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39 Standout Beauty Looks From Paris Fashion Week
A beauty look from the Altuzarra Fall 2021 presentation. Photo: Imaxtree
The Fall 2021 shows came to a close this week in Paris, rounding out another somewhat subdued, strange season. As designers showcased their latest collections in the French fashion capitol, backstage glam teams brought creativity and beauty inspiration in full force (as best they could during a pandemic, anyhow).
For the Chanel presentation, Avril Lavigne-style center parts, stick-straight hair and thick, black eyeliner defined the beauty look. Moody eyeliner took a more elevated turn at Dior, where makeup artist Peter Philips created a sooty smoky eye. “I wanted the eyes to be dark and poetic, in harmony with the mysterious, fairy tale atmosphere of this collection,” he said of the look via a release from the brand.
Makeup was even bolder for the Giambattista Valli and Altuzarra presentations: Both featured artful, multi-colored eye makeup. The former relied on unique, painterly designs that ranged from watercolor-like to finger-painting-adjacent; the latter (shown above) transformed models' foreheads and eyebrows into glowing, alien-like focal points.
As for hair, many of the looks we saw on runways and in presentations celebrated natural hair textures and easy, lived-in looking styles. Hat hair was also a dominant trend, with models at Akris topping undone styles with baseball caps and ski caps, beanies and bucket hats also making appearances at Chanel and Longchamp, among others.
In the galleries below, our roundup of standout beauty looks from the Fall 2021 Paris runways — or lookbooks, or virtual presentations, or… whatever. Click through to see all of the hair and makeup ideas we’re most definitely adding to our inspiration boards. (In case you missed our roundup of standout beauty looks from New York Fashion Week or Milan Fashion week, you can check them out here and here, respectively.)
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Are You Ready For Teddybearcore?
Your buzzword for autumn/winter 2021? Après-ski. The fashion powers at Chanel and Miu Miu have spoken: prepare for padded outerwear from head to toe and embrace the solace of huggable, teddy-bear fuzz. Your new season outlook is all about holding on to that warm feeling inside.
From the rise of teddybearcore to extreme winter sportswear (with a Mrs Prada twist) and the return of ’60s silhouettes: this is your breakdown of the standout trends from Paris Fashion Week autumn/winter 2021.
The trend: teddybearcore
Miu Miu autumn/winter 2021, Chanel autumn/winter 2021, Rokh autumn/winter 2021, Coperni autumn/winter 2021.
Where we’ve seen it:
Miu Miu, Chanel, Coperni, Rokh
What you need to know:
Mrs Prada chose Italy’s alpine slopes (the ultra-chic ski village, Cortina d’Ampezzo, to be precise) for Miu Miu’s adventuring autumn/winter 2021 show, delivering a collection that was as much about the restorative power of the outdoors as vintage winter-sports style. “Nature is the one thing that heals you,” Prada told Vogue. “I love mountain adventures.”
The lineup of teddy-bear tracksuits and faux-fuzz yeti boots begged to be cuddled. As do Chanel’s ‘soft toy’ skirt suits, which push the notion of comfort dressing into a whole new realm.
The trend: top-to-toe knits 2.0
Altuzarra autumn/winter 2021, Chloé autumn/winter 2021, Jil Sander autumn/winter 2021.
Where we’ve seen it:
Chloé, Altuzarra, Jil Sander
What you need to know:
The image of a pensive Maggie Maurer lounging in bundles of Altuzarra knitwear for the label’s autumn/winter 2021 lookbook is likely to strike a chord (imagine the bag is a laptop). Enveloping knits have been a faithful friend to all of us this past year, typically when hunched over screens late into the evening. Many of us also enjoy a ‘Netflix shawl’ (aka the blanket/enormous sweater you reach for when there is nothing to do but binge-watch Behind Her Eyes), and why not? Good knitwear delivers on many levels, as Gabriela Hearst’s sustainable Chloé debut confirmed.
The trend: the return of the mod
Louis Vuitton autumn/winter 2021, Courrèges autumn/winter 2021, Versace autumn/winter 2021.
Where we’ve seen it:
Louis Vuitton, Versace, Courrèges
What you need to know:
As any Depop addict worth their salt will tell you, the return of the super-mini has been in the works for a long time. The difference for autumn/winter 2021, however, is that it’s the ’60s (rather than the ’00s) that’s going to be your key reference point.
The A-line silhouettes and remixed go-go boots at Louis Vuitton set the mod girl 2.0’s wardrobe agenda. Rather than a literal throwback, the new-era mod look comes with offbeat sportswear (note the deconstructed flight jacket). Ditto at Courrèges, where the house’s original swinging style has undergone a refit, courtesy of new creative director Nicolas Di Felice (spot the baseball cap). The designer boasts an impressive CV, with stints at Balenciaga and Louis Vuitton alongside Nicolas Ghesquière, and Christian Dior under Raf Simons. In the words of Vogue’s Nicole Phelps, “Courrèges’s ’60s futurism has been filtered through Di Felice’s child-of-the-’90s eyes.”
The trend: extreme winter sports
Miu Miu autumn/winter 2021, Chanel autumn/winter 2021, Balmain autumn/winter 2021.
Where we’ve seen it:
Miu Miu, Chanel, Balmain
What you need to know:
Remember when everyone was up in arms that there were so many XXL puffer jackets on the runways? Lol. Chanel salopettes and Miu Miu ski suits are just the tip of an extreme-sports-style wave that’s destined to hit your wardrobe come autumn 2021 as our love of the outdoors (and wilderness pursuits) continues to influence the way we dress.
Virginie Viard dialled up the après-ski mood for her Coco Neige collection, switching Paris’s vaulted Grand Palais for the intimate surroundings of legendary nightclub, Castel (made famous by the coterie of rock stars, models and royalty who became regulars in the ’60s and ’70s).
The secret to 2021’s extreme winter dressing? Pay attention to what you wear underneath. At Chanel, even the design of the shoes took account of the need to shed layers when stepping indoors. As Vogue’s Hamish Bowles noted, “Viard’s shaggy Moon Boots turn out to be double layered so that the voluminous shearling can be removed to reveal a sleeker boot beneath.”
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