Beauty / Society

Meet the metahuman maker designing the next generation of models

By Clare McInerney

Photo: Katarina Håkansson

Swedish makeup artist Katarina Håkansson came up collaborating with top photographers and luxury houses during the explosive era that was New York in the 1990s. Now, at 61, she enters the metaverse, applying her otherworldly techniques to digital avatars in a landscape in which she is, once again, a pioneer