KATIE GALLAGHER AW14 NYFW

The inspiration: The AW14 collection, Wonderworld, was inspired by an abandoned amusement park, formerly packed with people having fun. Katie Gallagher is young and modern and doesn’t care. The designer herself is the muse and her collection for AW14 has a really sporty element to it, but with a hip-hop feel. Lots of vinyl and shiny materials. There is also quite a dark and gothic side to Katie’s work, and some of the models have oversized bows in their hair. These represent the decay of childlike. Combining all these elements, Nick, the lead stylist, came up with a boyish sculptured look that evolves into natural texture at the ends.


The hair and make-up really stood out most to me. The hair was amazigly sleek with a middle parting which was extreamly eye catching. It was gelled down using a wet gel and made the over all look, strong. The fact that the sides of the hair were also tucked behind the ears made it look even neater and gave it a 'boyish' feel. This was a good way to pull the overall look together since the whole collection is fairly dark and tomboyish in a 'sexy' way.

The make-up was nice and glossy, keeping it young and natural however adding a very edgy lip. It was a very well structured lip shape and the lip colour was perfect. From my make-up kit, I could create this lip colour using a mix of russian red and hang up by mac. The eyebrows were brushed upwards and filled in quite a bit. Over the years, bold and thick 'natural looking' eyebrows have been very popular.
The lead makeup artist of this collection was Romero Jennings for MAC.
“The inspiration for the show is about an abandoned amusement park. So think about old metal that has sort of rusted and is chipping away. Also if you look at Katie’s collection the clothing almost mimics armour even though its feminine with a little bit of dark edge. I decided to keep the skin glowing by highlighting it, also doing this vampy almost a film-noir lip. Brushed up brows to look sort of wild, almost Game of Thrones, with a masculine brow. No contouring but highlighting brow and this really powerful lip. The lip color is current pencil, filled in with lipstick heart of flame with crushed cranberry also."
Over all I personally LOVED this collection. It screamed fall to me. I love the textures used in all the clothing and the dark colours used have become more fashionable and have been seen much more in highstreet fashion more recently.
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