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The Helen Oppenheim Hair Fashion Photo Archives are a unique and inspirational resource for the media, movies, tv, theatre, anyone wanting a new hairstyle. There are more than 5,000 photos from the ’60s to the present, many innovative firsts, many not dated, still relevant and wearable today, even from way back then. Scroll for More, More, More.
Ideas. This is what you will find on www.helenoppenheim.com, the result of my art directing, conceiving, taking and collecting photos over decades. Yes, I’m a hoarder. I specialize in hair and fashion trends, and have photographed myself backstage at NY Fashion Weeks for years. Most fun I’ve had. There are “treasures” hidden here and there and I hope you will find the time to discover them.
I use my blog mostly to highlight interesting photos on the website, as well as whatever tickles my fancy. I am not intending to be politically correct all the time, so I may ruffle a few feathers. Be warned. But I hope to keep you entertained. And informed.
I was born in London, lived in Montreal for years, and for the last few decades in New York City. All have influenced me. I have toiled away as a journalist and PR for some of the world’s best, and have been US Correspondent for Peluquerias Magazine of Barcelona since 1982. I’m hard to please! Too honest, perhaps. So I have lots of friends, also lots of enemies and expect to make a few more of both.
Now, I’m working on my legacy, for posterity. This is a Work in Progress. I expect it will take forever. So, stay tuned…
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Earrings @ Badgley Mischka NYFW – 2024
Photos: Helen Oppenheim. Collage helenoppenheimn.com
Badgley Mischka always have great earrings at their New York Fashion Week Shows and for their 35th Anniversary Presentation for Spring 2024, held at Delmonico’s, Designers Mark Badgley and James Miscka made their earrings more exciting and must-have than ever.. Take a look at just some of the beautiful glamourous earrings.
Peter Gray’s hair was very simple, very small or very large, nothing inbetween. (See the album archives on the website, link below.) Mary Irwins’s makeup for Viseart included Coyish on the eyes, blush from Fleurette Entendu on the cheeks, a new custom color on lips.
To see the Badgley Mischka album archived on the website with fashions, hair and more earrings , CLICK HERE
Hair: Peter Gray for Back of Bottle … Makeup: Mary Irwin for Viseart, Paris … Photos: Helen Oppenheim
CommentLove Shack Fancy Hair NYFW SS24 – 2023
Photos: Helen Oppenheim. Collage helenoppenheim.com
The hair at the Love Shack Fancy New York Fashion Week Show was by Jon Reyman for Aveda. It was ethereal, romantic, superfeminine, and whimsical, as were the fashions.
There were three hair looks – natural, ponytail, or braided. As with the fabulous fashions, there were plenty of beautiful bows, of all sizes, from big squashy ones with embroidery, (see photos to the right) to small bows scattered here and there, some entwined in the braided hair, others bow tied at the ends, ribbons dangling, some just capturing long hair at the back. Hats off to Jon Reyman and his team.
The faces (see bottom left) by Amy Conway for Bobbi Brown were “pretty, ethereal, with fresh skin, a child-like blush on the apple of the cheek, a soft glow on the eye.”
To see the Love Shack Fancy album with 25 photos archived on the website, CLICK HERE and to see some videos on my Instagram Page @HelenOppenheim, CLICK HERE (scroll down if necessary) and check the Stories.
Lead Hair: Jon Reyman, Aveda … Lead Makeup: Amy Conway, Bobbi Brown … Photos: Helen Oppenheim
CommentLove Shack Fancy Shoes NYFW – 2023
Photos: Helen Oppenheim. Collage helenoppenheim.com
The Love Shack Fancy New York Fashion Week Show for Spring/Summer 2024, was totally charming. The fashions were ethereal, romantic, super feminine, whimsical. So were the shoes. Which could inspire those willing to be inspired. The fashions had a Victorian/ Edwardian feel, some were ’30s influenced, yet all were modern. To appeal to women of all ages. Hats off to designer Rebecca Hessel Cohen, who created a super show at the Refectory Chelsea Square. To see more photos from this show archived in an album on the website, CLICK HERE and to see some videos, including the total Finale, go to @HelenOppenheim on Instagram.
Lead Hair: Jon Reyman, Aveda … Lead Makeup: Amy Conway, Bobbi Brown … Photos: Helen Oppenheim
CommentManet Degas Opens 9/24 @ The Met – 2023
Images Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Collage by helenoppenheim.com
The Manet Degas must-see exhibition opens to the Public on September 24th. 2023 and will remain on view until January 7, 2024 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s sure to be a huge success.
Impressionists Edouard Manet (1832 -1883) and Edgar Degas (1834-1917) were two giants of art history, they were rivals in paint and on paper over the course of two decades and produced some of the most provocative and famous images in Western art. They admired and criticized each other. Over half of the more than 160 works in the exhibition are drawn from collections of the Met and the Musée d’Orsay, the rest on loan from nearly fifty other institutions and collectors.
