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Female Singapore
|March 2022
Resilience, dependability, sustainability and health, or so says Peter Philips – the creative and image director of makeup at Dior Beauty. Gordon Ng speaks with the beauty expert on how he’s channelled all that to make the brand’s popular Dior Forever range of foundations even better.
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“It was already a very good foundation,” says Peter Philips. The creative and image director of Dior Beauty is talking to four journalists – us, the only representative from Singapore, included – over Zoom about Dior Forever, the high-coverage, long-wearing, and transfer-resistant range of foundations that debuted in 2007. Last month, the brand released a new version with an improved formula.
For beauty consumers, “reformulation” can be a scary word. If it’s managed poorly, a brand runs the risk of losing dedicated fans and users. In the case of Dior Forever, that’s an, ahem, base that’s been successively built over 15 years. “My main goal was just to make sure that we don’t become worse,” jokes Philips.
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