Summer hair has gone colour crazy.
Hair shows too often remind me of wearable art events, at times amazing, usually inventive, but often anything but wearable. Those in the industry would doubtless disagree, but though fashion can usually be translated fairly easily from runway to reality, hair isn't always as easily explainable. As with clothes, when creativity comes together in a way that is cutting edge but also be consumer-friendly, you're on to a winner.
Servilles summer hair show pulled these two at-times diametrically opposed notions together in a way that had me hoping I'd see some braver hair choices on the street this summer. Having grown up in the post-punk try-every-colour days, I get a bit nostalgic about blue tips. I don't seriously want to see a return to DIY dye jobs, but banishing "beachy" in favour of something a little more challenging seems long overdue. We saw that this month when the Servilles team interpreted L'Oreal Professionel's global seasonal Summer Illusion collection. Senior stylists and academy graduates collaborated on a range of sharply styled looks that Paul Serville said "were still very much about the wind". He meant they had a movability and a subtlety, where cut and colour combined to reveal itself. Depending on the angle - or the wind - the style would "open up a new bit of colour".
The Summer Illusion hair looks take their inspiration from the fantasy fashion mash-up of feathers, giant bows and ruffles and boxy exaggerated shapes. At Servilles this saw senior stylist Emma Scott use teal blue to edge an asymmetric feathered bob and dark tips on a riot of red curls.
Such colour might be temporary for a fun look - backstage, heavily pigmented makeup powders were worked into hair - or done in salon with strong shades that will last. I liked a chocolate look with sapphire ends that was truly smart enough for the office.
