Some time ago I announced a new collection coming out from this spring. The collection, named Love & Water, is designed in collaboration with China’s foremost fashion photographer Chen Man. The launch of the collection, scheduled for March 2012, is just around the corner, and I’ve found some great sneak peek photos to share with you, guys. As you can see on the products line-up, the Love & Water collection offers a full range of standard MAC products, from pigments to nail polishes.

The shades of pink and blue are the central theme of the collection, symbolizing the love and water, which are Chen Man’s constant sources of inspiration. There is no official information about the prices for the US market but, thanks to the beaut.ie website, I’ve found pricing information for the European market. The prices shown in this article are converted according to the current exchange rates.

Chen Man Mac Cosmetics

There is no such thing as a clear-cut boundary between fashion photography and so-called artistic photography in China. The female photographer Chen Man 陈曼 (born in 1980 in Beijing) might exemplify this phenomenon. Graduated from the photography department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2005, Chen Man has been working on both personal projects and commissioned works for luxury fashion brands and authoritative magazines, such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, and Vision. One of the chief visual vocabularies of Chen Man is photomontage. “Some people consider that to be fake art,” she says, “but Photoshop is just a tool for the making of my art works, it doesn’t define them.

My generation is really into computer reality, a reality that we can control and perfect in the way we choose.” Through her eccentric digital manipulations, Chen Man creates an ethereal world inhabited by fantasy creatures – mostly female – appearing under the guise of contemporary beauties or alternative mythological figures. More information:.

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