Last season, the celeb designer took her show to Paris, where we watched models strut down long library tables. For the collection before that, models like Bella and Gigi Hadid came strolling down the catwalk with painted, white hair.
This season, before pink fog descended onto the audience of the Park Avenue Armory, before the motocross bikes jumped and flipped over gigantic mounds of millennial-pink sand, four hours before (to be exact), RiRi’s mane guy and the show’s lead hairstylist, Yusef Williams, was just starting his first look…on Kaia Gerber, no less.
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No pressure.
Just minutes before that, Rihanna arrived to make sure her motocross-chic–inspired vision was coming to life.
No pressure?
“Teamwork makes the dream work,” Yusef calmly told E! News backstage before the runway show. “She’s always involved. Even prior to today, we’ve been talking about hair and makeup for months…we work together. It’s a team effort.”
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But how do you create runway-worthy hair for a show the designer even admitted was a good challenge? It’s all in the details.
And so Yusef did, weaving bungee cords throughout edgy-yet-wearable ponytails. As we watched the pro section Kaia’s hair into two parts, one on top of each other, then twisting strands, hair-spraying and securing the ponies together with neon cords, we could see the designer’s influence and inspiration coming alive in the stylist’s work and, at the same time, his precise execution contributing to hers.
At the demo’s end, Yusef took Kaia’s tendrils and combed them into her hair using hairspray to finish a sleek, badass look that would later awe hundreds of people (along with everything else).
