How Renowned Makeup Artist Pat McGrath Is Changing the Face of Beauty On Her Terms

Under the glowing red lights and crystal chandeliers of a banquet room tucked in the back of China Chalet — a Chinese restaurant by day, dance club for New York’s cool kids by night — the legendary Amanda Lepore shimmies on the dance floor alongside downtown ‘It girl’ and model Paloma Elsesser. Nearby, Gwendoline Christie (otherwise known to the world as the inimitable Brienne of Tarth) gets a drink at the bar while Teyana Taylor dances atop a table and club kid Sussi holds court at a banquette teeming with downtown’s pretty young things waiting to get their faces made up by the hordes of makeup artists who are bustling around the room, patting glitter on eyelids and painting on luscious bow mouths. It’s a decadent, glamorous spectacle that can really only be summed up as “fabulous,” the superlative favored by the woman who made it all happen: one Pat McGrath, quite possibly the world’s most famous makeup artist. Tonight, the eve of New York Fashion Week, belongs to “Mother” (as she’s affectionately known to friends and fans) and her glorious Mothership Voguing Ball — an epic homage of a party to the ballroom scene — where fashion’s insiders and celebrities are rubbing shoulders with drag queens and the city’s nightlife darlings to celebrate the unlimited release of her makeup line, Pat McGrath Labs. The varied, glitter-adorned crowd at the Mothership Ball is a testament to ...
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