Kei Tag

In a rare interview, designer Kei Ninomiya delves into his creative process and the wildly imaginative beauty looks of his shows Backstage at Noir Kei Ninomiya’s AW23 show in Paris, the make-up artist Amazing Jiro applies thick gelatin to the models’ faces. Swathes and droplets of baby-pink, inky-black and saffron-yellow covers their cheekbones, like a moving painting in process. In lieu of the standard make-up materials you’d normally find backstage at a significant Paris Fashion Week show, the gelatin is the superstar of this show. And on top of the models’ heads? Sculptural burnt-resin headpieces that looked like vibrant metal, concrete washed up on the shore or maybe even small meteorites fallen to...