Rory Rants: Tom Pecheux for Estée Lauder

So, I don't update my perfume blog regularly anymore.  I will again, once I finish with my film and other various life annoyances, at which point I will also write gushy blogs about my work for Dior.  Until then, my posts will be somewhat scattered, but I must write a love letter to Estée Lauder's new fall collection by Tom Pecheux.

Estée Lauder is the counter next to mine at Dior, and their perfumes are historically important and well reviewed by Luca and Turin (necessary blog on Calice Becker's Beyond Paradise to come).  Also, the counter manager Laurie won my heart by telling me tales of her disco nights at Faces.  If you know me, then you know of my unrequited love for Faces and my distress that this happened.

Estée's marketing and packaging has remained resistant to change.  In terms of the perfumes, this is a breath of fresh air in an industry that constantly does away with masterpieces to make room for celebrity messes.  Estée's reformulations, when necessary, are true to the originals and they don't arbitrarily change their marketing and packaging to chase perceived trends.  In terms of their makeup though, I have not been tempted by their products, until this new fall collection came out.

The fall collection is full of black lipsticks, purple glosses, dark nail polish, and "cyber metallic shadows."  I came home with this:

Nail polish in Nouveau Riche, Pure Color gloss in Violet Rain, and Pure Color Vivid Shine Lipstick in Gunmetal Luminizer.  It's love.