Makeup Artist Isamaya Ffrench on How to Define Beauty | Inside Fashion
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The Business of Fashion
4.6 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The makeup artist behind Rihanna's thin-eyebrowed British Vogue cover speaks to Tim Blanks about the curation of identity through makeup, and the rapidly changing face of beauty.
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| 0:00.0 | After beauty kind of having this notion of acceptance, what's really interesting now is it's almost like there's a notion of rejection in beauty now, rejecting orthodoxy. |
| 0:13.0 | Freedom to express yourself has definitely changed in that you are scrutinized now because we work in the public eye. My biggest challenge |
| 0:22.4 | is working out where I sit now in being a professional makeup artist. What power or authority |
| 0:28.7 | do I have? Because actually, it's the generation, Generation Z or the Instagrammers that hold |
| 0:33.6 | so much more creative authority in a way than I do. |
| 0:42.1 | Hi, this is Imran Ahmed founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome to Inside Fashion on the Bof podcast. This week, our editor at large sits down with the groundbreaking makeup artist Isamaya French, |
| 0:50.9 | known for her artistic and highly creative approach to makeup artistry. |
| 0:55.4 | Isamaya is Days Beauty's creative director and has also joined Christian Lubutan as the company's |
| 1:00.9 | new global makeup ambassador. This week, she sits down with Tim to talk about what it means |
| 1:05.8 | to be a makeup artist today in the age of Instagram with public scrutiny and ongoing changes and notions of what |
| 1:12.7 | beauty really is. |
| 1:14.1 | So here's Tim Blanks and Isamaya French inside fashion. |
| 1:20.3 | Hi, Isamaya. |
| 1:21.7 | Hi. |
| 1:23.0 | I would like to start with, by asking you about something which really brought home in the last little while, |
| 1:33.3 | the power of makeup, I think, the power of makeup to make you stop and look at something with new eyes. |
| 1:42.3 | And that thing is Rihanna's eyebrows. Oh, Rihanna's always |
| 1:46.9 | starting with Rihanna's eyebrows. Great, good start. Tell me about Rihanna's eyebrows. And I'm |
| 1:53.2 | mean by that, I mean the scummy, I mean the skinny sort of Jean Harlowy eyebrows you did for Vogue's cover. |
| 1:59.4 | Well, that was, that's a real pleasure to block out her eyebrows and do that look. |
| 2:08.1 | I worked with Edward Ennifle and Nick Knight on that shoot. |
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