Blush by Phaidon Editors - ISBN: 9781837291212
Hardcover
Makeup as art: a global celebration of inspiring transformation.

Blush

Contemporary Makeup Artists

$65.44

  • Hardcover

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    7 April 2026

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Summary

Make-up is empowering. It’s a means of reinvention, experimentation, provocation, disguise, and protection. It can be “barely there” or can transform someone entirely. And in the hands of the finest practitioners, it can traverse into a whole other fantasy land. Blush is the very first global survey to celebrate the most creative, ground-breaking, and inspiring work of more than 75 international makeup artists working today.

The book features established names alongside emerg…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781837291212
ISBN-10:1837291217
Author:Phaidon Editors, Linda Evangelista, Alistair O'Neill
Publisher:Phaidon Press Ltd
Imprint:Phaidon Press Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:7 April 2026
Weight:1.42kg
Dimensions:270mm x 205mm x 27mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘A reminder that the makeup artists defining our time take risks that favour individual expression over fleeting trends.’ – Globe and Mail Style Magazine

‘Beauty enthusiasts take note [of this] new book celebrating the immeasurable power of makeup.’ – PEOPLE

‘Positions makeup artists not simply as technicians, but as cultural image-makers who help define how beauty functions in contemporary life.’ – BeautyMatter

About The Author

Phaidon Editors

Phaidon Editors

Linda Evangelista is one of the most influential fashion models of all time. Beginning her career in the 1980s, Evangelista has graced more than 700 magazine covers and has walked runways for countless ready-to-wear and haute couture shows worldwide.

Alistair O’Neill is a writer, curator, and professor of fashion at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London). He is the author of Faye Toogood: Drawing, Material, Sculpture, Landscape (Phaidon, 2022) Exploding Fashion: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Twentieth-Century Fashion (MoMu/Lannoo 2021), and London: After a Fashion (Reaktion Books, 2007). In 2023 he curated A Hard Man is Good to Find! at the Photographers Gallery, London. O’Neill sits on the editorial board of the journal Fashion Theory and regularly writes for Aperture magazine.

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