“It’s just freedom. It’s like a relief.”
Cutting through the buzzy beauty and style trends forecasted for the 2024 year at Paris Fashion Week, our October 2023 cover star Pamela Anderson is making headlines for going fresh-faced and makeup-free during her Parisian jaunts to and from the season’s biggest shows.
“I didn’t come to Paris Fashion Week and think, ‘Oh I’m not going to wear any makeup!’” shared Anderson in a Vogue France get-ready-with-me video ahead of the Vivienne Westwood Spring Summer 2024 show. “I don’t know, something just kind of came over me and I was dressing in these beautiful clothes and I thought, ‘I don’t want to compete with the clothes. I’m not trying to be the prettiest girl in the room.’ I feel like it’s just freedom. It’s like a relief.” And off she went with a face base of DIY rose oil in place of foundation.
Paris Fashion Week—the last of the big four weeks, following New York City, London, and Milan—is considered to be the crème de la crème of fashion month. It churns out the grandest displays of opulence. The street style is impeccable. The glam is top-notch, and it’s the perfect excuse to indulge in over-the-top makeup and hairstyles.
For Anderson, it instead ended up serving as the ultimate stage to make a major no-makeup statement as she embarked on what she described on Instagram as “an adventure in Paris with fresh eyes.” From Vivienne Westwood and The Row to Isabel Marant and Victoria Beckham, this Canadian bombshell was a radiant beauty as she took on the City of Love in a public display of both self-love and acceptance sans makeup, ways away from her signature ’90s glam.
Since the release of the Pam & Tommy mini-series in 2022 and Anderson’s own tell-all Pamela, a love story documentary on Netflix earlier this year, we’ve been living in the era of the “Pam-aissance”. Having Anderson back on our screens has inspired a…
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