In 2022, Chanel revealed the names of three make-up artists who would mark a new beauty chapter for the house: Ammy Drammeh, Cécile Paravina and Valentina Li. Together, they form the Cometes Collective, a trio of emerging and visionary talents assembled to ‘breathe new life into the Chanel art of make-up’ with work that would be ‘written in the present while paying homage to the past.’
Between Drammeh, who lives in London and was tapped as one to watch by the British Fashion Council’s New Wave Creatives list in 2019, the Paris-based Paravina (she studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and counts Serge Lutens as one of her mentors) and the Chinese-born Li – fluent in four languages and part of the BoF 500, her signature electric blue bob reflects the eclecticism she brings to Chanel – 2024 has been a standout year for the Cometes Collective
