From Kate Moss to “Catwoman”. Alexis Stowe, the celebrity lookalike who wows at Fashion Week

A larger-than-life Jennifer Coolidge attended Diesel’s Fall/Winter 2023-2024 show at Milan Fashion Week this Wednesday, February 23rd. However, the actress of the series White lotus was not among the guests of the program. Behind many layers of makeup, a blonde wig, dentures and other facial prosthetics, Alexis Stone was actually hiding. The London-based makeup artist, known for his spectacular star makeovers, had struck again.

Remember. It was she who created the event in the front row of the Balenciaga haute couture fall-winter 2022-2023 fashion show, disguised as Jocelyn Wildenstein, aka “the cat woman.” Or at Paris Fashion Week in March 2022, when she posed as Madame Doubtfire, the fictional character played by Robbie Williams in the film of the same name.

“Transformer”

Alexis Stone, whose real name is Elliott Joseph Rentz, is far from his first experience. This brush virtuoso has been practicing his chameleon talent for more than ten years. Moreover, the professional makeup artist presents himself as a “transformer” on his Instagram page, where he is followed by more than 900 thousand subscribers. To her credit, she has over 250 celebrity makeovers, including Cher, Madonna, Barbra Streisand and Kate Moss to name a few. A stunning body of work, which he systematically documents with images on his Youtube channel, and which has made him (almost) as famous as the faces he portrays, thanks to his striking front row appearances at fashion shows.

His unsettling similarities to the personalities he bears have even led some to question their real presence. “You won’t really know what’s real and what’s not. As an artist, this is my goal. to make sure that people don’t know where something starts and ends,” he said in an interview with the American publication. fashion made after Balenciaga’s spring-summer 2023 show, where she appeared as Dolly Parton after six hours of getting ready.

A multitude of faces

Frustrated with the tools to express her own vision of beauty, Alexis Stone launched her own makeup brand, Sensorium, in 2021, designed “not to fit you, but to transform you.” In an interview with the American magazine paper at the time, the drag queen confirmed that her cosmetics line was aimed at those “who are not inspired by current beauty standards” but “who want to rebel.” And concluding by revealing his philosophy that never left him. “One life, as many faces as possible.”