Lancôme presents us with an oh-so-girly palette for spring. Butterfly Fever features delicate butterflies and a big happy pink bow and lavender rose. They also introduced another version of it with Swarovski crystals, which I did not bother purchasing as it's the same palette but with some crystals on the outside of it.
Anyway, let's get to some pics.
With flash:
The colors are great for spring – you can't go wrong with sparkly purple and pastel pinks – but for the life of me I couldn't figure out why the butterflies are swarming around a giant bow. Fortunately Lancôme and Bloomingdale's provided an explanation in their product descriptions.
From Lancôme – "The new must have blush is an original twist of two incontrovertible items of the 70's style: the bowtie and the butterfly designed by Alexis Mabille. In fashion, wearing a bowtie is the ultimate chic attitude, besides a way to express free-spirit and absolute lack of concern for what other people think. The butterfly is a multicultural symbol of free soul, feminity and beauty of nature."
Bloomingdale's – "The packaging is decorated with an elegant bowtie and butterflies designed by Alexis Mabille. Alexis Mabille is a french fashion designer famous for his frivolous, dynamic, imaginative and racy universe, where sophistication and fantasy becomes one. The Bowtie is a leitmotif in his artistic work."
I don't know about a "leitmotif" – for Mabille it seems that bowties, and bows in general, are more of an obsession. Nearly every piece in his collections has a bow of some sort. Case in point:
From dresses…
…to skirts…
…to couture…
…to shoes and accessories, the bow is virtually everywhere in his work:
The bow makes an appearance in Mabille's menswear too, and not just in the form of bowties:
For the spring 2011 season, he even worked in some butterflies:
(all fashion images from alexismabille.com)
So there you have it. I love when I go digging to figure out a makeup mystery and find a satisfying answer!
p.s. If you're confused by the title of this post, the explanation is here. Yes, I am an unabashed Simpsons nerd.