Giambattista Valli has finally unleashed his love of makeup through a business collaboration with MAC Cosmetics.
Italian born fashion designer Giambattista Valli’s career has grown exponentially. This week the ready-to wear and haute couture designer relished from Rome is in his glory. Valli celebrated the 10 year anniversary of his self entitled fashion house at the Palais Garnier opera house.
Valli wanted the MAC collab to be inspired by flowers for dresses are common in his fashion collections.
“I’m very well-known for dresses, no? And I thought it was very nice, the idea of dressing your lips,” says Valli.
The colors take after the beautiful peachy corals, plums, dark cherry, yellow reds, and peony flower colors displayed on the Valli runways this year.
“For a creative person, collaborating can be frustrating because you feel that you’re limited or stuck within someone else’s ideas, but with MAC it was 100 percent freedom and 100 percent support just to make my idea become a reality, to pull out my flowers and my sense and my emotion and put it into the color,” says Valli, who sent in a cherry for MAC to refer towards for a corresponding lipstick color. The collaboration also includes lip gloss.
MAC collections are known for selling out quick, for make-up artists; and cake-faces bombard the stores first thing the morning of a launch. Makeup lovers purchase the collection whole or pick pieces, leaving last minute buyers in the dust. Like the saying goes: “if you snooze, you lose”! The Valli and MAC collab created one of a kind bullet casings, which matches the floral colors.
The cheeky name titles are as follows: Euginie (dark cherry with vlue undertone, matte), Margherita (yellow bright peach,matte), Charlotte (yellow rich red, matte), Tats (bright hot pink, matte), and Bianca B (pale white pink,matte) available in stores or at maccosmetics.com