NYFW Fall 2015: Monique Lhuillier

It was a dark and stormy day-to-night at Monique Lhuillier...

From the LifeMinute Team

February 16, 2015

Three different hair looks, three different nail looks, three different day parts of style... That was the concept behind Monique Lhuillier's Fall 2015 namesake collection, as the designer explains, "Well, Fall is very sensual, and it's a darker side to Monique. A lot more outerwear in this collection. We've broken them up into Day then Cocktail and then High Drama for evening."

Actress Brittany Snow was wowed by the Fall looks, "All of her designs are just so effortless and ladylike and romantic."

Fitted dresses were topped with tailored blazers, dark cocktail looks were embellished with intricate lace overlays, and sheer tops stretched to above the neckline. Most dramatic were the evening gowns in backless dark golds and shimmering purple-grays.

Lhuillier adds, "And you'll also notice the makeup is more dramatic and there's a little bit of that dark, exciting side...the unknown. ... The nails this season are very glamorous. It's about the details, you know, more fluid, and so it's about all the details of your nails being more dramatic. And this woman is in charge and confident, and the nails play into that."

Gina Edwards, Lead Tech for Morgan Taylor, explains, "We basically did three nail looks. You start out with a Morgan Taylor custom blend nude in Latte Please, a beautiful blue, and aubergine metallic gold base color, so basically this encompasses the dark blues, the aubergines, the dark greens that you're going to see, and a splash of metallic in her collection, too. So it was really refreshing to do three nail looks. And the same thing with the hair and the makeup, it has three different looks."

Hair Stylist Bob Recine says of the three hair looks, "It's going to kind of separate all those categories, so you know what you're looking at: Evening, Day and Cas[ual]."

And Makeup Artist Val Garland explains the winged eye makeup, "What we're doing is we're literally stabbing into under the lash line so we get that kind of like, you know, lifting look."

It's a dark and dramatic lifting look we'd like to take a stab at ourselves...