NEWS| Hair Trend Review AW14
Over
the past three days at Fashion Scout, backstage access has granted us exclusive
insight to the season’s up and coming hair trends. Hair is pivotal in the
execution of a collection, not only in setting the bar for up and coming
trends, but for communicating the aesthetic behind the designer’s work. Head
hair stylist of Toni & Guy Richard Mannah has been the matrix behind the scenes at shows including Mimi Fasi, NapSugar and Yifang Wan. With each showcase
offering fresh and exciting looks, a plethora of textures, colours and styles
have been produced by Toni & Guy and seen on Fashion Scout’s catwalks.
Diversity
has been celebrated by the stylists, “I’ve seen everything here over the past few days. There’s been flat wigs, pink hair and beehives, a whole variety of
different eras and sources”. With trends
moving faster than the microsecond of a Google search and being redefined in
140 characters of a Tweet, trends are constantly shifting and reincarnating old into new. “Nothing is set in stone,”
explains Mannah. “It’s dependent on the designer’s collection. Everyone wants
to be an individual and to do something different, so there hasn’t been a
distinctive trend for AW”.
Styles
have been imbued with the distinctive looks of the 60s and 70s. “Today at Mimi
Fasi we are fusing the 60s with Morrocco to compliment her colourful designs,” Mannah explains. “Think Audrey Heburn and her signature French roll”. The 60s
and 70s were also influential factors behind the Napsugar and Yifang Wan collections. Backstage at Wan, Mannah created bouffant looks evocative of the
70s mohawk which worked into a ‘horse’s mane’ pony tail to put a contemporary
spin on the look. Rather than regurgitate past trends, Mannah ambitions to
modernise the hair styles, “I want it to look slept-in, slightly destroyed and
undone”.
By Lydia Smyth (@LydiaRoseSmyth)
Images by Sim D (@SimD_8), taken on the fashion forward LumixGM1, (@PanasonicUK).