The Wildest Hair and Makeup Looks from Milan Fashion Week

Hair artist Jawara is known for creating dreamlike editorial designs, and his showing at Emilio Pucci was no exception. Inspired by the late ’90s hairstyles from rapper Lil’ Kim—who used to stencil fashion labels like Versace and CHANEL onto her signature wigs—the stylist designed custom stencils and sprayed an array of electric blue and hot pink designs onto the models’ stick-straight platinum or lavender hair. The effect was equal parts edgy and whimsical, especially paired with the collection’s eye-popping color palette.

When we saw the trails of glitter melting down the models’ faces at the Marni show—as if they had walked through a particularly exuberant rainshower—our first instict was to book it to the nearest craft store. Multidisciplinary artist Julien d’Ys created the look, painting on a custom creation for each model to better capture the Alice in Wonderland theme of the show. For a material that can often lean girlish, the glitter in this case felt almost aggressive, a testament to the force of the woman wearing it along with a stunning leather patchwork dress or trench coat.

A fabulous outfit and equally glam up-do is a signature Italian aesthetic, and Fendi delivered. Sam McKnight revealed that in order to not let the collection’s padded headbands feel too precious, he created complex-looking buns inspired by none other than braided pastries and pretzels. They’re also slightly Star Wars princess-inspired, so that they feel elegant and sculptural but never overly ladylike (especially since the headbands were worn upside down). Paired with a collection that had several of our editors saying so long to our savings, it was a true feast for the eyes like only Milan Fashion Week can deliver.



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