Marc Jacobs’s Dark Swans: Gravity-Defying Topknots and the Return of Lipstick! — vogue.com

The willowy models gliding through mists of hairspray and clouds of powder backstage at Marc Jacobs tonight seemed to draw even longer lines thanks to the sleek, gravity-defying topknots hairstylist Guido Palau painstakingly combed and gathered at their foreheads. “Drawing the hair up this way accentuates the neck, jaw, and bone [structure],” said Palau of the swanlike effect made all the more regal by each member of the cast’s remarkable features—from Jamie Bochert’s angular cheekbones, to runway rookie Cierra Skye’s heart-shaped face, and comeback surprise Erin O’Connor’s Aquiline profile. “This woman is not going to wear uptown clothes with downtown hair—she’s considered.” After blowdrying the hair from the base of the skull forward, Palau twisted and pinned their buns into place, sealing them with Redken Control Addict Hairspray and leaving their spiky ends exposed. “Edith Sitwell wore her hair like that,” explained Palau, of Jacobs’s society muses, who also included Diana Vreeland and Babe Paley.

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