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Miranda Joyce

Miranda Joyce is a self-taught British make-up artist who has been working in the fashion industry since the mid-eighties. When The Belle Stars split in 1986 Miranda continued in the music industry by doing make-up for bands, a stint that included a job for group, Tears for Fears' Shout cover. Her move from music to fashion happened more by chance than design. She first met Nick Knight while he was taking band pictures for i-D at the infamous Taboo club, a venue known for its young and outlandish fashion habitues. Through the fashion circles she was moving in, Miranda ended up doing make-up for some of the early Kate Moss photos with Corinne Day, as well as work for Juergen Teller and David Sims at the zenith of the grunge movement. Throughout the nineties Miranda did a considerable volume of work for British Elle with models, Naomi Campbell and Jenny Howarth. To date, her work has featured in magazines like Italian Vogue, Numero, POP, i-D, Dazed and Confused, and Self Service. Having collaborated with many of the top photographers in the fashion industry, Miranda also has a multitude of high profile advertising jobs for global prestige brands to her name; among them Miu Miu, Yves Saint Laurent, Chloe and Anna Molinari.

(Info from SHOWstudio.com)

Since then, Miranda has also worked with/at Prada. I know nothing about Fashion but I'm sure that's cool. I do watch Ugly Betty after all!

Other info:

Miranda has been credited on the Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry album 'Heart Still Beating' (1990).

In the late 80s I believe Miranda also acted in a BBC1 TV programme - I can't remember the name except that I think it had Bluebell in the title.  I'm afraid I never saw it but I'm sure I read somewhere that she was in it.  I think I have an article about it somewhere which I will try and dig out.

News just in from another Belle Star fan! (28/06/2008): The TV Show Miranda was in was The Bluebell Girls, starring Carolyn Pickles, about a troupe of English girls becoming dancers in Paris in the 1920s or 30s (based on a real story). It was scheduled for repeat in 1997 on UK Gold, a feature was printed in a listings mag, but it never appeared, and, as far as I can tell, never has! I did see it when it was first on (about '87 I would guess) and remember Miranda only having a blink-and-you'll-miss-it non-speaking role, in crowd scenes mainly. For some reason, she was credited as Miranda Coe (Could this have been a different actress??) on screen. I don't know if she's acted since, under any name, but I believe she may have got the job because of her then-just-starting make-up connections, and they were looking for very tall slim girls (dancers, of course!) I know it isn't much, but it's something!

Here’s an interview with Miranda at London's Fashion week in September 2007.