Word: aucoin
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...ROBERT, 81, prolific French producer and director of several comedies and literary adaptions such as Le ch?teau de ma m?re (My Mother's Castle) and La gloire de mon p?re (My Father's Glory); in Paris. Robert paired his successful commercial directing with a parallel acting career. DIED. KEVYN AUCOIN, 40, gay-rights activist and makeup artist to the world's prettiest, from Julia Roberts and Winona Ryder to Catherine Deneuve and Isabella Rossellini, of complications arising from a pituitary brain tumor; in New York City. HONORED. ARTHUR MILLER, 86, American playwright, with Spain's prestigious Principe de Asturias Prize...
...KEVYN AUCOIN, celebrity makeup artist: "When Divine gets a black eye in John Waters' Female Trouble, she puts purple and black on the other eye to match. In the spirit of Divine, I think Bush should offset his bandage by double-piercing the opposite ear and wearing bright and spangly earrings. It worked in the '80s for new-wave bands...
...Making Faces, Aucoin devotes several pages of his new book to portraying his celebrated friends as Hollywood icons from the past: Winona Ryder as Elizabeth Taylor, Calista Flockhart as Audrey Hepburn and Martha Stewart as Veronica Lake. Yet the rest of the book shows Aucoin's makeup wizardry on women of all ages, ethnicities and body types (including a transgender friend). The goal, he insists, is to "empower women through showing them possibilities, not making judgments...
...That Aucoin endeavors to promote individuality and a feminist viewpoint in a field notorious for imposing a largely uniform standard of beauty is a contradiction that's not lost on him. "I work in an industry with some of the meanest people who have ever walked the face of the earth, who live and die for the surface," he says. "But the way I see it, I have a responsibility to do the most I can do, the way I know how. Since I know how to apply makeup, that's what I do and use it as a platform...
...once, in an editorial meeting at a major American fashion magazine, protested that every model in a fall preview spread was white, blond haired and blue eyed. "I said, 'Last time I looked, we didn't live in Sweden.' People stared at me as if I were speaking Latin." Aucoin retains the same passion for his trade that he had when he started 18 years ago. Still, he proclaims, "if all it says on my gravestone is DID GOOD LIPSTICK, I'd rather it say nothing...