Manuel, the main designer for Byblos Milano, was looking at a lot of martial arts films like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha, Kill Bill etc. He really liked the main female leads of those films because they were really strong women and so he wanted to create a look that had the strength and discipline of martial arts. But he also wanted to make her into a woman so it’s feminine, with the use of make-up and hair as a ritual for getting ready. – Adrian Clark
In this collection there’s a female spirit in two. The samurai part brings out her determination and strength, in contrast with the geisha’s hyper-feminine side.
In Kill Bill and all those other films, the main female lead is very masculine and tough, so Manuel wanted to somehow bring that together in the make-up and the hair; with the clean lines mirroring the same lines that were in the clothes. The prints in the clothes break and move, so do the prints in the hair as the solid graphic line breaks apart when the hair moves. We wanted the hair to mirror the fabric of the clothes, and also to have colour pop in the same way. – Adrian Clark
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