Instagram reinvented portrait. One of them, painted in the 16th century, has transcended centuries and still is the incarnation of beauty as it is considered nowadays. This is the portrait of Gabrielle d’Estrées. What kind of influencer would this extraordinary modern woman be in our time?
WHO IS JEAN D’ESTREES?
D’Estrées: this name that sounds so contemporary, is the name of a great man of the beauty world who inherited from beautiful Gabrielle the taste for harmony, colour, detail as well as the taste for natural perfection. And the culture of genuine luxury: Jean d’Estrées banished the artificial and average from his institutes; he initiated the smoothness of curves, the lightness of materials, the emotional precision.
How many hollywood celebrities owe him their fatal glance, their disarming smile and their clear complexion? Lauren Bacall, Rita Hayworth, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis. But also Jeanne Moreau, Claudia Cardinale and others.
JEAN D’ESTREES AND MAKEUP
It was not on movie sets where spotlights are a bit too bright, but thanks to the light of paintings, to the smoothness of painters’ brushes that this great makeup artist has learned how to shape a face. He created the techniques that have become renowned makeup techniques used all over the world such as contouring, strobing or glowing. His tips to balance thin lips, open the eyes or sculpt the ovale of the face are the basics for a successful makeup.
JEAN D’ESTREES, CREATOR OF VISAGISM
Jean d’Estrées has created Visagism. Being a visagist means being able to enhance in each personality what makes it attractive, captivating or unique just by drawing a line, making-up, applying a cream, a mask or a lotion.
JEAN D’ESTREES, SKINCARE EXPERT
Visagist and also visionary: Jean d’Estrées understood before his contemporaries that it is impossible to get a nice makeup if the skin was not treated in first place. He always massaged a face before applying his shadows and he created the most nurturing, embellishing creams by taking inspiration from ancestral plant elixirs such as Gabrielle d’Estrées’s white lily mask or his friends secrets recipes like Viven Leigh makeup remover but also by praising dermatological peelings and cosmetic surgery as youth methods.
His positive and holistic vision of youth nourishes the skincare ranges that still carry his name while it is still influencing the new international cosmetics trends.
JEAN D’ESTREES AND THE INSTITUTES
Nowadays, Jean d’Estrées’s mission is to create targeted techniques and skincare and makeup products in partnership with a selective distribution in order to sublimate women’s beauty.
