Keep Warm Fashions For Frigid Days – 2025
Photos: Helen Oppenheim and Courtesy Vera Wang. Collage helenoppenheim.com
Wrap up with fur, best if fake, for the frigid days ahead. Get inspired with fashion blasts from the past because Baby, It’s Cold Outside.
These harsh weather Nicholas K inspirations are for urban warriors of both sexes, from their Fall/Winter 2014 New York Fashion Week Collection, which included this fake fur hood and fur headwraps. To see more of the keep warm fashions with an edge CLICK HERE
Hair: Jon Reyman for Aveda … Makeup: Lauren Anderson for Avon
Photos: Helen Oppenheim
Vera Wang’s multicolored fab fur coats, with colorful designs like works of art. are oversized, roomy, from the designer’s stunning Fall/Winter 2016 New York Fashion Week Collection. To see the hair and more from the collection, CLICK HERE
Hair: Paul Hanlon using Pai-Shau … Makeup: Lucia Pieroni,Cie de Peau Beaute … Photos; Courtesy Vera Wang
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John Sahag Birthday Today – 2025
Photo and Collage by Helen Oppenheim
Happy New Year With Bottoms Up – 2025
Wishing all my Blog Followers a Happy New Year with this 1975 photo called Bottoms Up which I art directed and fashion styled way back then. The hair, by La Coupe’s Kim Lepine for L’Oreal, was a classic one-length bob, angel curled with the bottoms up, just at the ends. The color was a gorgeous Mandarin shade, so new then it had to be flown into New York from Paris. To see the color and more versions as well as the whole collection, CLICK HERE.
Hair: Kim Lepine, La Coupe 1975 for L’Oreal … Makeup: Electa, Electa & Corrado …
Diamonds by the Yard Necklace: Elsa Peretti/Tiffany’s … Model: Paul Seigman
Fashion Styling: Helen Oppenheim …
Photo (Colorized from the original black and white, turned upside down): Klaus Lucka
Happy Holidays -2024
Illustration George Karkoulas. helenoppenheim.com
Happy Holidays to all my Followers and all the very best for 2025. This image is in honor of George Karkoulas who I honor every year with another of his gorgeous hair illustrations. You can see more of his hair illustrations in the WorldGreats album on this website – helenoppenheim.com
I will be blogging more here again in 2024, when I tripped over someone’s walker on a bus, and fell. Stay tuned …
CommentHoliday Hair Inspo Part 2 – 2024
Full Credits Archived on Website helenoppenheim.com
More hair inspo from then, all still inspirational today. These Stories appeared or will appear on my Instagram page @HelenOppenheim, just for 24 hours. They highlight some of the over 6,000 photos archived on this website (helenoppenheim.com) and they will be there to inspire you forever. All with full credits Some with how-to’s, all by the top talents of the hair, makeup, fashion worlds, photographed by top beauty talents, and me, mostly backstage at New York Fashion Weeks.
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NYFW Backstage Hair Moment – 2004
Photo: Helen Oppenheim
A New York Fashion Week backstage hair moment. Love this. Polly Mellen, the famous former fashion editor of Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Creative Director at Allure, and Edward Tricomi co-owner Warren-Tricomi Salons having a hair moment which also affected the model at the Douglas Hannant NYFW 2004 show. Are you sure, Mellen seems to be saying? No one seems sure, except the hairdresser, who ended up doing a great job, as always. This scene is a testament to confidence, patience, experience and a lot of caring and how it is not easy to do the hair for a fashion show at this level. This is one of the few photos I have digitalized, so far, from the shows I photographed on film in the early 2000’s. I have a lot of great photos only on film.
Photo: Helen Oppenheim
RIP Polly Mellen. 1924-2024. She great fashion editor has passed away, at 100 years old.
CommentHoliday Hair Inspo Then & Now – 2024
Full Credits Archived on Website helenoppenheim.com
Some hair inspo from then still inspirational today, as the Stories appeared on my Instagram page(@HelenOppenheim) for 24 hours. These are just some of the over 6,000 photos which are archived on this website (helenoppenheim.com) – all with full credits there. Stay tuned for more on my Instagram and Helen’s Blog.
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