Profile: SACHA LILIC International Make-Up Artist - Alexander Baron

Sacha Lilic is 24 years old and began his working life as a
hairdresser. Sacha, whose surname is pronounced 1111-itch with a
slight stress on the first
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syllable, was born in Yugoslavia, has
Russian blood, and grew up in Germany and France. Now a
successful make up artist in constant demand internationally, he
has worked in London, Nassau Bahamas, and all over the United
States as well as Germany, France and Italy. A cosmopolitan in
every sense of the word, he is fluent in five languages: Serbo Croat,
French, German, Russian and, fortunately, English. He also has a
smattering of Spanish and Italian; he speaks with a thick, Profile: rofile:
International ational
his models, not himself hr
wanted Sachu to work on.
Sacha Litic is 24 years old and began his wo{i1e. ritu
1? "
One thing led to another and he
was soon doing make up for Faxbk,
and another German fashion
photographer, Klaus Rudolph,
who is currently shooting for
Spanish magazine Marie-Clare.
He did a lot more work with
Klaus and Werner, and this led
lsim into doing make up for
films. Sacha uses the quaint oldfashioned
Americanism
almost "movies" to describe anything
shot on celluloid. He became
involved with Roland Emme-
syrupy French accent.
rich, a German film director: a lot
Model Journal caught up with Sacha in between stops at the office
YOUNG. Agencv: WILHELMINAS N Y'
of his London agent, Alex Michon of Elite. Like Sacha, Elite is Does he set
phoioqrapher: KANAREK
international; they have offices in New York, Paris, Milan and trends or
have just opened one in Moscow.
follow them?
Nico, a fashion designer who
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Sucha's parents left Yugoslavia
had decided to pusan a "Russian
^ He dismisses
when he was six years old, by Alexander Baron night with far and glimmer." To
'probably for economic and poi-
keep expenses down the two of both
sedttction
itical reasons," he can't be sure. nary state hairdressing school he them recruited the models for the
He was raised by an aunt in Paris found himself attending courses show in the street. (Note - don't suggestions as
until he was eight or nine then in Paris and working in London ever accept such an invitation).
moved to Germany with his par- with Vidal Sassoon, During his Just for fan they invited a lot of ridiculous...
ents.
somewhat unusual apprentice- people from the fashion world to
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fiT;l"t;;; i*"iicanism
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fOllOW them?
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Plrotographer: BENJAMIN gfNJAMIN KANAREK for {or L'0FFlClAL
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ship he learned beauty treatment, anend the show, and surprisingly
With wirh his unquestionable unquesrionable flair massage and make up, but never a lot of them accepted. Sacha
more film work followed. Hr
forlanguages a career in interpre- considered a career in make up. laughs in his thick French ac- has worked on numerous cornting
or even the diplomatic corp
cent, "What else do you do on a mercials in Germany and in the
might have been a more natural
USA. Stateside he has also
Wednesday night?
choice, but he never even gave ...most of the
worked on"andergroand films."
that a thought because "I hate
Although mast of the guests He most unusual project though
wearing ties," he laughs. His guests were were better dressed than the was working on an American
first serious ambition was to
models, this proved to be another horror film called Hollywood
become a fashion designer, but better dressed taming point in Sacha's already Monsters. This involved learn-
he started work as a trainee hair-
extraordinary career. He met top ing about special effects: creadresser
in what he says was than the
German fashion photographer ting zombies, making up
small salon in a little village in
Werner Pavlokwho asked him if detached heads and all sorts of
the south of Germany, "unim- models...
he had done the make up for the other delightful projects. Sacha
portant, but with international
show. When Sachn said he had, said this was enjoyable bat ex
connections." The salon itself
Pavlok asked him if he would tremely hard and time consum-
may have been unimportant but
its owner appears to halve as-
Sacha is notoriously rague and like to do the same for him. ing work.
somewhat reluctant to discuss Sacha eyed him up and down
pired to greater things, and sent
his early career, but says he did and replied somewhat naively In 1986 Sacha became involved
his people oat to learn their trade
internationally. So although
his first show in 1984 or 85 in that he wasn't sure, but the wills UPART AGENCY in Ger-
Stuttgart, Germany. Hr met photographer explained it was many, then was sent to Paris to
Sacha graduated from an ordi.
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1990 MODEL MODEL JOURNAL
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SACF{A
MaR{e*Up
work for tor the Lucy St Clure Clare plainingolainine that he uses his own ow!
Agency. According to lo Sacha the style, ltyle, and ard so should everyone
agency aqencv was a a mess, and cllo hat DUt far ror else. else, People who try sitfiply simplY to
Carole C-aro|i....... would have collapsed.lapscd.
Eventually Evcntually Carole Crrolc left
thi the agency ild and her clients fol- Sacha has
lowed her. Sacha continued to
work For lbr Carole and, alter alier naeet- meeF very very) definite
lug ing one of Elite's bookers in
Paris Paiis earlier this this year, year, began ideas about
working for them as well, well.
Recently Sachr Sacha has heen been doing
fashion work in Miami, Mimi. His magazinegazine
credits ctedits include Miss Miss
Vogue. Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan, New N-ew
Woman, Ritz, Officiel: Ofnciel; a veritable
parade ptrade of of
internationally intemationally respected resPected big big
names. nmes, He also does make up uP
for German mail order catalogues,iogues,
explaining that although
"My job is to
bring a kind of
harmony into
the whole
picture."
such assignments ssignments are arc not u.s as glaglamourous as the big big fashion magazinessuines
they are arc still bread bread and md
butter Eufter work. work "Editorial doesn't d@sn't
pay much," he says.
Dress wise one might miSht not unnaturally
expect a make ap uP artist anist
to be beovert,extravagant overt, extravagant eveu,but even, but
Sacha dresses down rather Bther than
ap; up; he tamed tumed up at Elite's Long
Acre office wearing a black
leather jacket and matching
biack black hat. Another contradiccontradlction
about Sacha is his his laid back buck
attitude. Most people people who work
non-stop uou-stop for long Periods, periods, as he
dws, does, seem to thrive thnve on on stress. sftss
Not only does Sacha Sucha nke take this this all alt
in his stride, stdde, he says he he has no no
ambitions, mbitions, or more prccisely, precisely, no no
plans plms for forthe the future, future. He says emem-
phatically ;haticallv he d@s does not intend intend to to
get iret.url"a married in ten years, Yem, but bur a
house Eouw in five years yeus or run his his life
to any my sort of timetable. timetable. His
plans, olms, in as much as 6 he plans Plms
anything, lnything, include inchde fashion designing,nins,
but for the moment this
remains remlins a hobby. Sacha sees his
role as a make up uP artist afrist to create
something sofiething for ior a photographer,
photogmpher,
though he hr works with thc the pho(ophotograpiergrapher rather rallier than lbr for him, him, the lhe
photographer or or the client has has
the final word.
"My job is to lo bring a a kind of
hmony harmony into the wholePictute."
whole picture."
Somebody else creates the basic
imase image md and he completes it, it, addinfding
a face on top top which he
thinks would match it. Although
he has very definite ideas about
creative freedom he does d@s think it
is important importmt not to "usurp" the the
phot