Paris Fashion Week beauty: Frizz, faux sideburns + YOLO-hair dominated the Fall 2015 runways

by Sarah Daniel March 11, 2015

After all the freshly washed and air-dried hair we saw on the Spring 2015 runways, we were ready to write off blowouts, retire our hair dryer and jettison every bottle under our sink, save for cleansing conditioner and salt spray. But many of the key shows at Paris Fashion Week made short work of carefree waves, and instead products like gel and hairspray were plentiful, hair dye was in the house and flat irons and crimpers were fired up and ready to go.

Free-flowing frizz at Alexander McQueen
Models looked like they had their head in the clouds thanks to a technique called “rickraking,” which involves knitting U-shaped bobby pins into the hair and then pressing down on them with a flat iron. When the pins are removed, hair is brushed out, yielding crazy frizz.

Baby hairs at Givenchy
The face jewellery was pretty distracting, but hairstylist Luigi Murenu managed to match it, creating calligraphy-like swirls with gelled strands along the hairline, and using a spooley wand to fine-tune his work.

Faux sideburns at Balenciaga
Chic chignons manned up when Guido Palau made DIY sideburns, applying pieces of hair on the models’ faces.

Pink hair at Louis Vuitton
Rewind to Milan, where as a nod to Courtney Love in her Hole days, Paul Hanlon turned two models watermelon blonde at Gucci using temporary hair dye. And at Louis Vuitton, it was all about Fernanda Hin Lin Ly, who like Charlotte Free before her, sported her signature rose strands.

Crimped strands at Maison Margiela
The ’80s hair tool has been making cameos here and there—Eugene Soulieman and Luigi Murenu have employed one the last few seasons—so we weren’t freaking out this time around. At Margiela, different sections of the hair were crimped, and in some cases secured with a flower-embellished choker.