THE tension between volume and restrictive strapping at Craig Green is fascinating and beautiful. Embroidery, quilting, saturated and bleached colour, rope-stitched coats, and instantly desirable helmets, bonnets and half-hoods were shown with a hair look that was flattened and the antithesis of primped.
A hair look at Craig Green
John Vial, Hair Lead: “This was really an anti-volume statement, but don’t reach for flat irons. We wanted it to be head hugging but with texture. We used a hair donut rolled out and cut so it sits round and clings to the head – inspired by how a lot of African communities use tights and wraps to flatten hair.”
A hair look at Craig Green
Backstage, the models in their mesh wraps resembled a team of extraordinarily good-looking bank robbers. If you were to ever consider pulling a bank job, perhaps get a hair and make-up team to carry it out… so many boys to style and dress, in so little time, and yet the atmosphere remains calm, intense and highly focussed.
A hair look at Craig Green
The result, once the clothes were on and the head-wraps off? Hair hugged the contours of the skull, flaring around the neck when worn longer. A look all-too-familiar and unwelcome to any schoolgirl required to wear a felt hat in the winter term, but at Craig Green it gave an air of gawky, boyish disinterest, keeping the focus on a collection of beautiful, complex pieces.
by Rachel McCormack
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