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True Colors

The perfect runway face is not just a result of inspiration -- it's a collaboration, between makeup artist and fashion designer. By Dick Page

When a designer and a makeup artist click, it's like champagne and caviar -- each partner makes the other better than he would be alone. Narciso Rodriguez and I have been collaborating for more than a decade, and it has been a great fit. His clothes tend to be pared down and subdued in a beautiful way, he loves color on the face, and he's always ready to try something new. The teamwork starts at a meeting a day or so before the show. The designer may throw out a concept for me to interpret (e.g., "I want something very Charlie's Angels"), or we might just try a bunch of different things. Occasionally the process is sheer agony. One designer kept us in the studio for three days while she rejected look after look after look. She wasn't "feeling the colors," or this one looked like a "peasant" and that one like a "whore." I kept wanting to remind her that this ...

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