Talk to you later blush boots8/10/2023 Photo: Ben Broomfield / Courtesy of Molly Goddard And really, in these world-weary times, who couldn’t use a dash of eroticized innocence-an emotional flurry, conjuring a quick flush to the face? We, the very, very lucky ones, have survived a global pandemic, and yet a lingering malaise may leave us wondering what exactly we are living for. Westwood said her collection was inspired by Boucher’s Daphnis and Chloe, a painting based upon the ancient Greek tale of a shepherd and shepherdess who fall in love without knowing what love is. And then there were the sweet roseate patches, reminiscent of 18th-century portraits by François Boucher or Thomas Gainsborough, that adorned the cheeks of damsels wearing Vivienne Westwood’s signature drunken tailoring, along with tricorn hats, pin curls, and Prince-of-Wales-plaid platform boots, in the designer’s exquisite mash-up of historical styles for the rentrée. This was blush as defiant as armor, jolting and vibrant. Otherworldly pink parentheses, stretching from brow to cheekbone, also framed the faces of models wearing Molly Goddard’s fall 2021 tartans and Fair Isle sweaters for day, or her tulle party frocks for evening. The look was “punky, almost rebellious,” Pica tells me, “tough and soft at the same time,” and a tribute to the New Romantics of the 1980s. On the Chanel cruise runway, makeup artist Lucia Pica draped intense pink tints from models’ cheekbones all the way up across their temples. But this is not your grandmother’s rouge. These days, after years of heavy-handed “shake and bake” contouring, fashion is embracing the freshness of blush anew. Is there any makeup more ephemeral than blush, or whose promise, through the ages, has proved more alluring? “They wish to find the springtime of their earliest years hiding in a pot of rouge,” an 18th-century social critic observed of the ladies at the court of Versailles, whose vermilion cheeks, floridly blooming in artificially snow-white complexions, signaled their allegiance to the aristocracy.
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