Giambattista Valli for MAC

MAC announced its upcoming collaboration with designer Giambattista Valli who is very well-known for his wonderful gowns. The flora-inspired lipstick collection is launching next summer and will consist of five lipsticks, packaged in matching cases, with a matt finish ranging from petal pink to deep purple, as well as a lip gloss. In the designer's own words:

"I'm very well known for dresses, no? And I thought it was very nice, the idea of dressing your lips. For a creative person, collaborating can be frustrating because you feel that you're limited or stuck within someone else's ideas, but with MAC it was 100 per cent freedom and 100 per cent support just to make my idea become a reality, to pull out my flowers and my sense and my emotion and put it into the colour."

"The best thing about make-up is that a lipstick can really change your look. If you never wear colour on your lips and then one day you wear red, everyone just goes 'wow!' I made these for a woman with personality, a woman who lives her life and isn't afraid to wear colour and isn't afraid to kiss."

Elina P.