The makeup and movie industries have ever been cross-pollinizing each other with their respective talents. This time the Shu Uemura brand concluded an original type of collaboration with Wong Kar Wai whose creativity inspired the development of a holiday season collection. Indeed, what’s more logical that the encounter between a film director and a brand that share the same passion for colours?

As part of this unique collaboration, the film director shot a short film inspired by Charles Bukowsky’s poem Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame. An opportunity for the artist to call up again its vision of femininity, which fluctuates between nostalgia and modernity.

The new "red and blue" makeup collection by Shu Uemura contains colours inspired by the atmosphere of Wong Kar Wai’s short film. Each pack in the series is decorated with a scene from the film, and another replaces each of these images when viewed from different angles.

If Wong Kar Wai is the man who inspired the collection, Kakuyasu Uchiide, Shu Uemura’s international artistic director, is the man who was responsible for making-up Sandrine Pina, the young Taiwanese actress playing the main role in the film. "Regarding Sandrine’s make-up, I immediately associated the heat of passion to love. I wanted to remind the source of deep emotions and express love in a more daring way. So I used a blue make-up for the eyes, accentuated with silver glitter, in order to express vital energy," he said.