PHOTOGRAPHY ANNA BAUER
Report by Jess Hogan, Beauty and Health Associate, Vogue
The start of London Fashion Week saw hair and make-up teams at David Koma, Ashley Isham and Hakaan in a contrary mood backstage. The result was a series of beauty looks that were full of contradictions: hair stylist Cos Sakkas for Toni & Guy at David Koma, created a style of wet look hair slicked tight to the scalp with lengths left dry and softly kinked. Meanwhile, displaying masculine and feminine traits in one hairstyle at Hakaan led Luigi Murenu for John Frieda to create a small head silhouette with hair gelled tight to the scalp while gently waved lengths hinted at the softer curves of womanliness.
At Ashley Isham, both make-up and hair were riddled with paradoxes: a Forties roll whipped up by Malcolm Edwards for L’Oreal Professionnel revealed both sleek and wispy textures, while make-up artist Sharon Dowsett for M.A.C painted the outer corners of the lips a green-bronze shimmer, filling the centre in with matte pink. Could this all point to a mood of ‘first day’ indecision? It’s more likely that LFW’s hair and make-up talent are totally tuned in to the creative direction of the designers and know exactly how to deliver compelling, albeit contradictory, strikingly feminine beauty looks with a tough, modern edge.
