BIG, BEAUTIFUL BRAIDS FOR SS/10

If you have waist-length hair like I do, you'll find this trend extremely convenient. The first time I saw the trend fully-fledged for spring, was at the Alexander Wang Spring/Summer 2010 runway show at New York Fashion Week last September. To match his androgynous sportswear-inspired collection rocked so well by models like Magdalena Frackowiak and Abbey Lee Kershaw, the models were sporting (pardon the pun) enormous side braids, loosely tied. I absolutely loved it. Classy, chic, and just enough attitude to have me wearing it all summer long. Braids are my forté. 

Backstage at Alexander Wang via I Know What You Wore

To give you some visual inspiration, I decided to pull up Kasia Struss in the January issue of Vogue US. The article was to highlight jackets, hence the editorial "Jackets of All Trades", but I thought it was a nice touch to show a lovely darling sophisticatedly showing-off the beauty trend. The hair stylings in the editorial were done by Guido Palau, and it was photographed by David Sims.

Publication: Vogue U.S.
Issue: January 2010, Editorial: "Jackets of All Trades"
Photographer: David Sims
Model: Kasia Struss

MEISELPIC: VOGUE ITALIA

This is one of my favorite shoots, so I thought I would post this from my collections. Shot by Steven Meisel, a photography genius, the shoot was inspired by the social media site Twitter, and it's picture hosting, Twitpic. Revamped and renamed to "meiselpic", each of the models has a clever "tweet" to share, with Meisel sharing his little message as well. Check them all out.

Publication: Vogue Italia

Issue: December 2009

Photographer: Steven Meisel

Models: Agyness Deyn, Anna Selezneva, Freja Beha Erichsen, Hanne Gaby, Kasia Struss, Karlie Kloss, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Sasha Pivovarova, Natalia Vodianova, Natasha Poly. 

For the record I only enclosed my favorites. There are more. Let me know if you want to see the rest. The ones I left out were Linda Evangelista, Viktoriya Sasonkina,  Kristen McMenamy, Sessilee Lopez, Gisele Bundchen, Lara Stone, Karen Elson, Naomi Campbell, Jamie Bochert, Christy Turlington.