Burberry LFW
September 30, 2009
While we were pre-occupied with New Zealand Fashion Week, the rest of the world was focusing on New York, London, Paris and now Milan.
One of my all-time favourite looks is anything that looks easy (knowing that it isn’t is beside the point). I hate helmut hair styles, you know, the ones that are forced into place with loads of hairspray and look like plastic hair. Hair that cannot move - that’s trapped and will take a lot of brushing to be released from the stiff style. Intricate up-dos just remind me of either a wedding or a ball. So here we have the models at Burberry strutting down the catwalk in London looking like they’ve just run from the Tube to catch the show.
The centre part makes it easy - a curtain of hang hangs evenly over each side of the face, but it does mean that you need to be regular with your foil updates as there’s nothing worse than a centre part with a really bad, obvious, regrowth line. That just looks tacky.
There’s some texture in this look too. From what I’ve learnt lately by lurking about backstage, is that you can achieve this by teasing and then squishing the hair into place with a straightener. Texture was a common, recurring theme and it basically means that for those of us with frizzy hair it’s time to celebrate it. Don’t flatten your hair into smooth submission. Let a little bit frizz out. It’s cool (apparently, I’m yet to come to terms with this as my hair… gets so big….not sure if I want to unleash it on the world but anyway). Hairspray helps. So does sea salt.
Sea salt?