There's a pattern here...
Descriptions of Christian Dior and resultant Pat McGrath makeup consist of a stream of unrelated ethnic or historical references with a "multicoloured" or "technicoloured" thrown in... Example A, style.com review of the 2003 Fall Ready to Wear "fetish queens in Kabuki face paint, going crazy in multicolor Asian-slash-18th-century clothes."
Christian Dior Fall Couture 2003
Flamenco showgirls in bedazzled hats perform hypercolour kabuki lunacy
An exhibition of Marlene Dietrich's clothing inspired this collection. "It was Marlene," explained the designer. "But then I thought, who would she be today? Marianne Faithfull, Janis Joplin, Courtney Love, Patti Smith!"
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