Peter Tag

Nearly a decade into his tenure as Parfums Christian Dior’s creative and image director, Peter Philips thinks the sky is the limit for makeup. “The largest trend in makeup is makeup itself,” Philips said. “It goes in every kind of directions…it’s so popular at once in all of its shades and formulas, from very nude and mental almost to very expressive and daring.” The buyer for Dior’s makeup has widened as well. “The whole lot is feasible, and that’s an enormous step forward. There’s no more barriers, it’s not only gender-fluid, whatever you ought to call it, everybody can have access to makeup, and everybody can wear makeup,” he said. That reflects larger market trends. In keeping with data from the NPD Group,...