Leanne Marshall Fall 2015

Leanne Marshall lets her clothes tell The Story of Adele H

From the LifeMinute Team

February 20, 2015

At Leanne Marshall, soft beiges and whites plunged into deep burgundy and black, luminescent ball gowns with skirts light and sheer enough to reveal the ornately embellished panties beneath descended into dark and heavy folds of fabric...all of which to chronicle the downward spiral from the sane to the insane. "It's inspired by The Story of Adele H," explains Designer Leanne Marshall, referring to the 1975 film of the same name. "She's madly in love with this lieutenant, and it drove her to actual insanity. Through the collection, you see the girl go through these four stages, and you see her transition into complete madness."

The beauty concept was made to match. "Hair and makeup a hundred percent changes and it gets wild," adds Marshall.

Makeup Artist Janell Geason takes us through the four distinct looks of "Adele." "It starts off, she looks very pure and very beautiful, very innocent. The next phase, she falls in love and she starts to wear a little bit more makeup; her lips are a little bit more rosy, a little bit more cheek color, a little liner. And then we go into the obsession stage, and it's more like a smoky eye and it's kind of like smudged out. It's like maybe she started to cry a little bit. And then we go into the final stage, which is the madness stage. Basically, she's been crying, so we're doing like lots of black liner and we're kind of smudging it out, and we're going to spray it with water, so it kind of looks like tears coming down. And very, very pale on her lips and her skin, so she still is beautiful, but she's kind of crazy."

As for the four complementing hair looks, Hair Stylist Britt Dion explains, "She starts with really beautiful soft natural curls that are broken up a little bit. We're giving it a little bit of guts and a little bit of texture. The second look, she gets a little bit more sweaty and she's a little bit more aggressive. We're using a technique called ribbon curling, so that it keeps a longer, softer wave. And then by the third look we're doing a tighter curl. We're making it a lot tighter, a lot more of them. And by the fourth look, she's freaking out and her hair is kind of a mess."

Going insane has never looked so gorgeous...