Bearded & Tschorn: Galliano’s slightly erased pencil-thin mustache
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Checking out the Best Week Ever’s post-event snarkfests is one of our guilty pleasures, and the aftermath of the Metropolitan Museum’s 2009 Costume Institute Gala was no exception. We just couldn’t quite get our brain wrapped around the caption on the photo of fashion designer John Galliano with actress Marion Cotillard, which read: ‘Owner of the World’s Most Expensive Mustache Comb.’
Was this a far-too-subtle dig at Cotillard (for instance, instead of calling her ‘arm candy’?) No, that didn’t make sense on any level. And nothing either of them were wearing looked even the slightest bit comb- or brush-like.
My co-worker explained it like this: ‘1) He’s rich. 2) He has a mustache.’ OK, that makes sense, but have you seen Galliano’s ‘stache close up? I’ve only gotten as close as the front row of a Paris fashion show and from there it looks like it’s 90% eyeliner and 10% hair. Even in this picture, his pencil-thin mustache seems to have been hurriedly erased leaving only the faint gray impressions on Galliano’s upper lip.
Dude doesn’t look like he needs a comb so much as a hot washcloth and a warning to keep the pen out of his mouth.
It’s the second runway-related facial hair we’ve been alerted to in the last five days. At the Otis gala on Saturday night, we saw junior class design mentor and designer Todd Oldham sporting a serious beard. ‘He should enter in that beard competition in Alaska,’ said my table mate and designer Juan Carlos Obando as he pointed to Oldham.
If the category was ‘designer mustache,’ he’d probably place pretty well.
-- Adam Tschorn
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Photos, from top: Actress Marion Cotillard and designer John Galliano arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala in New York on Monday. Credit: Evan Agostini / Associated Press. Designer Todd Oldham at the Otis scholarship gala on Saturday. Credit: Andreas Branch for Patrick McMullan