The Proenza Schouler woman has always been pretty particular about her beauty routine. She knows what she likes: namely, clean skin, no frills, and the undone downtown hair to match. For fall, however, designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez took their girl on a day trip to the museum—The Whitney, to be exact, which showed its last uptown exhibition in October in anticipation of its move to the Meatpacking district in Lower Manhattan this spring. Back home again, and feeling inspired by a spin through its abstract expressionist works, she dipped into a bold new makeup palette: “They’re still the [Proenza] girls,” backstage pro Diane Kendal said, referencing the look of models like Liya Kibede and Binx Walton, who boasted the same clean skin and muted lips of years past. But this season, Kendal was adding a surprising element to the face in the form of a painterly swipe of MAC Chromacake in Black, which she applied with her ring finger in a single smudge from the inner corners outward along the lid.
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