Makeup Beat

Actress Norma Shearer starred in the classic film THE WOMEN.

Meg Ryan will be playing her role in the most recent remake coming out soon. Nothing can touch the original IMO.
(Top photo by George Hurrell from Fabulon)

Marjorie Andrade was a top junior model from the time she was fourteen growing up in Brazil. After getting married and moving with her husband to Los Angeles she decided to try and model in the U.S. Problem was she stopped growing at five feet four inches tall.

I first saw her blk & wht headshot at one of the photographer’s studio. When I asked about her he said “Forget it she’s too short”. I was working on the MAX FACTOR account with another photog, so I stuck her photo in my bag and called Marjorie in on my next casting for Factor.

Her beauty was astounding. Dark hair, beautiful blue-green eyes, small nose and perfect lips, all set in a very symmetrical face. And her small framed body was perfectly proportioned which made her photograph taller than she was.

Besides I knew it wouldn’t matter how tall she was for cosmetic work. I loved her look…she was a makeup artist’s dream.

Max Factor loved her too and thought her perfect for their new MAXI campaign that was aimed at a younger market.

I went on to book Marjorie for many of my cosmetic jobs. Produced two different COSMOPOLITAN magazine special editions, a beauty guide and excercise guide. Which both ended up being best sellers.

Next I put together this cover shoot for Brazilian VOGUE. Photographed by Douglas Dubler with my hair and makeup and jewelry by FRED. During her career Marjorie went on to do three more covers for Vogue.

I introduced her to ZOLI MODELS in New York and she continued to do very well working for REVLON, LANCOME and was under contract with L’OREAL.

Divorced, remarried, divorced, and two children later…Marjorie is back in my life. Over forty and still looking fantastic, we are working on several new projects together. One being the translation of “THE SECRET OF HEALTH & WELL BEING” her health and anti-aging book she wrote in Brazil.
I’ll be keeping you updated on all the excitement soon.

George Hurrell photographed every star at M-G-M, from Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Greta Garbo to Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler. His work set a new standard for Hollywood portraits. It even inspired a new name for the genre – glamour photography. Hurrell remains an inspiration to all that love beauty.

August 26, 2008 by ERIC WILSON NY Times. Jerry Ford, who with his wife, Eileen, established one of the most recognizable modeling agencies in the world, turning a profession regarded as practically a hobby in the 1940s into one dominated by well-paid supermodels in the 1980s, died on Sunday in Morristown, N.J.. He was 83 and lived in Oldwick, N.J. The cause was complications of endocarditis, an inflammation of the heart, said his daughter Katie Ford, who was chief executive of Ford Models until last year and remains with the agency as a board member. While Eileen Ford, as the public persona behind Ford Models, was considered the doyenne of the New York modeling industry for more than four decades, it was her college sweetheart (later her husband) who first recognized the potential of a company that would approach modeling as a big, sophisticated business. Shortly after the company was started in 1946, Mr. Ford successfully introduced a payment system for models in which they were paid for their work in advance. Ford later recouped their fees from their various clients. In the 1970s, Mr. Ford was credited with creating the first contracts for models to represent specific brands exclusively, commanding significantly higher fees for the models. He negotiated the first such contract for Lauren Hutton to represent Revlon in 1974. “Before Jerry came along, there were only robber barons who were out there running modeling schools,” said Carmen Dell’Orefice, who has modeled with the Ford agency for 60 years. Ms. Dell’Orefice said she was introduced to the Fords by the photographer Erwin Blumenfeld in 1947, months after they had opened the agency in an apartment on the Upper East Side. It had been common then for models to manage their own invoices and billings, and it was therefore not uncommon for them to be paid one or two years after a job, she said. “He knew about business and he saw what was going on with the models, the clients and the photographers,” she said. Mr. Ford established a five-day workweek, and every Friday the models were paid their fees, less Ford’s 10 percent cut, whether the clients had paid the agency or not. Within a decade, those fees began to skyrocket, to as high as $3,500 a week for top models like Dorian Leigh and Mary Jane Russell, the first stars of Ford Models. In 1956, Mr. Ford said the agency was interviewing as many as 5,000 models a year but would accept only about 15. Ford represented the biggest names for decades — China Machado in the 1960s, Ms. Hutton in the 1970s, Christie Brinkley in the 1980s, Veronica Webb and Kristen McMenamy in the 1990s. Mr. Ford also managed the early modeling careers of Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Brooke Shields and Ali MacGraw. Gerard William Ford was born Oct. 2, 1924, in New Orleans, one of six children of John William and Ermine Ford. According to Michael Gross’s 1995 book, “Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women,” Mr. Ford was a boxer and football player at Notre Dame (his roommate was John Lujack, a Heisman Trophy winner) before transferring to midshipman school at Columbia University. Mrs. Ford, then Eileen Otte, was studying at Barnard College and was herself briefly a model. The couple met and eloped in 1944 as Mr. Ford was waiting to ship out with the Navy. In addition to Mrs. Ford and Katie Ford, Mr. Ford is survived by three other children, Jamie Ford Craft of Washington, Gerard William Ford Jr. of Palm Beach, Fla., and Lacey Williams of Los Angeles; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. In December, the modeling company was sold to an investment bank, Stone Tower Equity Partners. After serving on a supply ship based in Asia, Mr. Ford, upon his return to New York in 1946, resumed his studies, in accounting, at Columbia, while Mrs. Ford worked as a secretary for several model friends and eventually became their informal agent; when she became pregnant, he stepped in to manage the business and found that he liked it. “I’m not from New York,” Mr. Ford is quoted as saying in Mr. Gross’s book. “I thought models were the most incredible things in the world.”

