NYLON - February 2009 - (Page 92) piece of my art fade into you Mark Rothko’s signature style of painting large canvases with rectangles in complementary shades was initially met with criticism. The oversize scale of the paintings made traditionalists consider them cheap, to which Rothko explained his vision of the viewer feeling as if he or she is in the picture, to that end insisting that people stand exactly 18 inches away. But Rothko, whose family emigrated from Czarist Russia to Portland, Oregon, when he was 11, was always a trailblazer: Upon moving stateside, he finished five years of school in four, picked up English—his fourth language—and landed a scholarship at Yale. After dropping out and moving to New York City, Rothko became a painter (and a Nietzschean). Now his art has inspired YSL’s makeup artist, Val Garland, to create the brand’s latest collection, so you can have Rothko even closer to your face. And the compact’s gold-spiked coral flush goes on much prettier than if Garland had been inspired by, say, Pollock. ysl palette d’artiste collector powder for the complexion, $62, at yslbeautyus.com. canvas the situation The beauty cognoscenti would like you to believe that everyone needs a curler small enough for individual eyelashes, a $1,000 machine to work on cellulite, a special flat iron for cowlicks, and a face cream that includes some combination of gold, nightingale droppings, and caviar. I have always considered primer—an extra step between moisturizer and foundation, allegedly to make the latter go on smoother and last longer—to be one such excess. But when Fresh sent their new Rose Face Primer to me, I was so enamored with the delicate fragrance (it’s a clean rose with cucumber, not a grandma, powder-y smell) that I tried it. And call me a sucker, but I immediately noticed that my makeup looked better even after 18-hour days, and especially in pictures (or, even more miraculously, pictures taken during those 18-hour days, which unfairly seem documented more than the others). fresh rose freshface primer, $36, at fresh.com. http://www.yslbeautyus.com http://www.fresh.com
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