Backstage at Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood autumn/winter 2026, Swedish makeup artist Daniel Sällström channelled Romy Schneider through a warped Westwood lens, balancing silvered lids, matte smoke and blurred lips with the house’s signature irreverence
At Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood autumn/winter 2026, glamour came with a scribble in the margin. The collection, which drew on Austrian screen legend Romy Schneider, Italian costume designer Danilo Donati and a thread of erotic underwear, was pure Westwood in that sense: theatrical, sensual and a little unruly. On beauty duty was Swedish makeup artist Daniel Sällström, who translated that tension into a lineup of eyes and lips that ran the gamut from polished to pleasingly pulled apart.
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“The main inspiration from Andreas and Sabina was the glamour of Romy Schneider,” says Sällström. “As soon as we started testing these looks they quickly evolved into a Westwoodified version of her.” That “Westwoodified” instinct was the key. Rather than treating glamour as something pristine, Sällström gave it a looser hand. Silver and gold lids caught the light with almost metallic force, while elsewhere matte smoky eyes felt sketchier, sexier and more lived-in. Smudged cherry lips, flashes of glitter and the odd deliberately imperfect edge kept the looks from becoming too reverent. The result had the ease of something half-undone, which is to say exactly right for a house that has never had much patience for overworked prettiness.
