Luxury brands are lining up to work with this unconventional founder
Isamaya Ffrench isn't the kind of make-up artist concerned with the perfect red lip (even though she has, indeed, perfected it). She doesn't dwell on TikTok trends, like 'latte lids'. The very notion of prettiness is not really something that interests her.
She is the kind of make-up artist who casually drops references to Kant and Jung into conversation, pausing before musing on what, exactly, beauty really means ('Oh god, I'm going to say something like 'inner beauty', aren't I?' she laughs over a Zoom call from her home in London). She gave Rihanna pencil-thin eyebrows for British Vogue in 2018, and sent models for Thom Browne down the runway wearing colourful feathered lashes.
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Harry Potter reboot star Nick Frost fails to mention J.K. Rowling during new interview in which he revealed the 'only people' whose approval he sought for iconic role
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