Tom Ford Wants You to Rock an 80s Headband Like Only a Rodeo Drive Goddess Could
There’s very little that can effectively tone down a black catsuit with a scooped out back—and attached cape. Ditto a plunging blazer cut in red cheetah print and paired with gigantic glimmering hoops. But that was the very intention with the thick, black leather headbands Tom Ford designed for his Eighties-flashback Fall show tonight.
“It’s supposed to look like the girls put it up themselves,” hairstylist Orlando Pita explained of the messy, texturized updos held together by bobbi-pins and Ford’s bespoke accessory. Clasped at the nape of the next with Velcro, each band was deliberately placed straight across the forehead and pulled slightly over models’ ears, tapping into the fabulous flash of that decade's Rodeo Drive excess (no coincidence that Los Angeles is currently where Ford calls home.)
“Headbands are great because they automatically dress you up,” Pita admitted, “but these are meant to look tough.” And they did, on girls like Kaia Gerber and Binx Walton, whose lids were slicked with a smoky black eyeshadow, courtesy of the makeup artist Pat McGrath, and whose necks were treated to DIY “mullet tails”—longer lengths that Pita pulled out of place to hammer home the “unbothered” look.
Right before the show began, Ford himself appeared backstage in his signature black suit and yellow-tinted aviator glasses to put the finishing touches on Lexi Boling’s honey-blonde strands. Explained Pita, “he always says he’s a frustrated hairdresser at heart.” If we're lucky, Ford will work out that inner turmoil with a permanent line of full throttle hair accessories coming soon.
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