Dramatic eye makeup popped on quite a few Paris runways for fall 2024. At Dries Van Noten, Lucy Bridge created feather eyeliners that were glued all the way down to the upper corner of models’ peppers.

“It created an easy, yet striking detail,” Bridge said. “The inspiration got here from Dries wanting to create a makeup which felt realistic, something which the character we were creating could have done themselves.”  

Bridge used quite a lot of different coloured feathers to enhance the hues throughout the fashion collection.

“People need to see a contemporary tackle makeup, something which hasn’t been seen over and once more,” she said. “We have now to make an impact, even when that is doing something easy and stylish.  

For the attention take a look at Weinsanto, Axelle Jérina gleaned inspiration from designer Victor Weinsanto’s collection, with its dried flowers, lace and soft, nude colours. “I immediately considered stretched lines and colours in symbiosis with the gathering — the touches of white as a marriage day souvenir,” she said. “A lot of fading and softness, with graphic lines adding a touch of drama.  

“Black on the waterline, since the bride of 2024 will likely be wearing it,” added Jérina. “It’s a lady ready to depart the whole lot behind on the happiest day of her life if her partner were to even barely criticize her wedding dress.”

She believes it’s becoming more commonplace for makeup to have an actual place at fashion shows, as a continuity of and complement to clothing.

“We stop at nothing to face out and be as progressive because the collections,” Jérina said. “Even when it’s a detail, a false eyelash, a color, a creative fade on the lips. But that’s just the start. ‘Less is more’ is history — anything is feasible.” 

For the Pierre Cardin show, the home’s studio fashioned eye makeup that appeared like a wash of blue from temple to temple. The concept? “The synthesis between the horizon line and that of the ocean surface,” Studio Pierre Cardin said.

The look was achieved with iridescent and gradient makeup in blue tones applied with a sponge and brush.

“It was a makeup look that could possibly be daring on the eyes but balanced with only a touch of gloss on the lips,” the studio said. “This may increasingly thoroughly turn into a trend.”