The Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico City played host to Dior’s resort 2024 show this weekend, and the location informed a beauty moment rooted in the country’s perspective. A cast of predominantly Mexican models walked the cultural centre’s runway in looks that drew inspiration from Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

“The show is in this beautiful academy, this beautiful school — outside, it becomes too forced if you put too much make-up on. It’s much nicer if there’s a freshness to it,” says make-up artist and Dior Beauty creative director Peter Philips. “It’s almost like girls going to this school and taking in all of the Mexican culture and heritage and art and craftsmanship. There’s a freshness to it.”

To accompany hairstylist Guido Palau’s ouroboros braids — duets of plaits seamlessly connected behind the head, a visual pulled from Rivera’s Calla Lily Vendor — Philips embraced subtlety.