Italian Summer

Chanel’s spring/summer 2018 make-up collection, Neapolis: New City harmonises Naples’ constant contrast between old and new, nature and man-made. Karishma Tulsidas discovers the wearability and modernity of this collection

- Karishma Tulsidas

SOME OF THE COLOURS IN FRONT OF US LOOK daunting. A blue lip gloss? A yellow nail varnish? Lucia Pica, Chanel’s global creative make-up and colour designer, registers our bemused expressions, and urges us to try the colours. She suggests that we apply the Poudre à Lèvres first—essentially, this new creation by the maison features a lip balm and a pigmented powder in the same palette. The balm adds moisture to the lips, and the red pigment can be layered gradually to attain the intensity needed. Pica explains, “It’s like a memory of a lipstick. You can decide the amount of powder you want, it’s democratic!”