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Article: Beauty: Catwalk - In your face It's not about subtlety or hiding blemishes - this is make-up that makes a statement. Susannah Frankel speaks to Val Garland, whose bold creations have taken catwalk fashion to new extremes.
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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It is one of life's great ironies that Val Garland - make-up
artist to, among others, Alexander McQueen and John Galliano - is,
herself, allergic to any face-transforming products. "I had to stop
wearing make-up in 1985," she says. "I occasionally wear a bit of
mascara but that's it."
It hasn't always been this way. "Oh no, I used to wear loads," she
says. "I was a skinhead, a goth, a new romantic. Whatever tribe was
around, I joined it. I just used to love painting pictures on my
face, I suppose. And I wanted to stand out. I didn't care what people
thought, just so long as they looked."
This could be her mantra because, where Garland is concerned, make-