Magazine Beauty Awards recognize excellence in the cosmetics industry

Beauty has always maintained a close link with the world of art, a thousand-year-old and transcendental relationship to understand the cosmetics industry today, which this Monday celebrated its great reunion party -face-to-face- at the Thyssen Museum in Madrid together with to the Magazine of La Vanguardia.

The fashion, beauty and style header focused on the luxury sector of La Vanguardia gives its name to a new edition of the Magazine's Beauty Awards. An event in which the excellence of the beauty industry and the most outstanding advances in the field during this difficult stage of the pandemic have been recognized.

Confinement taught us the real value of a hairdresser or a perfumery"

Characters from the music and fashion scene, such as the singer Russian Red, the model Mar Flores, the writer Fiona Ferrer and the actresses Teresa Riott and Aida Folch, have gathered at the Madrid museum. After a high standard entrance that has been carried out by Maserati, with its new Ghibli Hybrid and Levante models, the celebrities have joined the rest of the guests to attend a private visit to the new exhibition of the indomitable American painter Georgia O'Keeffe at the Thyssen.

"The exhibition could not be more suitable for these Beauty Awards of the Magazine", the journalist Joana Bonet, editorial adviser of the Magazine Lifestyle and organizer of the event, has valued during her presentation, who has reported that it was precisely O'Keefe who carried out a large mural in 1936 for Elizabeth Arden's first salon in Manhattan, one of the award-winning signatures of the evening. "Georgia was not very clear about how to paint that concept of beauty, so Arden proposed that she do makeup to bring her closer to her world. And although she decided not to do makeup again after that experience, she did introduce innovative color techniques into her work, this important concept", Bonet explained.

It is this relationship between the arts that gives life to the Magazine's Beauty Awards, as well as its awards, in the form of paintings and named after great masters of painting, such as Monet, Paul Klee, Renoir and Cézanne. , among others.Miquel Molina, deputy director of La Vanguardia, highlighted during his speech the fact that "La Vanguardia has always had the intention of interpreting reality through art", a connection between both disciplines that is also closely linked with daily values.

Cayetana Guillén Cuervo was the godmother and presenter of the event, which was preceded by a meal sponsored by Bodegas Vegamar. The Spanish actress has not started the awards ceremony without first recalling the confinement and highlighting the importance of beauty and cosmetics during the confinement stage: "these are very special awards. The confinement taught us the real value of a hairdresser, or a perfumery, where the experts advise you and pamper you, where we feel reaffirmed", she pointed out.

Because the cosmetics and beauty industry goes far beyond appearance. It has been remembered by each winner who has taken the podium, as well as Aida Folch when explaining what the concept of beauty is for her. "It is everywhere, the look is important, seeing beauty in every step you take, the capacity for enjoyment and kindness. Beauty is something that emanates from within," she explained.

The first prize of the afternoon was named after Sorolla and highlighted Isdin's work for his Age Repair Color sunscreen. Oriol Rodríguez, Photoprotection Business Unit Manager of Isdin Spain, has collected the award for the best sunscreen on the market.

Sorolla Award. best sunscreen

Isdin Age Repair Color

To take a walk along the sea with Sorolla we need a straw hat, an umbrella, a veil that covers us to the feet, a luminous and flowing white dress and a good sunscreen. Age Repair Color by Isdin is a light facial photoprotector that protects and repairs the skin and reverses the main signs of sun exposure with high anti-photoaging technology.

The Director of Fragrances of the Shiseido company, Sonsoles Blanco, has collected the Renoir award for the best perfume of the year for the fragrance A Drop d'Issey on behalf of the firm Issey Miyake.

Renoir Prize. best perfume of the year

A Drop d'Issey by Issey Miyake

Renoir was the painter of women, of intimate moments and of floral sensations. The impressionist with more empathy. If he drew lilacs, jasmine and orange blossoms, A Drop d'Issey by Issey Miyake turns them into a fragrance. A Drop d'Issey is a drop that magnifies the fullness contained in nature. A unique floral signature blended with musk and almond milk that evokes Renoir's fields

It was followed by the Carolina Herrera house - in the hands of Puig's head of communication, Raquel Puentes - which has been awarded the Robert Delaunay Award for the most disruptive makeup for the Herrera Beauty collection.

Dalunay Award. More disruptive makeup

Herrera Beauty Collection by Carolina Herrera

Creator of Orphism, and master of abstraction, he carried out important studies on color. Together with Sonia Delaunay, he changed the history of art with simultaneity. She embodied the movement in fashion and design. Carolina Herrera's makeup collection is conceived as an extension of her fashion. Compacts and lipsticks that accompany as accessories hang like amulets. The icons of the Maison Herrera.

In the field of cosmetic advances, the Magazine has awarded the Paul Klee for best avant-garde cosmetic, Croma Pharma for its Pure Ha mask and María Cudeiro, Manager of Iberia General, has been responsible for collecting the award.

Paul Klee Award. Best avant-garde cosmetic

Chroma Pure Ha

“Art does not reproduce the visible, but rather makes it visible”, stated the abstract artist Paul Klee, for whom painting was a visionary instrument. Free, unclassifiable and master of the avant-garde. Pure Ha is the best kept secret for instant radiance. The liquid mask with the highest percentage of hyaluronic acid on the market: 1.8%.

