Berlin Fashion Week, Rubin Singer SS27 in Paris, and the VUGA TV Award 2026 mark a new chapter in the career of an international makeup artist, hairstylist, qualified beautician, and beauty educator.
In the beauty industry, technical mastery rarely exists without discipline. Behind every polished runway look are speed, precision, the ability to work as part of a team, and an understanding that makeup is only one element within a much larger visual construction. For Michéle Magdić, that combination has gradually become central to a professional career that now moves between Germany, Croatia, and international fashion projects.
In 2026, that trajectory became particularly visible. After working at Berlin Fashion Week, Michéle was invited to join the professional makeup team for the Rubin Singer SS27 presentation, held on September 29 at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris during Paris Fashion Week. That same year, she became the winner of the VUGA TV Award 2026 in the category Best Makeup Artist (Fashion) - a recognition that marked an important stage in her transition from years of commercial beauty practice into a broader international fashion context.
But the international runway was not the beginning of the story. It was the result of a much longer period of practical work, education, entrepreneurship, and professional development.
A Professional Foundation Built on Beauty and Skin Expertise
Since 2020, Magdić has been developing her career as a professional makeup artist and beauty educator, working across bridal, gala, and photoshoot makeup. Her practice has involved clients of different ages and skin types, a wide range of lighting conditions, and assignments that vary significantly in purpose — from private events to professional shoots.
Beyond her expertise in makeup artistry and hairstyling, Michéle is also a qualified beautician, an important part of her professional background that brings additional depth to her creative work.
Her professional training has provided her with extensive knowledge of different skin types, skin conditions, and individual skincare needs. This expertise allows her to assess the skin more precisely, prepare it appropriately, and select the most suitable products and techniques for each individual.
In professional makeup artistry, these skills are particularly valuable. The final result depends not only on the artist's creativity but also on understanding the condition of the skin beneath the makeup. Whether working on natural beauty looks, sophisticated bridal makeup, editorial photography, or runway productions, Michéle combines aesthetic judgment with technical knowledge of skin preparation and care.
That combination creates a particular way of seeing. Makeup stops being a collection of isolated techniques and becomes part of a complete image. For Michéle, skin preparation, color balance, the interaction between makeup and light, and the way a look translates not only in the mirror but also on camera are all equally important.
Alongside her work as a makeup artist and beautician, she spent nearly a decade building and managing her own beauty business in Germany. From 2017 to 2026, Michéle was responsible for nearly every aspect of her beauty studio's operations - from client relations and quality control to administration, customer experience, and business communication.
This part of her career matters because it helps explain the professional independence she later brought into fashion production. Backstage work requires more than artistic talent. It demands fast decision-making, strict timing, consistency, and the ability to maintain quality in an environment where dozens of specialists may be working simultaneously.
Education and the First Steps into Fashion Week
Education holds a significant place in Magdić's professional story. In 2025-2026, she completed the six-month Professional Make-up Artist and Hairstyling Programme at INCLOVER ACADEMY by Sam Hill, focused on beauty and runway makeup, hairstyling, creative concepts, portfolio development, and backstage practice.
It was during this period that one of the defining opportunities of her career emerged: Michéle was selected as the only participant from her training cohort to join the makeup team at Berlin Fashion Week.
In Berlin, she worked with runway models for shows including Kilian Kerner, Danny Reinke, Rebekka Ruétz, and Marcel Ostertag.
For a makeup artist, fashion week is a particular kind of education. Individual style must often give way to a collective creative vision. The artist needs to understand the designer's brief and the direction of the creative team, reproduce a look consistently across multiple faces, account for runway lighting, and work within a pace that rarely allows much hesitation. Berlin gave Michéle that experience. Paris took it to another level.
Paris Fashion Week: Rubin Singer SS27 at Palais de Tokyo
On September 29, 2026, Michéle was invited to join the professional makeup team for Rubin Singer SS27 at the Palais de Tokyo, one of the most recognized contemporary art and cultural venues in Paris.
Her role included preparing models as part of an international backstage team, in an environment where fashion, beauty, lighting, hairstyling, and movement all had to function as a single visual system.
One of the most interesting aspects of runway makeup is that the strongest work is not always the most visible. Sometimes the brief calls for a graphic statement; sometimes it requires almost imperceptible correction designed to withstand runway lighting and professional cameras. Professionalism lies in knowing what a particular collection needs - and what it does not.
