Peter Philips’s Makeup Inspirations Are TikTok and Mickey Mouse

Photo: Lee Jong Il

As a young boy growing up in Antwerp, Peter Philips dreamt of attending the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts to study fashion. Although his parents were supportive of his creativity, his mother urged him to go into something more practical, like graphic design. He got his graphic-design degree — this was before everything went digital — and promptly decided to attend the academy after all, where his classmates included designers Raf Simons and Veronique Branquinho, photographer Willy Vanderperre...