To find an inspiration for the autumn/winter make-up collection, Lucia Pica, Chanel’s global creative make-up and colour designer, has embarked on a Californian road trip.

Her idea was startling in its simplicity: ­to experience afresh the lights and colours of the outside world, creating a complete starting point for her creative process. From the dawn mists and sun-dappled coastline to the city lights and gritty noir of downtown LA, Pica embraced the serendipitous creative possibilities afforded when the journey becomes the destination.

Her eye for new and unexpected colour combinations brings a new sense of poetry to the collection: “The feeling was depth and freedom,” she said.

For example, Les 4 Ombres road movie eyeshadow palette, with its satiny green-blue of the sea, satiny copper, matte sone beige and dark blue-green with grey undertone, presented itself to Pica almost fully-formed.

For nails, Le Vernis Horizon line captures the pale, soft greenish grey of the sea on a cloudy day with almost watercolour perfection.

The centrepiece of the collection is Palette Essentielle, available in three shades: beige clair, beige medium and beige intense. Each palette offers a three-in-one sleek, handbag-friendly compact.

For eyes, a darkness and intensity; for lips, the brightest pop colours; the shades of the two Les 4 Ombres eyeshadows are inspired by the outdoors.

Chanel’s deep black Eyeliner Pen is a new fluid, intense and smooth formula that is both waterproof and smudge-proof. Eyes are further intensified by an entirely new range of Stylo Sourcils waterproof eyebrow pencils in natural-looking shades.

For the lips, the colour spectrum runs from nude beige through effervescent corals to burnished reds.

Le Vernis Horizon line for the nails is a soft greenish grey; Le Vernis New Dawn is a muted taupe-grey.

Chanel is distributed by Alfred Gera & Sons Ltd.

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