“It was fun!” exclaimed Lazaro Hernandez, one half of the Proenza Schouler design team, of the fashion brand’s collaboration with Lancôme on a limited-edition makeup collection that’s launching starting this month. “In terms of the color, we were looking a lot at artists like Ellsworth Kelly, James Turrell and Carmen Herrera. We like the idea of bringing this stronger, graphic color in,” continued Jack McCollough, Proenza Schouler’s other artistic director. The duo was sitting in the courtyard of the Perrotin gallery in the Marais neighborhood of Paris, where a launch party for the color cosmetics capsule took place Tuesday night. Aficionados of both brands — Liv Tyler, Lauren Santo Domingo, Mandy Moore, Betony Vernon and Chiara Ferragni included — sipped Champagne and took in tunes mixed by DJs Honey Dijon and Emmanuel Caurel. “For the beauty looks we do in our shows, it is always a bit more stripped back,” said McCollough. “But since this is a standalone beauty collection, it is a little bit more playful, a little more free.” For product packaging, they opted to zoom in on a segment of the signature Lancôme rose. “It was interesting to use their codes but really abstract them,” said Hernandez. Some favorite products? “I am

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