Smoothing on lipstick can be an elegant gesture-private, pleasurable, provocative. Ever since Robert Lee Morris, celebrated designer of sensual jewelry, got his hands the lowly lipstick case, just groping for a tube of Ember or Ritual Red seems positively passionate.
”Each time you lift it up a slight smile comes across that says, `Oh that`s nice.` It has a nice heft to it,” says the designer.
Morris applied his signature natural shapes to both a refillable lipstick case and compact for Elizabeth Arden. The limited edition of Rituals of Color will be available this month at Nordstrom in Oak Brook.
The gold-plated zinc alloy compact, which looks like a smooth gilded clam and weighs about four times as much, is formed from a hinged set of Morris`
well-known discs, the basic shape that spins through his necklaces and bracelets. Pry it open for a pearl of translucent pressed powder. The compact runs about $75. Powder refills (there may be blush refills later) run $10.
The $30 lipstick case, something of a glamorous twig, pulls apart to reveal one of six shades of lipstick. Refills cost $9.50 and are simple enough to change that customers might buy several to alternate in the same case.
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Morris says the switch from jewelry to cosmetics packaging is ”hardly a sidestep.”
”What women wear day in and day out becomes their statement of who they are, an extention of their identity. Designing both (jewelry and cosmetics) is a very intensively intimate process.”