He's just artsy fartsy and has no regard for beauty at all.

He's part of a realist parade - people who think that everyone needs to wear no make-up or anything to distort "their true selves". It's just that most people don't have true selves that are worth looking at, and, most of all, the true self becomes boring. With make-up you can essentially twist the way you look in an infinite number of ways. That's kinda fun. The very idea of criticising the use of make-up and retouching because it can "make women feel bad about themselves" is totally hilarious. Many women ALWAYS feel bad about themselves and compare themselves to others, no matter what they do - I'm sure they find ways to do that even if they're burka-clad!
Of course, he does have a point about boring perfectionism, that's for sure. But make-up and styling can obviously be used either to perfect oneself according to a standard or to create something out of a whim for the fun of it.
This paragraph preceeds the Kate paragraph - this seems to be his fave kind of shot:
"At the moment he is quite happy to take things at face value. He shows a picture of the American supermodel Angela Lindvall. She is lying on her back, legs wide open. White liquid is sprayed around her crotch. "I called this
Paris, Milan, New York, I'm Coming!," says Teller affably, "because fashion is such a wank.""
He's so bored isn't he - just wish that he could be more
elegant about it. They must be holding a gun to his head to wring out those lovely YSL ads out of him