For Magdić, participating in Rubin Singer SS27 became a natural continuation of her move from individual client work into international fashion production.
The experience also demonstrated the value of her broader professional background. Her knowledge as a qualified beautician, her attention to hygiene and skin preparation, and her ability to work within a coordinated creative team all contributed to the professional approach required in such an environment.
VUGA TV Award 2026: International Recognition
The following day in Paris, her professional trajectory received another form of recognition. At the VUGA TV Award 2026, held on September 30 at La Maison de l'Amérique Latine in Paris, Michéle was named Best Makeup Artist (Fashion).
The award recognized the area that had increasingly become central to her work: the point where makeup artistry meets fashion and beauty becomes a meaningful part of the overall runway and editorial image. For Michéle, the recognition reflected not only her growing experience in international fashion but also the professional foundation she had developed over years of working with clients, studying, teaching, and building her own business. Her approach to beauty combines creativity with technical discipline, an understanding of skin, and the ability to adapt her work to the needs of different productions.
The award became an important milestone in a career that continues to expand beyond traditional beauty services into international fashion and creative collaborations.
Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Beauty Education
Magdić does not define herself through a single role. In addition to makeup artistry, she is a certified hairstylist, qualified beautician, and beauty educator. Since 2020, she has also been involved in practical training, and she plans to further develop Michéle's Beauty Academy alongside her international assignments.
Another important dimension of her career is her experience in leadership and business development. Since 2023, Michéle has successfully built and supported a professional direct-sales team of approximately 100 women, demonstrating her ability to develop a large organization, mentor individuals, and guide a team toward professional and business goals.
Her responsibilities have included coaching, product education, sales development, personal mentoring, and supporting the professional growth of team members. This experience has strengthened her communication, organizational, and leadership skills while allowing her to help other women build confidence, develop their professional abilities, and pursue their own goals.
These achievements are an important part of Michéle's personal professional journey. They reflect her entrepreneurial mindset, independence, and ability to combine creative expertise with responsibility for people and business development.
Her ambition to expand Michéle's Beauty Academy represents a natural continuation of this experience - bringing together technical beauty education, professional mentorship, and the practical knowledge she has accumulated throughout her career.
Where Creativity Meets Professional Discipline
Another, less obvious but important foundation of Michéle's professional background is her medical training as a Dental Assistant (ZFA). That experience shaped her particular attention to hygiene standards, infection prevention, and safe client care - considerations that become especially significant in the intense environment of fashion backstage.
Combined with her qualifications as a beautician, this background supports a professional approach in which creativity, technical knowledge, skin preparation, hygiene, and individual client care are closely connected. For Magdić, beauty is not simply about creating a visually appealing result. It is also about understanding the individual, respecting the needs of the skin, and ensuring that every stage of the process is approached with care and precision.
This combination of artistic and technical knowledge distinguishes her professional philosophy, whether she is working with a private client, preparing a model for a runway show, or teaching the next generation of beauty professionals.
The Next Chapter
Today, Michéle's professional practice spans fashion and runway makeup, editorial beauty, model shoots, bridal and event makeup, hairstyling, lash and brow styling, skin preparation, beauty education, and backstage work.
Her next areas of interest include film and television, where her technical skills, understanding of lighting, and experience with different visual concepts can provide a foundation for further professional development.
And perhaps the most compelling part of her story is not the speed of her professional rise, but its sequence. Client work gave her precision. Running her own business gave her responsibility. Her qualifications as a beautician strengthened her understanding of skin and its individual needs. Building and mentoring a large professional team developed her leadership skills. Education gave her a new creative language. Berlin Fashion Week gave her an understanding of runway production. Rubin Singer SS27 at the Palais de Tokyo gave her an international backstage platform. And the VUGA TV Award 2026 for Best Makeup Artist (Fashion) became recognition of the direction that has gradually moved to the forefront of her career.
In fashion beauty, there is rarely a single moment when a career suddenly becomes international. More often, it is built exactly this way - through countless clients, hundreds of hours of practice, continuous education, early backstage call times, and the ability to begin again each time in front of a new face. For Michéle Magdić, Paris seems less like the culmination of that process than the point at which its scale became visibly larger.
