Love Quote by Kevyn Aucoin

“I also have this incredible love for women” reads like a casual aside, but it’s doing strategic cultural work. Aucoin isn’t merely professing admiration; he’s staking a claim about allegiance. In an industry that often treats women as surfaces to be perfected, “love” becomes a rebuttal to the cold mechanics of beauty culture. The word “incredible” signals excess on purpose: not polite respectability, not professional detachment, but a devotion that spills past the job description.

The subtext sits at the intersection of queerness, intimacy, and power. As a male makeup artist who rose to mythic status in the ’90s celebrity machine, Aucoin had to navigate a paradox: he was invited into women’s most scrutinized spaces (faces, mirrors, insecurities) while operating inside an industry built on judgment. Declaring love functions as a moral credential. It suggests his gaze isn’t predatory or transactional; it’s collaborative, even protective. That “also” matters, too. It implies he’s known for other loves - artistry, transformation, performance - but wants this one on record as core, not incidental.

Context sharpens the line. Aucoin helped define an era when supermodels and stars were both worshipped and policed, and when queer creative labor powered mainstream glamour while often staying in the margins. His ethos, visible in the way he celebrated individuality rather than erasing it, reframes makeup as translation instead of correction. The sentence is simple, almost disarming, because it’s meant to sound human first and ideological second - a softer weapon against an industry that can forget women are people before they’re “looks.”