A Seventies Coif Takes the Stage at Cavalli

“A cloud of hair” — that’s how hairstylist Guido Palau described the unorthodox style backstage at Roberto Cavalli.

To get the poufed updo, Palau added Redken Fabricate to the hair for texture and back-brushed it, then pinned the hair in three sections to the top of the head.

“It’s a billowing effect, that’s a little bit Bridget Bardot, with bits falling out,” said Palau. But he contended the look was not conceptual — rather a style taken straight from the Seventies. “What we see in the magazines and at fashion shows now is so normalized that people think a look like this is conceptual, but it’s not. It’s great to do something like this because it’s something special, and it makes fashion exciting,” he said.

Bridget Bardot also inspired the makeup look for the Roberto Cavalli show, but lead makeup artist Lisa Butler didn’t go for heavy black eyeliner. Instead, she blended black eye pencil with a creamy brown contour cream on the eyelids and added mascara.

“You can’t be too obvious with references — I wanted a bedroom sleepy look,” Butler said. Skin was prepped with foundation, and cheeks flushed with a blend of brown, purple, pink and orange color creams. The lip was covered with foundation and then the whole face was brushed over and set with MAC mineral powders.

“Mineral powder makes you look like you [don’t] have any makeup on,” Butler said.