Inge Grognard, Makeup 1989-2005 book honours make-up artist

Inge Grognard, Make-up 1989-2005 is a brand new guide from the younger publishing home  Zegris Books that showcases the early profession work of make-up’s nice iconoclast. Inge Grognard’s profession launched within the mid-Nineteen Eighties when she grew to become the make-up artist for the Antwerp Six, together with Dries Van Noten and Ann Demeulemeester, in addition to her childhood good friend Martin Margiela. 

Inge Grognard make-up explored

Since then, Grognard has labored with Balenciaga, Haider Ackermann, Hood By Air, Vetements and extra; however the brand new beauty book primarily focuses on her work within the Antwerp trend scene of the late Nineteen Eighties to the early 2000s, the place she pioneered her signature subversive, do-it-yourself fashion.

Pictures present fashions with a daring painted-on unibrow, or intentionally misapplied mascara, or blanched, monochromatic options. The outcomes are charming and in addition difficult; they pose philosophical questions on our perceptions of magnificence as a lot as they titillate our aesthetic sensibilities. 

As Olivier Zahm, co-founder of Purple journal, writes in his introduction for the guide: ‘Grognard’s magnificence revolution is actually feminist. She makes use of make-up as a creative gesture, an intimate revolt, one that enables every girl to reclaim her magnificence, her interior turmoil, her hidden conflicts, her fragility and to succeed in past the masculine crucial of seduction.’ 

He continues, ‘Her work marked each a brutal break with conventional magnificence conventions and a leap into the long run with an aesthetic that’s nonetheless defining the fantastic thing about tomorrow.’