Legendary makeup artist PatMcGrathreal takes a stroll down Metgala memory lane.
I was obsessed with punk growing up in Northampton, England. All of a sudden, kids were turning up in the streets with huge peacock mohawks, in the full regalia. My mother would say, “Don’t look at them!” But as a child, all I wanted to do was look. It was all I could see. It was everywhere. I wouldn’t have been able to get a face piercing past my mother, but I did play with eyeliner in my bedroom.
So when I got the creative brief for the 2013 Met gala—”Punk: Chaos to Couture”—it was a dream come true to mix those two things together. No rules, absolute freedom, no fear. And that first Monday in May really was chaos to couture! We did everything across the street from the Met. I think we were in an embassy on the corner of 79th and 5th, in a huge beautiful ballroom.
—a high-shine chrome eye shadow—at the 2016 Met gala, but the concept was based on one of my first ever covers for FrenchFast-forward almost 25 years and I found myself working on the
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