The colour of life and death, love and desire, innocence and experience... Contained within this colour of extremes are many metaphors for the emotional dichotomies of life. And it is those emotional extremes that Lucia Pica, CHANEL Global Creative Makeup and Colour Designer, seeks to evoke in her debut collection for CHANEL Beauty. For Fall 2016, CHANEL LE ROUGE · COLLECTION N°1 explores the abstract and expressive resonances of the colour red while reconfiguring its role in beauty. At times, Lucia Pica seeks to transform the traditional role of red, at once celebrating and subverting its classic status as the preeminent colour for lipstick, blush and nail varnish. While still partaking in the search for the iconic and classic in each area of the collection, Pica also confounds expectations and takes the red into unexpected realms, particularly that of eye makeup, evoking emotion and passion here too.