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In a world obsessed with soft glam and curated imperfection, Schiaparelli’s Fall 2025 couture show offered a rare kind of rupture. Titled Back to the Future, the collection itself was sculptural and transcendent but it was the beauty direction that told the real story.
There were no brows.
No blush.
No compromise.
Instead, we saw a return to the kind of maquillage that doesn’t ask to be liked — it declares itself. Jet-black lips framed emotionless mouths. Skin was porcelain, stretched under the lights like silent marble. Eyes — unshadowed, unlined — stared through us, framed by bleached brows or none at all. The message was clear: in the future, beauty is no longer ornamental. It is absolute.
Each face became an extension of the garment — not a canvas, but a component. The black vinyl dress, sliced open and crystallized, demanded a lip like a void. The crimson column of micro-sequins found its echo in a perfect red mouth, untouched by gloss or grin. And the spiked solar collar? It required a face stripped to its essence, so the light could bounce not just from the crystals, but from the audacity of restraint.
Photo Credits: Acielle/ STYLE DU MONDE
What makes this beauty look modern is not novelty but severity. It’s the refusal to dilute. No mascara. No contour. Just concept, perfectly executed. It’s a reminder that makeup is not always about enhancement. Sometimes it’s about erasure, reduction, redefinition. The future, it seems, belongs to those who are willing to subtract.
And while the runway was drenched in references to sacred geometry, futurism, and surreal body ornamentation, the makeup spoke a colder, bolder language. One where intimacy is replaced by intention. One where the face becomes a mask and the mask becomes power.
In the end, Schiaparelli’s Back to the Future didn’t just imagine fashion forward — it redrew the very definition of beauty. What remains is not softness, but structure. Not trend, but truth.
Because in the future, we don’t wear beauty — we weaponize it.
Photo Credits: Acielle/ STYLE DU MONDE
