The Alexander McQueen Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2011 show was held on October 5th during Paris Fashion Week where designer Sarah Burton incorporated beautiful Minx nail designs.
Model wearing Minx nail designs for the McQueen runway
U.K. nail stylist extraordinaire Marian Newman headed the team responsible for the Minx nail fashion.
Newman revealed that Sarah Burton and stylist Camilla Nickerson provided swatches of fabric that represented the ‘feel’ of the McQueen collection to assist in the creation of complementary Minx designs.
Newman and Minx co-founders Janice Jordan and Dawn Lynch-Goodwin discussed some variations of Minx nail designs based on the references, and the Minx design team developed a wide variety of nail art in preparation for the show.
"Some of the templates created were exact reproductions of the fabrics, while others were a gold version that used the motifs of the fabric, and other designs were a more natural variation that accessorised the more delicate pieces," explained Newman.
Nail application backstage at Alexander McQueen
The key designs were the delicate gold leather impression and a leaf motif layered over a matte gold Minx base.
The shape and length of the nails was natural, but super-maintained with an elegant but short oval shape.
Marian Newman and her team applied the designs straight on to the nails of some of the models, but needed to utilise false tips for some of the others in order to present a couture-worthy one to two millimetre free edge oval shape.
The end result was a flawless collaboration of McQueen and Minx, with Minx incorporating a combination of artistic flair and the latest nail technology.
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