the husband of missing Utah woman Susan Powell. He attacked his 5- and 7-year-old sons with a hatchet last Sunday, when a social worker brought the boys to his home for what was a supervised visit, and then ignited the house in a gas-fueled inferno.
Some investigators have called the act an admission of guilt in his wife’s death, but they’re still looking for evidence on that front. They also located a storage locker where Powell had stashed a comforter that tested positive for the presence of blood in an initial test. Further lab tests are pending.
Authorities received a tip that Josh Powell may have dumped some papers at the LRI recycling center in the days just before the deaths.
The volunteers arrived Sunday morning and began searching through more than 20,000 pounds of recycled paper, junk mail and newspapers.
A Pierce County sheriff’s officer oversaw the effort.
Susan Powell disappeared Dec. 6, 2009, while the Powells were still living in West Valley City, Utah.
Josh Powell always claimed that on the night his wife disappeared he had taken his young sons on a midnight camping trip in subfreezing temperatures in the Utah desert, and that he knew nothing of her whereabouts.
Less than a month after the disappearance, Powell moved the boys to his father’s home in Puyallup, south of Seattle.
Powell lost custody of his sons to his wife’s parents late last year, after police said they had found child pornography on his father’s computer. He later moved to the home outside Puyallup where he killed his sons Feb. 5.

PATRICK DEMARCHELIER, Nick Knight and Josh Olins are among those paying tribute to Lancme by contributing to the beauty brand’s Rses by… exhibition of photographs at The Savoy in London this weekend.
Having had the rose as its emblem since 1935, Lancme – which is the official make-up sponsor of this weekend’s BAFTA Awards – has asked 20 of the world’s best-known photographers to create their own interpretation of the classic flower. The results range from Peter Lindbergh’s black and white shot to Demarchelier’s image of a single rose nestled between a model’s legs.
“We are honoured that 20 of the greatest photographers, all of whom have ties to Lancme, have accepted our invitation to interpret Lancme’s emblem, the rose,” said Youcef Nabi, president of Lancme International. “Rses by& awakens the senses and poses questions concerning the concept of beauty. It will, I hope, contribute to the world of the arts and at the same time add an exciting chapter to Lancme’s story.”
The exhibition is open to the public at The Savoy on February 11 from 10am to 4pm. It will then tour the world until late 2012.

IT may have only recently hit stores, but Stella McCartney has already deemed her new fragrance L.I.L.Y “unfashionable” – after choosing lily of the valley as a key ingredient.
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“[Lily of the valley] is rather unfashionable, it’s a flower that’s disappeared in the world or fragrance. And I love that it’s a seasonal flower, I find it amazing it comes out at one point of the year then it’s gone – I think there’s something really precious about that,” McCartney told Alexandra Shulman, in an interview at London’s Selfridges last night. “I love that the smell is fleeting and wanted to somehow describe that moment.”
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And McCartney was quick to admit that she’s a perfectionist when it comes to creating fragrances.
“This fragrance was supposed to take a year to make, and it took about three,” she explained. “I always take long as I get very involved and precise about getting a great smell. Then I get really obsessed about making a bottle that’s a beautiful object, that I want in my house and is something I am proud of in my bathroom.”
L.I.L.Y is available at Selfridges now and nationwide from February 15.