Rene Russo, 1976. Makeup by Way Bandy.
I am so excited about the interview I did on Monday night with Walter Cessna, for my next Fashion Chat. There’s aren’t many people in the industry who were designers at the age of 16, sold their first magazine to a publisher at the age of 17 and have been sued by American Airlines AND Louis Vuitton. So stay tuned… the interview will be published in the next few days.
In the meantime, Way Bandy is a makeup artist whose name was mentioned in the interview, so I thought I’d post a few pictures of his work. Here is a fantastic blurb about his work, from V Magazine.
“The makeup artist Way Bandy was the first beauty superstar. He was there for the ’70s and the ’80s when fashion met disco and sex. He was there when the production values at photo shoots—then called sittings—went through the roof. It was he and his adopted creative family who designed an American look and lifestyle that inspires fashion insiders and image savants to this day. Bandy literally gave it its face.
Before Bandy, there was no such thing as an editorial force like Pat McGrath or a mass-market phenomenon like Bobbi Brown. Before Bandy, models were asked to apply their own makeup. “There were no makeup people in New York,” remembers Sandy Linter, a makeup artist who some know as an inspiration for the composite character played by Elizabeth Mitchell in the 1998 film Gia. “When I say there were none, I mean there were maybe only five of us. Way was the only game in town for a long, long time.” Bandy is the reason that a legion of beauty professionals exists today. “He made it an attractive career,” says Maury Hopson, a hairstylist, Bandy’s close friend, and co-executor of his estate.”
Rene Russo, shot by Francesco Scavullo. Makeup by Way Bandy.
Iman, shot by Francesco Scavullo. Makeup by Way Bandy.
Brooke Shields, makeup by Way Bandy.
Photographer Francesco Scavullo, makeup by Way Bandy.
Bazaar magazine, makeup by Way Bandy.
Makeup by Way Bandy.
Way Bandy (right) with friend Maury Hopson.
Way Bandy;s book, Designing Your Face, published in 1984.
Cher in Vanity Fair, makeup by Way Bandy.
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Richard Avedon
David LaChapelle
Makeover Madness by Steve Meisel
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