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						SERGE LUTENS BIO
			Serge Lutens was born in Lille,  France,  and arrived in Paris about 12 years ago.  Even there,  his ideas in the field of the arts and fashion were considered to be unrealistic at first.  Luttens persisted with  his personal approach,  and was soon discovered by the Parisian underground and fashion world,  and,  some years later,  the French Vogue magazine.  He startlingly innovative style in the beauty world caught the attention of Parfums Christian Dior,  and begiinning in 1969,  Lutens began his tenure as their exclusive color theorist and creator of the Makiage image.  His fantasy make-up has appeared in advertisements all over the world,  and he says he draws inspiration from art, nature, and sometimes the particular shade of  a leaf or an exquisite piece of furniture.  Lutens himself inspires the colors and look  for the twicy-yearly lines of Dior make-up,  from start to finish.  He first works with the color technicians,  chooses the models,  designs their clothes and hairstyles,  applies the make-up, sets the mood in his Paris studio,  and when all is right, he shoots the picture.  Lutens views make-up as  ´´a means of expression,´´ and feels that it ´´will serve eternally like the paintting for the painter.´´  His photographic interpretation of his favorite painters - Renoir, Picasso, Van Dongen, Delauney, Leger and Modigliani - were given an exhibition titled Make-Up Art that was shown at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1973.                                                                                              National Photographic - 1979 back to SERGE LUTENS  menu