Pat McGrath (notes from a BBC interview)
/In this post, there is a list of the advanced words and phrases from the BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs interview with Pat McGrath. She is a very successful make-up artist. Aggie and I are currently creating a podcast and it will be launched on 11th October!
You can listen to the interview here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00057px
Intro
00.47 often described as the most influential make-up artist in the world
00.50 her creative vision sets the bar for beauty trends across the fashion spectrum
00.58 avant guard looks
01.13 She cut her teeth working for free
01.20 before going on to collaborate with designers
1.32She’s widely acknowledged as the most prolific run-way artist of all time
1.38 Undefetagable creative curiosity
1.42 make-it happen attitude
What she is famous for
02.11 ...to create stunningly artist looks (famous for)
2.15 Intricate jewelled face masks
02.20 Huge bird-like feathered eyebrows
2.33 I’m really a shoe, bag, clothing ...addict
2.35 I’m really scratching to get into the door to see all the new creations
2.43 Who is that woman of the season
2.48 You’re also given abstract words for the beauty….vinyl, love, adorned, princess from outer space
03.00 It’s insane the briefs that you’re given
Fashion shows
03.11 The logistical requirement for working on a major fashion show
3.29 The team collectively travel 30,000 miles per season
3.38 Military precision
3.46I’m a bit like a General marching around the tables
1st track
4.04 For me as a little girl prancing around the living room
4.31 It reminds me of my early days of waiting for the Avon lady…..
Avon uses both door-to-door salespeople ("Avon ladies", as well as "Avon men") and brochures to advertise its products.
4.30 My mum would have to fight me off her….I’d get thrown out for insubordination
Intimacy of her work
05.47 You’re very close to whoever you’re making up
05.50 they always open up to me (models she’s making up)
06.01 You’re not a fence sitter
06.17 I always do a dry run
06.25I will have prepped that for days before
06.30 I get my act together once someone arrives
06.38 You’re not bringing your own nerves
06.49 I’m a nervous wreck
06.57Nerve wracking
07.03 It’s about soothing nerves
About her
07.16 Tell me about your own signature look
07.25 Mascara layers of that... eye liner... Shimmering highlighter on the cheek bones
07.37 They’re my canvas (putting make-up on other people)
2nd Track
07.48 ...the androgyne, the bleached eyebrows
08.40 When you were picking up the ….award
08.47 Fantasy
Mother
08.58 I was hothoused into the industry
09.13 The remnants
09.39 I used to beg her not to take me
09.59 Then she’d bathe to give it that dewy finish
10.10 Hair dos
10.33 Vintage stores
10.38 Bias cut dresses…..tuxedos
11.00 hoarding
11.07 She’d talk me through
11.32 for me it was a bit of a wonderland (her mum didn’t let her know it was hard)
11.46 glamour
11.57 Turns it on it’s head
12.12 her full lips with extra gloss
13.25 futuristic
13.35 The scarcity of make-up for black skin
a situation in which the supply of something is not enough for the people who want it or need it
a scarcity of fuel
13.49 she has dusted on her face and she looked amazing
13.57 That stems from my mother
14.11 Whipped it
When she was younger
14.21 I was shining like a belisha Beacon
(in the UK) an orange ball containing a flashing light, mounted on a striped post on the pavement at each end of a zebra crossing.
15.04 Sneaking into night clubs
15.29 When I was a clubber
15.31 bomber jacket with the orange lining, trainers - high tops, hoop earings
15.55 I’d go to London to stalk celebrities
16.24 I found my calling right then and there (Janice Long asked her if she could do her make-up)
16.53 I would skip class
17.50 ….Following the people that came out of that club scene in their daily endeavours
18.22 I’d tied thousands of rags onto little braids
18.40 Steven Jones the milliner
18.49 I’m shooting this weekend
18.58 She’d let me come and look and soak it all up
19.02That was the best schooling ever
19.07 We’d have fake ID
19.27 We’d sneak in, rip the side of a tent...under a flap
19.48 We felt we deserved to be there
Trip to Japan
20.08 It’s time to give up (find a normal job)
20.29 It was a miraculous moment in my life
5th Disc Malcom McLarren Madame Butterfly
21.09 bowls of foundation (John Galliano 2007) Shalom Harlow 50 ft long
21.12 A black horse funeral carriage racing behind you to the stage
21.21 Everything was surreal..it was all about a mash-up, world’s colliding
21.30 the goose bumps that I get….
22.43 a new young lad
22.49 Back in the day you never needed appointments for anything, you just barged in
23.08 We’re both booming voices
23.18 You always had the confidence to create trends
23. 38 I was having second thoughts (yellow eyebrow)
23.44 I was begging for mercy
23.53 You wash it off in the end
24.14 What was your first collaboration like (Steven Misel)
24.34 Excellence to the heightened degree
24.53 She set me up (asked editor)
25.12 I should have been fired
25.17 How out of order was that
25.22 No harm done
6th Disc
It was all about molten metals (collaborated on a movie)
26.40 Fashion is an industry where the real insiders are outsiders
26.51 The perfect pleat or the perfect hair do
27.01 Geeky
Mum
27.39 She would have been so proud...She would have been there pointing out certain mistakes
7th Disc - Byork
28.12 The robotic beauty
28.14 Skin fetish fantasy
28.17 Inhuman perfection married with human fashion
Changes in Fashion
29.09 LL - a skinny and white bias
Mentoring
29.44 You’ve been mentored throughout your life. How important is it to pay that forward and mentor others?
29.54 If it wasn’t for certain people looking out for me, I would never have happened.
30.06 Get to the tents and we’ll try you out
Going to the island
30.15 Islands and tropical climes
30.28 Ice buckets…..ice flannels
30.46 I’m very resourceful
Last record - Grace Jones
30.55 She’s a ground breaking legend
31.02 I think of my own ancestry
31.18 It inspired one of my palettes
32.25 Instant glamour...instant gratification (Andy warhol book
32.10 The genesis of living in now (Andy Warhol)
32.48 I’ve gone with visuals…..I can’t scroll
32.59 What will make the island more bearable