Digital: Dior Makeup Works with MNSTR to Explore the Future of Beauty with an Instagram AR Filter Introducing the “Dior Makeup Holiday 2020” Look

“In recent years, augmented beauty has principally been confined to replicating or mimicking reality, by allowing you, for example, to try on lipstick in augmented reality, or to correct it by refining our faces, magnifying our eyes or smoothing our skin etc… We proposed to Dior Make up to take a new step and use technology to promote personal and creative expression,” explains Perrine Lizé, Executive Director and co-founder of MNSTR.

For the first time, Dior Makeup launches an ‘AR Makeup’ filter.

Co-created by Peter Philips, Creative and Image Director for Dior Make-up and 3D Make-up Artist Inès Alpha, the filter was developed in order to amplify and enhance the 2020 Dior Holiday Make-up collection. The idea here isn’t simply to mimic reality, but to give life to the imaginary.

The experience officially launches December 13 through a film and targeted micro-influence campaign conceived by MNSTR.

“For Dior and the “Happy 2020” collection, I created, in collaboration with Peter Philips, a filter and a 3D make-up to accompany the “IRL” (in real life) make-up look. Makeup3D is inspired by this “explosive” and very festive collection. Glitters, sequins, fireworks were the keywords that helped me in the design of this piece. 3D make-up isn’t just a filter, it’s made with more advanced production software, giving a much more realistic and integrated result in the end. As if the 3D makeup was there in front of us, that we could almost touch it. My ambition with 3D make-up is to offer my vision of the make-up of the future, to make it palpable. That’s why Peter and I decided to develop this teaser film that will allow people, I hope, to project themselves into the future of beauty,” explains Inès Alpha.

A new virtual market is emerging

If we’re in an era where the representation of beauty is shared primarily through digital and social networks, why aren’t the products also digital?

“Augmented Reality is a way for people to express themselves. Exploring our identity in a digital world has become the new norm when it comes to experiencing reality. If Oscar Wilde told us that “beauty is in the eyes of the beholder”, at MNSTR we are convinced that it is increasingly in the eyes of the person who expresses it” explains Guillaume Carrère, Director of Strategic Planning at MNSTR.

“The market for “cryptographic” objects – objects only available in the virtual world – has, according to Forbes, exceeded $200 billion for the first time this year, largely driven by the video game industry. But it seems more than likely that this digitalization of products will extend to other sectors such as fashion and beauty,” concludes Lionel Curt.