Dick Page reveals his truest colors
The other side of make-up artist Dick Page
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Text:Tiffany Godoy Photo:Courtesy of Jed Root Translation:Miho Matsumoto
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- I've heard that you love food and you have a secret spot around Tokyo Station.
- I love the curry places or the salmon-set places. Just regular Tokyo places. You get your ticket from the machine and you order and 40 seconds later it's there with salmon and natto and they play techno music for some reason. The first time I went to a whisky bar in Tokyo they were serving horse. I was thinking: "Who made this up? I'm eating raw horse and drinking whisky."
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- You did Victoria Beckham's make-up for the Marc Jacobs campaign. You also do Drew Barrymore's make-up sometimes.
- Yes, Victoria has booked me a few times after that. With Drew it's sometimes. Drew's got an amazing face - exactly the same face as when she was in E.T., except she's grown.
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- Working in fashion these days means you must do the makeup for a fair share of celebrities?
- Yes, with Mario Sorrenti we did a portrait of John Waters for French Vogue, and I went along to do his make-up. Who wouldn't want to do John Waters' make-up? I didn't even want to do anything -- I just wanted to meet him. He said he goes into training before awards season every year [studying who's had what work done]. You walk down the red carpet and you don't want to scream when they turn around, so you have to do your homework because it's so horrifying!
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- It seems like one of one of the biggest perks of your job is the people you meet.
- On the fashion side the models are all just children, it's very bizarre. I've got shoes older than most of them. They're like: "I feel so old, I was born in 1991." I do some occasional work with Julianne Moore and Isabella Rossellini, who I love. I work a lot with Catherine Zeta Jones. She's hilarious, she's a very down-to-earth Welsh girl. Even though I'm British I grew up very close to the border [with Wales], so it's only 45 minutes from my house to hers. Few people are down-to-earth like that.
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- Japanese people are very different. It's all about self-design here.
- Every single point on their look for the day is calculated. Like the idea of that magazine about men's hair, Choki Choki. I have a problem with deliberate hair. Deliberate hair is a real turn off for me. It's not sexy.
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- But in Tokyo it's all about deliberate.
- It's the manga thing. For me sexy for a man is like a cheap, bad barbershop haircut with the wrong corners and lines on the back. There never used to be men's grooming kits and men's make-up you see here now. All of that is fantastic; it's much better than what's happening in the rest of the world.
