Lancôme Unveils New Beauty Range

Beauty brand Lancôme has provided the first glimpse of its new spring-summer collection, its first by Lancôme's new international artistic director Gucci Westman. Inspired by an eclectic range of sources from classic films to peacock feathers, the collection called Spring-Summer 2005 in French Riviera by Gucci Westman, the first for a beauty brand by the US-based makeup artist, claims to offer a modern take on old-style glamour.

"When thinking about the collection, I thought about the women I adore the most-Grace Kelly for example-but I wanted to do a modern interpretation [of this], so it is not retro but has a more feminine feeling," Westman explained at a presentation in Paris. "I knew I wasn't allowed to do everything at once and I didn't want to change everything. I wanted to incorporate my own ideas and add a little bit of playfulness." Promoted by American actress Drew Barrymore, the collection will launch internationally in January at all Lancôme points-of-sale, priced from £12.50 to £50.