Marilyn Monroe~Warhol

Mysterious, sensual, luminous…YSL GLOSS PUR Black a superb Limited Edition.
From plum to ebony, it dresses lips in an infinite range of shades, depending on how it is applied – feather light or rich and bold. Transparent yet intense, it plays on the depths of black and the pure shine of a sparkle-free formula. YSL

And now the male models are super super skinny.
Photographed by Hedi Slimane who started this skinny boy trend in the first place. He even inspired Karl Lagerfeld to diet.

“She may have been the face of high fashion’s “heroin chic” in the early ’90s, but Kate Moss wasn’t always cool with the rail-thin frame that helped her rake in millions.

“I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny,” the 5′5″ model tells Interview magazine in its September issue. “I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, ‘I don’t want to be this skinny.’”
While Moss, 34, disavows ever having an eating disorder, she admits her noshing habits weren’t the healthiest.
“I didn’t eat for a long time,” she says. “Not on purpose. You’d be on shoots with bad food or get on a plane, and the food would be
so disgusting you couldn’t eat it.
“You go to a show, and there’s no food at all, so if you’re doing shows back to back, you can forget eating.”
Kate – whose teeny figure once caused a public outcry and prompted cheeky graffiti artists to scrawl “Feed me” across her Calvin Klein ads – says she once shared in the distaste of her too-thin body.
“I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it,” she says. “I never liked being that skinny.” (New York Daily News)

And then theres all that cocaine that takes away your appetite which she really hated.

Dutch born Apollonia Van Ravenstein was one of the more specialized, dark haired, European-exotic looking girls.
Very kooky and fun, I always enjoyed working and laughing with Apples (her nick name). Her brother Paul is married to super star runway model Pat Cleveland. Above photos by Avedon.

AMBIANCE was a lovely but short lived magazine. The cover was shot by Ara Gallant and the hat’s “veil” is completely painted on with eye liner. I think Ara also shot the INTERVIEW cover for Andy Warhol. (click to embiggen)

Apples portrait by David Crowland one of my favorite illustrators.

MAC cosmetics are selling cherries for Fall…
Everything from bright cherry red to deep bing cherry lip color.
I especially like the contrast of the intense yellow green eye shadow. But think it looks fresher and more wearable without all the dark shadow around the eye, using just the splash of color on the lid along with the deep lip shade.
Will be on MAC counters this Sept.