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PETER PHILIPS
Since 2014, Peter Philips has held the role of creative and image director for Christian Dior Makeup. His earliest make-up memories include, ‘old movies, admiring screen goddesses, the power of light and shadow, clowns at the circus, mum’s eye make-up, the Eurovision Song Contest and magazines’. His first big shoot came during a men’s fashion story shot by Willy Vanderperre and styled by Olivier Rizzo in the mid Nineties. ‘I painted a Mickey Mouse on a boy’s face and that look left an impression. The shoot gave us lots of exposure and recognition,’ he says. In this issue, Peter created make-up looks for the Dior beauty feature.
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JEANETTE WINTERSON
Award-winning author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson says she can work anywhere – ‘but I love to write in my house in the Cotswolds. I have lived there for 30 years and it feels like an extension of myself.’ Her new book of ghost stories, Night Side of the River, is in part inspired by A Christmas Carol: ‘I loved its joyous message that there is always another chance – even if it is from beyond the grave.’ For ELLE, she writes about a supernatural visit.
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DINA ASHER-SMITH
She is the fastest woman in British history, a two-time Olympic medallist and six-time World Championship winner. The thing she loves most about sprinting? ‘When the gun goes, it’s just all or nothing. There’s no holding back’. Driven by wanting to be the best, she uses the mantra ‘nothin
