For makeup artist Joyce Pietrzak from Coevorden, a dream comes true. This week she travels to Paris to do the makeup for fashion designer Rick Owens’ show during Paris Fashion Week. She doesn’t quite know what awaits her yet, but she’s looking forward to it anyway.
“Very exciting. We get a demonstration in advance of what the ‘look’ is, and then we get to work,” says Pietrzak. She shows images of Owens’ designs on her mobile phone. “He calls himself the ‘Lord of Darkness,’ so it’s all a bit dark. I hope the makeup gets a little grungy.”
She and a colleague will leave for Paris on Wednesday. On Thursday morning they have to be ready at Palais de Tokyo, where the show will be held. “I expect it to be an amazing, fun experience. To meet new people, and to create something really beautiful that will become a lasting core memory.”