Traveling in well-coiffed style is a challenge at this steamy time of year—a fact the fashion world knows well, having battled humidity and intermittent drizzle en route to the Alexander Wang party last night. That’s why our eyes perked up backstage at Victoria Beckham this morning when hairstylist Guido Palau coiled models’ hair into tightly pinned temporary buns, unspooling them moments before the show to “get some natural movement back in,” he explained. This buttoned-up chignon might be the perfect antidote to a bad-hair-day-making commute: It guards against mushrooming frizz while delivering easygoing waves upon arrival.
If Beckham is perennially known for her head-to-toe polish (down to the crisp loafer mules at the Spring show), today’s iteration was a “very simple, very modern” take on a hair-down look, Palau said. After creating an off-center part with his fingers and blow-drying the lengths with Redken’s heat-protecting Satinwear lotion, he twisted the hair into knots and later raked a touch of flyaway-taming Diamond Oil Glow Dry through the resulting loose waves. The effect: uptown-cool hair that had a youthful quality “without looking unruly,” Palau explained. With a stretch of balmy weather still looming ahead before autumn settles in, now is as good a time as any to stock up on a fresh supply of pins.
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