Backstage star

PAT MCGRATH

When Pat McGrath is chef de cabine at a show then you know you’re dealing with an A-list designer. Because Pat only does the greats on earth. Or she’s got to have tremendous trust in you and wants to give you a break and give your models a killer look with her thirty to fifty bags of makeup.

Pat’s now practically British royalty because she was made an official member of the MBE — or Member of the Order of the British Empire — by queen Elizabeth for her contribution to the fashion and beauty industry.

Pat does four fashion seasons a year, two prêt-à-porter seasons during spring and fall, and of course also the couture weeks in winter and summer. Backstage she’s cuddling and purring with the models who she sometimes even prepares meals for which she then takes to set. For a look inside her bubbly life, we selected her greatest Instagram posts.