Under the name of Monet, the firm Elisabeth Arden has received the award for best facial serum of the year for its innovative single-dose capsules Sérum de Ah. Joaquín Gordon, General Director of E. Arden has been commissioned to collect the award from the author Fiona Ferrer.

Monet Prize. best facial serum

Elizabeth Arden HA Serum Single-Dose Capsules

“My garden is my greatest work of art”, Monet proudly assured. Women in the Garden was a work rejected in its time whose dazzling sun achieved almost perfect white in the dresses of its protagonists. He never forgot the natural. Elizabeth Arden once again demonstrates that she is a pioneer in single-dose technology with her serum that restores skin hydration with ceramides and ginger extract. Its texture, unique, is equivalent to its effectiveness.

The Spanish luxury firm Loewe has also been awarded. On this occasion it was her perfume Paula's Ibiza that awarded her the Toulouse-Lautrec award for best perfume design and Lola Sánchez, General Director of Loewe Perfumes, was in charge of collecting the award.

Toulouse-Lautrec Prize. best perfume design

Paula's Ibiza by Loewe Perfumes

Toulouse-Lautrec was not a single day late for her workshop to watch over the printing of his lithographs. From The Women of Pigalle to At the Moulin Rouge, her work always breathed freedom and transgression. Paula's Ibiza by Loewe Perfumes conveys a passionate dialogue between design, image and haute perfumery. It has the hallmark of the JW Anderson collaboration.

French company La Cléde Peau has received the Cézanne award for best premium cosmetic line for its Beauté high-end cosmetic line. Ainhara Viñaras, General Director of the Prestige Division of the Shiseido company, has taken the stage to receive this special recognition.

Cezanne Prize. Best premium cosmetic line

La Cle de Peau Beaute

Cézanne started the entire modernist movement with his broken brushstrokes and the most vivid colors we remember. As he himself assured: "A painter must respond not with words, but with paintings." The Clé de Peau Beauté is the line of haute cosmetics preferred by Japanese women, and its formulas contain golden silk essence or Japanese pearl extract. Its exquisite formulas evolve every 4 years. It is Shiseido's premium line.

Dior has been chosen for these awards for her work in creating the Capture Totale anti-aging concealer. For this product, Sylvie Durcudoy, ​​Director of Communication Parfums Christian Dior, has received the Coubert Award for the best cosmetic research of the moment on behalf of the French maison.

Coubert Prize.

Dior Capture Total

Courbet was ahead of his time. His "total capture" of the female body showed a religious society what the origin of the world was. Being the only boy in his family gave him another sensibility. Dior combines stem cells with floral science to offer the ultimate anti-aging correction in Capture totale, a benchmark in the market.

Juan Gris has named the following award, which marks the new line of Uterqüe perfumes as the best perfume-accessory of the year. Tamara Taboas, manager of Public Relations and Communication, has collected the award on behalf of the firm.

Juan Gray Award. Best perfume-accessory

Uterque perfumes

Juan Gris renounced the Renaissance and naturalist perspective. He came to greater purity and harmony thanks to his analytical cubism. He, along with María Blanchard, were the forerunners of the new Cubism after Picasso. The new line of Uterqüe perfumes also reduces design to a utilitarian abstraction. Its version of perfume plus solid stick will accompany us on each multisensory journey.

The Van Gogh Award for best eye product went to Guerlain for its Abeille Royal Eye serum and Sandra Vogeler, General Manager of Guerlain, received the mention on behalf of the firm.

Van Gogh Award. best eye product

Guerlain Abeille Royal Eye Serum

Van Gogh's least known work is his four notebooks. Sketches in which the color of scenes and landscapes of Paris and Antwerp stands out and proposals of didactic value that show us The artist's gaze. Guerlain delights us with its Abeille Royal eye serum. An association of honey, royal jelly and tensor polymers that leaves a lifting effect as a result.

The director of the Magazine, David Dusster, has delivered the following prize of the gala. Under the name of Camille Corot, Rituals has received the award for best body line for its Body Mousse To Oil, in the hands of Raquel Álvarez, Head of Iberian Marketing at Rituals.

Camille Corot Award. best body line

Rituals Body Mousse To Oil

Camille Corot was the most famous landscape painter in France. A member of the Barbizon school, he began Impressionism with his work. He believed that nature had to be interpreted with “simplicity”. Body Mousse To Oil is a foam that transmits The Ritual of Mehr revitalizing energy of sweet orange and cedar to the skin. Helps to illuminate and provides the perfect hydration.

The last award of the evening went to Paco Rabanne for his Invictus Victory perfume. Ana Diez, Puig's Communication Executive Spain, has attended the event to collect the Gauguin Award for the best male perfume of the year for the Spanish firm.

Gauguin Award. best men's perfume

Invictus Victory by Paco Rabanne

Paul Gauguin did not receive the recognition he deserved in life, but he remained undefeated. His travels to Polynesia and his simplification of forms and his symbolic use of color elevated him in the history of art. The ingredients of Invictus Victory are delicately extracted from tropical America. Vanilla blends with a fiery Tonka bean to create a scent that captivates and distinguishes.