“If Joan Crawford was Hannibal Lecter’s mistress” Was Val Garland’s description of the makeup look at Gareth Pugh.

It wouldnt be a Pugh show without something a little more off-key. This element came in the shape of a piece of American tan stocking secured behind the ears and pulled tight under the nose and cheekbones – “so it looked as if the girl had a face full of filler,” she said. “painfully gorgeus – like a forties mannequin in a shop window advertising Ponds Cold Cream.”