“Everyone’s getting facials, so it’s clean skin and body latex,” Zoe Latta says of the beauty vision backstage at Eckhaus Latta’s fall 2023 show. Backstage at the 122 Community Center in the East Village, designer Mike Eckhaus sits in a Sunday Riley chair, eyes closed, as the culty skin-care brand’s offerings are massaged into his skin while steps away, The White Lotus’s Jon Gries chats by the catering table (soon, he’ll walk the runway) and makeup artist Fara Homidi’s team paints models’ hands with a tub of black Liquid Latex Fashions paint.
“In the collection, we have a lot of hairiness,” says Latta. “There’s shearling and handpainted mohair that has that abstract goopiness that the makeup has, and then the latex is a really fun contrast.” For actual hair, hairstylist Edward Lampley is creating a spectrum of wet-to-dry looks. “We’re using Mr. Smith Texture Spray, and the Mr. Smith Paste to sort of blow it all out and make the shapes,” he explains. Some models, like Camilla Deterre, wear a “slick tight” wet look while Thanowa Lual is given an “angelic, very soft” dry texture, and others in the cast have a “greasy, grungy” feel that falls somewhere in the middle.
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