“So it’s really otherworldly skin for everybody,” Isamaya Ffrench said at Thom Browne while dusting metallic Make Up For Ever powders on a model’s face. Yes, there was a spacey alien theme, so skin was supposed to look “very beautiful” under the “silver celestial makeup” that the makeup artist applied on top of a well-treated canvas. Esthetician Vinida Savant layered isClinical products (Paris’s favorite backstage skincare this season) during her signature acupressure facial massage before sending models over to Ffrench since “everything is connected, your skin, your organs, the way that you feel, the emotions that you carry in your body, and it sometimes impacts the skin glow and quality, even texture,” Savant explained. By pressing certain points on the face, she believes it creates an “inner glow.”

At Coperni’s circular runway within the closed-for-renovations Centre Pompidou, M.A.S.C. Studio husband and wife facialists Magali and Alessandro Cirino massaged models’ skin to life with isClinical’s new Daily Dynamic Hydrator. Once the show opened to the sounds of Kate Bush’s “This Woman’s Work,” models’ complexions were beaming as editors shielded their eyes with sunglasses from the glamorous stadium-bright lighting.

Chill Updos

Dries Van Noten

Photographed by Acielle / Style Du Monde

Undercover

Photo: Courtesy of Undercover

The mood for hair was relaxed, like it was just pulled back in the moment. Hair artist Olivier Schawalder’s piecey french twists for Dries Van Noten featured a set of mini bangs that he wanted to look like a model might have “just cut herself.” The surf-inspired updo was reminiscent of the moment you ride a wave and sweep your hair back quickly, “not knowing what it looks like but you just feel cool,” said Schawalder.

For Undercover’s presentation in their showroom, hair artist Yusuke Morioka twisted models’ hair up with big butterfly claw clips, and for the Row, Guido used multiple combs to create sculptural French twists. They were more perfect than chill, save for the sensation that if in real life the giant combs could casually fall out at some point in the day, no big deal. And at Chanel, Duffy sent multiple models down the runway in wispy low chignons that felt entirely unfussy, as if perhaps held by just an elastic.

Shine On

Lacoste

Photo: Umberto Fratini / Gorunway.com