Vincent Longo
Vincent Longo (born May 28, 1961) is an Australian/Italian make-up artist, beauty expert, and cosmetics entrepreneur, best known for his work with numerous celebrities and fashion photographers for fashion shows, red carpets, and magazine covers and editorials. In particular, he has created cover, editorial, runway and red-carpet “beauty looks” for models, actors and public personalities including Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Heidi Klum, Claudia Schiffer, Elle MacPherson, Julia Roberts, Sigourney Weaver, Hillary Clinton, Ivana Trump, Gwyneth Paltrow, Diane Lane, Claire Danes, Geri Halliwell, Isabella Rossellini and Catherine Deneuve, among many others, earning scores of magazine covers in the process. Born in Swan Hill, Australia, to Italian immigrant parents, his family relocated to Ventimiglia, Italy, when he was 17. In Milan, he studied make-up artistry, and worked with Italian designers Gianni Versace, Giorgio Armani, Mariuccia Mandelli, Gianfranco Ferré, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana and Franco Moschino. In 1988, at the encouragement of Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, and Vogue editor Michela Bardini, Longo moved to New York City, where he worked with fashion photographers Patrick Demarchelier, Gilles Bensimon, Richard Avedon, and Bruce Weber.