Page 42 - vol 1

Hollywood Stars

a path that would allow him to mo-
ve to Italy. He worked in television
and on music videos in Rome before
moving to Milan where he found his
true passion in the Fashion Industry.
One of the most important milesto-
nes of his career came when he be gan
to assist the legendary top makeup
artist Pat McGrath. For over a deca de
he worked with her on the world’s top
runway shows and with the world’s
most prestigious and creative de-
signers. The opportunity to assist
on pho toshoots with supermo dels
and legendary photographers like
Ste ven Meisel have helped Aaron
grow into the artist he is today.
AARON He has also assisted many other ma-
keup industry greats like Gucci West-
SMITH man, Tom Pecheux, Val Garland,
Dia ne Kendal, and Peter Philips.

HENRIKSON As an independent artist he even
creates
and
clothing
designs
and acces sories. He believes crea-
tivity doesn’t have strict boundaries
Makeup Artist for MADONNA | Visual and that we should follow our pas-
Artist, Cunning Linguist, Fashion Explorer sion wherever it takes us. He still lo-
ves to curate fashion styling, costume
design, and playful experimenta-
tion in his photography. You can
Aaron Smith Henrikson was born in California follow some of his colorful images
and adventures around the world
and was fortunate to grow up in a community with on his instagram @visionaaron.
Aaron has been fortunate to work
people from many different backgrounds and cultures with ma ny of the top photographers
and magazines in the fashion indust-
in Venice Beach, California. ry like Italian Vogue. He has worked
with the most respected fas hion
photographers like Mert & Mar-
is interest in different sity. He applied these skills in ear- cus, Steven Klein, Tom Munroe,
lan guages and cultures y experiments to make people and Michel Comte.
H motivated him to study transform in photos that he took
German, Spanish, French, Italian, for his photography courses. This He is passionate about life and living

Por tuguese, Arabic, Mandarin Chi- also ga ve him the opportunity to fall creatively while sharing and spreading
ne se, and Japanese. This interest in love with the art of makeup when positivity in his tra vels around
also translates into his broad view trying to make people look better the world. He loves to help others
and appreciation of beauty around in photos. learn and improve and has inhe-
the world. His artistic studies rited some of his love for teaching
also include many art courses Other photographers soon requested from his father, who was a high
in drawing, painting, graphic de sign, Aaron to help with makeup for their school science teacher. In fact,
and photography at Yale Uni ver- photos too. From here he started Aaron has helped consult from ma-

42 365 ART + | Hollywood Stars