1st Row L-R. The Dead Toreador, probably 1864 by Manet … Olympia, 1863-65, by Manet
2nd Row : The Dancing Class, 1870, by Degas … Manet and Degas Install Image … …. Beach Scene, 1869-70 by Degas
Images Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
CommentElysian Magazine Fall Issue Launch – 2023
Photos: Helen Oppenheim. Collage helenoppenheim.com
The Fall issue of Elysian Magazine, a handsome, beautifully produced women’s lifestyle magazine published quarterly about Women Inspiring Women, fashion, art, culture and more, was launched last night at the National Arts Club. Publisher, Karen Floyd (business woman, former Prosecutor and Judge, CEO of Paladium Group) hosted the elegant event where everyone was asked to wear black and gold, not that everyone took note. (I did!! Right down to my gold eyeshadow, jewelry, watch – and I’m a silver woman!) Never mind, everyone looked elegant! The cover featured Dr. Christina Rahm, who provides solutions to the world that help people, animals and the environment. Here are just a few photos. Larger and more to come on social media.
Top Row, L-R : Dr. Christina Rahm, cover women … Karen Floyd, Publisher Elysian Magazine with Brigitte Segura (fashiondailymag) … Me (Photo Fred J. DeVito) … Fred J. DeVito in a gold sequin jacket.
2nd Row : Luciana Pampalone in gold crown … Carolyn Schoepf
Bottom Row : Bright Young Things … Influencer David Perry with blue beard and brows … Dawson, who gilded his jacket himself … an elegant jumpsuit.
Hiroko Koshino @ RakutenFWT SS2024
Photos: Zigen courtesy Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo. Collage:helenoppenheim.com
The designs Hiroko Koshino showed at Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo for Spring/Summer 2024 were surreal, shapes with artistic curves, straight lines waved softly, gracefully.
The hair designs by Shiseido were surreal, shapes with artistic curves, layered bobs with hair color contrast and unbalanced cuts, avant-garde, interesting. To see more of the collection and the hair, this video is worth seeing – CLICK HERE
Hair: Tadashi Harada, Shiseido … Makeup: Setsuko Suzuki … Photos: Zigen, courtesy Rakkuten Fashion Week Tokyo
CommentFun Hair @ Rakuten FWT 2024 S/S – 2023
“Strange and Cute” is the main concept of the Pays des fées brand who showed their Spring/Summer 2024 Collection on the Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo runway, Day 2.
Chiaki Hino created some fun hair, dressed and decorated up to there, for Lim Asafuji, the Designer and Creative Director for the Pays des fées line of Women’s and Men’s Ready To Wear, Shoes, Accessories and more. She likes to “express deep themes each season” – yes, we like that.
Hair and Makeup: Chiaki Hino … Styling : Iyo Kondo … Textile Artwork: Kenichi Nagai … Photos: Pays des fees with thanks to Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo
CommentKiss Curls Movements on Forehead – 2023
Photos: Harunobumurata with thanks Rakuten Fashion Week. Collage: helenoppenheim.com
Better than a bare forehead and a boring safe no-no hairstyle, these kiss curls and hair movements by Takayuki Shibata make a pretty fashion statement as seen at the Harunobumurata Fall Winter 2023 runway show during Rakuten Fashion Week in Tokyo. Stay tuned for Spring Summer 2024 from Rakuten.
Hair: Takayuki Shibata … Makeup: Shino Aruzumi … Photos: Harunobumurata with thanks Rakuten Fashion Week
CommentComing Soon. NYFW – Spring 2024
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Stay tuned. My New York Fashion Week photos will be archived soon on this website. Shows will be from September 8 to September 13, 2023. To see the photos, when up, CLICK HERE for hair, beauty, fashion inspo. The Countdown is on. To see the NYFW calendar, how ot get tickets, and more info: CLICK HERE.
CommentDover Street Market Fashions Wow – 2023
Photos: Helen Oppenheim. Collage by helenoppenheim.com
I love The Dover Street Market. It is a department store and exhibition space like no other, as inspiring as any museum, created by Rei Kawakubo of the Japanese label Commes des Garcons and her husband Adrian Joffe. The store sells high fashion and streetwear brands, most unorthodox, very different to fashion stores fashions. Kawakubo has described Dover Street Market as ‘beautiful chaos.”
Top L-R : On Friday, August 5th, we were greeted by a tray with champagne and wine at the door, and on some floors … Gucci dress … Gucci shoes … Melitta Baumeister shoes.
Center : Bizzotto Gioielli W Jewelry had just arrived. The jewelry is all exquisite and beautiful.
Bottom L-R : Claire wearing Commes des Garcons … Black and white exhibition dresses by Commes des Garcons … Dress by Chopova Lowena … Christopher in Modluxeyewear Glasses.
Originally located on Dover Street in Mayfair, London, now in New York City (160 Lexington, entrance on 30th Street) as well as Tokyo, Singapore, Beijing and Los Angeles
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