Fashion Week came and went much sooner this season, but thanks to the help of my Agency, my PR girls and my styling team, I succeeded. This season I designed for 3 shows, Katie Gallagher, Carlos Campos and The GreenShows. I really savored each. I teamed up with a cool, under the radar, product line called Davines, and tool company T3 Micro. Davines is a sustainable product line, perfect for the organic theme that peppered the three shows I did. This Fashion Week really tipped its cap to nature. It was all about reinterpreting the organic, and Davines was a great choice for that. With T3’s Onepass and Tourmaline Technology, I couldn’t go wrong.
This was my third season designing the beauty aspect for Katie Gallagher’s collection, and it was better then ever. I feel like we have grown together, and it shows. Working with such a conceptual and intelligent designer is always an interesting process. I meet Katie and her partner at their Chinatown studio, where I sift through the collection, stare at the swatches on the wall and really pick her brain for inspiration. A few days later, I come back with my inspiration mood board, and we collaborate on what hair fits the collection to help it tell the story.
This same process takes place all over the city between me and my other designers, and between all the fashion artists collaborating to create what we know as Fashion week.
This year, Katie was inspired in the quiet spirituality that exists in the forest that can never truly be captured in the din of the city. Looking at the unique fabrics in the collection and this inspiration, I conceptualized this seasons’ hair as one that makes a statement without overpowering the whole, a feral beauty. I imagined this ethereal woman, part of an isolated Norse feminine world, and all her self-expression and power comes from her connection to the earth.
How it was done:
For Katie Gallagher’s “Silent Soil,” I created a feral up do with texture like that of roots and the intricacy like that of foliage.
The hair was prepped with Davines Texture Spray and dried to start with a thick dry foundation.
After parting a horseshoe section on top from recession to recession, all the hair was brushed back, the nape was teased and everything was pinned to that.
At the front section of the horseshoe, I flat ironed subsections with a T3 Onepass, sprayed and then folded them repeatedly to create a looping finish. The remaining back section was then folded and pinned repeatedly moving forward to meet the front.
To finish the look, we sealed everything with Davines Invisible Spray. I selectively and subtly sprayed dry shampoo so the look would photograph matte rather than shiny. I was in love with the outcome.
