MAC Marcel Wanders Collection

You need to have Marcel Wanders in context before you even take a look at this collaboration with MAC. Marcel is a Dutch designer – interiors, architectural and contemporary design, and a luminary in his field. A good example of his work is this Crochet Cube.

His work can be seen in the V&A, and New York’s Museum of Modern Art. He focusses on making the ordinary – say, a chair or a plate – and making it extraordinary..So, you might wonder what someone who is more used to fancy furniture doing collaborating with MAC. Marcel Wanders is a house-hold name in design circles, but pretty well unheard of in the world of cosmetics. It’s quite a daring collaboration – on the one hand, it’s making the name of Marcel Wanders known to thousands of us who wouldn’t normally enter his orbit, and yet on the other hand, it’s like, Marcel WHO? It’s hardly Disney. Wanders has definitely brought the design edge to the collection but I wonder if it’s wasted. I’m looking now at a palette of face powder in a black faceted design that is off kilter – so it doesn’t open where you expect it to. All very clever, but in reality a little bit annoying. Inside, the powder is beautifully carved with an intricate design reminiscent of a carved ceiling rose and you can instantly see – from looking at the above chair as an indicator – that the Wanders touches are there. Anyway, I can’t think too hard about this – it’s a slick and glossy collection that looks sleek, but I don’t think anyone’s going to be mobbing you in the street when you touch up your lips to ask if the stick is from the Marcel Wanders collection. It launches here in December.

Sheer Mystery Powder
Genisa Lipstick
False Black Mascara
Lipglass


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9 responses to “MAC Marcel Wanders Collection”

  1. As an adult with an appreciation for good design, I’ve got to say that I bought from the Venomous Villains collection despite the packaging, not because of. This on the other hand makes me want the entire range, irrespective of the products contained within. Do you happen to know when in December it will be available?

  2. wow i really like the designs, it turns make-up into ART!
    http://www.kisstomake-up.blogspot.com

  3. I like some of the lipsticks and lipglass shades, but the prices are putting me off, $22 for a lipstick instead of the normal $14.50? That will translate to about £20 I’m guessing. I’ll pay that for Guerlain but not Mac. :S

  4. I love the designs. But how many collections can Mac release in a year? Seriously, it’s one a month at the moment! x

  5. Penelope

    Love the gorgeous packaging!

  6. faye lu review

    great post and preview =) … not sure about the packaging – it’s so out there. MAC is really pumping out a lot of collections 2010-11 i can’t keep up.

  7. This collection is absolutely gorgeous…beautiful…strangely… they now don’t look like MAC products LOL.

  8. Eileen

    Since MAC’s major demographic is teens and young “twenty somethings”, I think this collection will just get lost in the shuffle of the ever increasing number of collections MAC has been releasing. Although the products appear to be very attractive, there is nothing edgy, cutting edge, or cartoonish about it. So, how did this end up with MAC? I’d expect case designs like this more from a mid-range line like Lancôme.

  9. WOW! Something actually DIFFERENT from MAC! I loke the look of these!

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