#NYFW Backstage at Alexander Wang with ghd

September, 14th

Alexander Wang brought his Spring 2018 New York Fashion Week runway show to Bushwick, Brooklyn for WangFest starring Kaia Gerber, Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner. Wang’s undeniably cool vibe was ever-present with Deconstructed shirts, minidresses, 90s-inspired slip dresses with lace detailing and plant pants mixing denim and leather.

Keeping with the cool kid aesthetic internationally renowned stylist Guido Palau creates the show Alexander Wang Spring / Summer 2018 hair looks in partnership with ghd. Reflecting the fashion industry’s current fascination with the individual and the unique, Guido worked with models’ natural texture to create ‘lived-in’ hair with movement a-plenty.

But how do you create an undone look without appearing messy? According to Palau, “When considering natural hair, people tend to assume that the end result will be messy. That’s absolutely not the case.” Guido first washed each girl’s hair, before applying a styling cream and using the ghd Air hairdryer with a diffuser to mimic the process of allowing hair to air-dry. After crafting a messy middle part with his fingertips, hair lengths were gently bent around the ghd Classic Curl Iron to lend natural movement, texture and idiosyncratic waves.

In short, it’s the tools you use that make the most difference between messy ‘lived-in cool’. “A great hairdryer, like the ghd Air Hairdryer, minimises drying time and therefore limits damage to the hair, while helping to achieve beautiful, natural movement. Great styling tools are essential for creating simple, modern textures,” said Palau.

Get the Look:

1. Wash hair and apply a heat protect spray like like ghd ‘Style’ Heat Protect Spray.

2. Use the ghd Air Hairdryer with a diffuser to gently blow-dry hair on a low heat setting, while maintaining and enhancing your natural texture.

3. Add a natural center parting using fingers.

4. Afterwards, create a soft natural wave by bending sections of hair around the ghd Classic Curl Iron to add additional movement. Maintain an imperfect finish by bending hair in different directions.

Ta-da! You’re part of Wang’s cool girl gang!

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#NYFW Suzanne Rae S/S 2018 Presentation

September, 13th

For the Suzanne Rae spring summer 2018 collection, organza and charmeuse are used to create delicate, sensual pieces that play with transparency and layers, while luxurious Italian jerseys and knits are used for sporty mobility. Red, the color of passion and desire, dominates the collection while powder blue, the color of celestial skies and the Virgin Mary, counters the heat. Eastern influences and luscious red velvets are also included to offer, at once, both social notions of the exotic as well as attributes of the church.

It is the dichotomy of the profane and the sacred that brings to light the complexity of desire; we desire things because we want to own and be that which the desired object represents. It is within this realm of the sacred and the profane, where desire is not only insatiable but where the desire for the sacred and the desire for the profane are equally good and evil.

Suzanne Rae Pelaez describes her design transformation saying, “While I have been advocating practicality in fashion for the past several seasons, I have had a recent desire to not entirely abandon it but to indulge in creating beautiful little things, purely for the sake of the beautiful thing. That is, I want to make and have little pieces that are collectible, much like pottery or art; little pieces that I simply want to own and gaze at, even if not to wear. They are in turn objects of art, or rather objects of desire.”

Speaking of desire… I’m currently desiring those shiny red slip ons, mod square-toe heels, and of course a throwback fanny pack!

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#NYFW Backstage at Katie Gallagher with Robert Michael Tochterman for R+Co

September, 12th

The Katie Gallagher Spring/Summer 2018 show was inspired by the spontaneity of a rain storm. Lead hair stylist Robert Michael Tochterman for R+Co worked with the designer to create a “disheveled” yet feminine hairstyle that embodied a NYC girl getting caught in the rain. Merging two decades together, Robert designed two classic 90s knots, but exaggerated the look a la 60s style with hair framing the face.

Want to achieve the effortlessly undone rain-swept tresses? Here’s Robert Michael Tochterman’s process:

  1. Start by adding texture to the hair with R+Co Soft Wave Spray from roots to end. Depending on how fine the hair is, use R+Co Chiffon Styling Mousse for added texture.
  2. Create a center, zig zag part from the hairline to the base of the neck, leaving a waterfall of wispy pieces out along the hairline.
  3. Tease the hair at the crown and use fingers to brush the hair up into two pigtails.
  4. Twist the hair of each pigtail, wrap around the hand and pull into two knots, leaving the ends peeking out of the middle of the buns for a playful and uneven look. Secure the double buns with bobby pins.
  5. Pinch the hair along the part in the back of the head to cover the part line.
  6. Pinch the inner facing part of the buns together slightly and pin down.
  7. Use fingers to pull out textured pieces throughout the hair.
  8. Pull the wispy pieces over the face and rub R+Co Badlands Dry Shampoo Paste in using fingertips for separation and texture.
  9. Finish the look with R+Co Outer Space Flexible Hairspray.

Just don’t get caught out in the rain for real after & ruin all your hard work!

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