Daily delight: Nars and Guido create East Village party girls for Marc Jacobs

One of my favourite looks at New York Fashion Week these past few days was to be found on the catwalk at Marc Jacobs, where an array of unknowns and even a couple of street casting stars were sent out in a seemingly endless parade of hot frocks and coats on even hotter girls. The make up was created by living legend Francois Nars, who told the press that model Jamie Bochert - a pale, willowy lass with elongated features and an air of the Patti Smith about her - was Jacobs's favourite girl of the show as she was such a close match to his desired aesthetic. He asked Nars and super duper hair stylist Guido to base all the other models' hair and makeup on Bochart's “easygoing, East Village-girl look”, and the results were just bloody gorgeous. For Guido, this meant heartily trimming all the girls' hair so that it ended just below the collarbone, then he worked a little Redken Fabricate 03 Texturizer through from root to tip while it was damp and let it air-dry. This is usually a method that makes us mere mortals look like drowned cats, but on these wee things blooming with youth it was carefree and fun.
For the makeup, Nars created a look that he described as "slightly worn off, as if the girl slept in her makeup after a night out and this is what she looks like the next day” – again a look that makes most of us look like tired old hags in need of an espresso, pronto. He used his fingers to apply and then smudge the makeup colours so they looked a little worn in and hastily applied. He used products from his own make up range including D. Gorgeous – a beautiful pale lilac shadow - on the lids, and Black Moon eyeliner worked slightly into the lashes and as a smudged line above and below. Add to that a pretty peachy cream blush and a slick of pale peachy-coral lipstick which - according to Allure magazine spies - was a discontinued Nars shade that Jacobs himself brought to the hair and makeup test. For the finishing touch, the star make up artist used old tubes of mascara that had dried out a little to make the top and bottom lashes look purposefully clumpy for that perfect show-me-a-pillow effect.