Dior Milestone: Makeup Maestro

PARIS — Peter Philips has a clear vision of today’s Dior woman. “I create for a woman who’s not afraid to express herself. She’s not afraid of color and likes to change,” said the creative and image director for Christian Dior makeup, while sitting in his rooftop, A-frame office on Paris’ Right Bank that is chockablock with books, photographs and products. “She is a very playful woman, who likes to experiment. It [sounds] clichéd, but the Dior woman is multifaceted,” he continued, explaining she is also fearless about her femininity. “She looks to the catwalk, the beauty counter, the perfume shop. She mixes and matches.” Philips is Dior’s third makeup maestro — following Tyen, who held the position between 1980 and 2014, and Serge Lutens, whose tenure lasted from 1967 to 1980. Just three years into the role at Dior, Philips said he learned a lot about the house while working on a retrospective beauty book, “The Art of Color,” which was released internationally by Rizzoli New York last year. “It really gave me the opportunity, in a playful way, to discover, not with the goal of making a collection or creating a color…through photography and the work of Serge Lutens and Tyen, what makeup

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