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Molloy, Director of Artistry for Asia and Pacific at M.A.C Cosmetics

Interview with James Molloy, Director of Artistry for Asia and Pacific at M.A.C Cosmetics backstage at the Jenny Fax fashion show S/S 2012 in Tokyo We interviewed James Molloy, Director of Artistry for Asia and Pacific at M.A.C Cosmetics, backstage at the Jenny Fax S/S 2012 Fashion Show, at the Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo. With James Molloy we talked about the make-up for this show and about the latest trends in make-up, the make-up trends we can find in his very personal re-interpretation for this very interesting and original fashion show.
What was the inspiration for the make-up look for the Jenny Fax fashion show spring summer 2012?
The inspiration for this show is a kind of social theme. It is about, let's say, the ladder in school. Everybody knows that at school we usually have the popular girls and then you sometimes also have the less popular girl who is probably in heavy music, and she doesn't fit the social norm. The whole idea was beautiful on the inside as well as on the outside, so perhaps this girl is bullied a little bit by the popular girls.
This idea really pays well for the make-up look. For the popular girls we did an almost too perfect looking skin and dolly lips and eyelashes. Everything is really sweet looking. And then, to give it the edge we used a really bright vivid red color for the eyes. This gives the beautiful girl this kind of coldness. They are beautiful but they are actually quite cold sometimes. And then we have the other girl. She is kind of into heavy metal, into Kiss and she wears the Kiss mask.
As an overall concept it really reads trough to high school life, to teenage life and how hard this life can be sometimes. When everyone else seems perfect, you may be the different one but that is doesn't mean it is not right. When Jenny Fax told me the inspiration for her show I thought it was a really interesting concept for the make-up.