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"Designer Faces: Bottega Veneta Fall 2013\\nSoft, voluminous curls and deep red lips balanced Tomas Maier&amp;#39;s collection of sexy, sculptural sheath dresses and coats.\\nMaier grew up in Germany, so it makes sense that this season's Bottega woman paid tribute to the gentle curls and muted makeup of German-born actresses. \\\"Tomas had these reference pictures of German actresses: Hedy Lamarr and Marlene Dietrich, really classic beauties,\\\" said hairstylist Guido, who introduced a more modern take on the inspiration. \\\"I kept thinking of Jodie Foster in *Taxi Driver*\u2014disco hair, shoulder pads, power dresses. The 1940s and the '70s get interchanged.\\\"\\nGuido has been giving Bottega's models neat, twisty updos for a few seasons now, but for this collection Maier wanted softness and volume, a natural counterbalance to the sexy yet serious variations on wool shift dresses and belted coats. Given the number of pieces with high necks and exaggerated collars, the cloud of curls was a way to highlight the clothes' silhouettes.\\nGuido reached for opposite ends of the hair spectrum in one hairstyle, with a sleek side part and a windstorm-like burst of fuzzy curls. He prepped damp hair with [Redken Guts 10 Root Targeted Volume Spray Foam](http://www.allure.com/beauty-products/hair/volumizer/2012/redken-guts-10-volume-spray) before rough-drying it with his hands. He then misted the entire head with a __Redken Iron Shape__ (available only in Canada) and dragged the edge of a fine-tooth comb through the hair to create a precise part, using the highest point of the brow's arch as a guide.\\nTo create the tight curls, Guido wrapped one-inch sections of hair around a 13-millimeter-barrel curling iron starting at the cheekbones on the side of the part, and at the temples on the right. With a [Mason Pearson brush](http://www.allure.com/beauty-products/hair/2010/mason-pearson-hair-brush) (its boar bristles prevent static), Guido brushed out the curls and smoothed hair along the top of the head. The final touch was a bobby pin above the right ear. \\\"Brushing it out, with all this product, it's sort of...cloudlike,\\\" he said.\\nGuido and Maier may have sifted through images of movie stars for inspiration, but makeup artist Pat McGrath's starting point was a swatch of fabric from the collection: \\\"Tomas had a beautiful fabric the color of lips, a brown-red, and asked if I could make a lipstick that matched it.\\\" An old hand at creating bespoke lip colors backstage, McGrath whipped up a matte lipstick that she patted onto the lips with a paintbrush, concentrating the color at the center of the mouth.\\nThe strong lips were the centerpiece of the look\u2014and required a perfect canvas. McGrath evened the models' complexions with powdered foundation and concealer. Brows were \\\"groomed to perfection,\\\" she said.\\n\\\"Tomas wanted a really chic, gorgeous woman, and it was all about matte, matte, matte,\\\" said McGrath. She brushed power foundation over the eyelids and defined the crease with a black-brown eye shadow, then smudged it with her finger along the lower lash line. The idea was to create a subtle shadow that would be only slightly visible underneath the runway's lights. \\u00ad\\nWith so much texture walking the runway, nails were left buffed and bare. Which might have been a lesson in accuracy, since all of the collection's muses\u2014Lamarr, Dietrich, and Foster\u2014sported unpolished tips. In any case, a quote from *Taxi Driver* might sum up the aesthetic best: \\\"She appeared like an angel. Out of this mess, she is alone. They can't touch her.\\\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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