Hair Jewelry from Broken Up Earrings – 2023

Photo: © Helen Oppenheim
Peter Gray used broken up Badgley Mischka earrings from the collection as hair jewelry at the Badgley Mischka New York Fashion Week “Romantic Futurism” Show for Fall/Winter 2023. He and his team burned the midnight oil preparing for the show and making hair jewelry for many models with broken up earrings and fabrics from the collection. Such a simple idea, so easy to do and jewelry in the hair can be eye-catching. To see more hair jewelry, some interesting hair, accessories, the fabulous fashions from the show, CLICK HERE
Lead Hair: Peter Gray, Home Agency … Hair Products: Intelligent Nutrients … Hair Tools: Olivia Garden … Lead Makeup: Mary Irwin, using Viseart Paris … Photo: Helen Oppenheim
CommentBadgley Mischka Face NYFW Fall – 2023

Photo: Helen Oppenheim
The face by Mary Irwin for the Badgley Mischka New York Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2023 Show was inspired by Tamara De Lempicka, the portrait painter loved by the beauty and fashion worlds.
“This makeup is structured but painterly, soft but defined,” said Irwin. “It’s an ultimate play on using shadow and light to create depth, almost trompe l’oeil.” ViseArt Duo Chrome gave the lid reflectiveness. The soft structure of the eye had an elongated shape, with soft dimension going up almost to the brow, hard edges softened beneath the eye where Gold Liner was blended in the lower lash. There was no lower lash mascara, the upper lashes were curled, with just a little mascara. Blush was applied as a diffusion, fair or medium skins got a taupey/neutral lip, darker skins got a berry tone patted in. To see the Peter Gray hair, the “Romantic Futurist” fashions, earrings and more, CLICK HERE
Lead Makeup: Mary Irwin using Viseart Paris …Model: Somin Park … Photo: Helen Oppenheim
CommentPeter Gray HaIr Badgley Mischka NYFW- 2023

’60s Inspo Photos Left: Richard Avedon. Backstage Photos Right: Helen Oppenheim
The hair for the Badgley Mischka New York Fashion Week Show at Spring Studios for Fall/Winter 2023 was by the one and only Peter Gray. The designers sent him the collage on the left for hair inspiration, of girls in bars and restaurants by Richard Avedon in the 1960s.
There were 40 models, and here are few of the looks the innovative hair designer adapted, making the hair interesting from every angle – front sides, back, something so few attempt to do for runway fashion shows for which we see too many safe ponytails and boring buns or nothing hair. Peter made the hair jewelry from Badgley Mischka earrings, broken up, and fabrics from the designers’ collection with the help of Jamie Hollis, Sammi and his hair team, who burned the midnight oil!!
To see more hair photos, with step by steps, details how the hair was done, the lovely Mary Irwin makeup and more on the “Romantic Futurism” Collection by James Mischka and Mark Badgley, CLICK HERE
Lead Hair: Peter Gray, Home Agency … Hair Products: Intelligent Nutrients … Tools: Oliva Garden … Lead Makeup: Mary Irwin using Viseart Paris … Photos: Helen Oppenheim
CommentDream Dress @ NYFW – SS 2023

Photosa: Helen Oppenheim
Red Carpet dream dresses at the Badgley Mischka NY Fashion Week SS 2023 show were inspired by Morocco – the dessert, the spices, the fruits, the trees, the sea, the colors, all burnished to a cosmopolitan polish. The hair by the Peter Gray Team was simple, with movements, brushed back off the face, gelled on the top and at the sides. Makeup by Mary Irwin was customized and included warm mango shades giving subtle mouth watering looks to the eyes, all were harmonized with the glamorous fashions. To see the whole collection, CLICK HERE
Lead Hair: Peter Gray … Hair: Jamie Hollis and The Peter Gray Hair Team using Intel-Sense Intelligent Hair Products … Lead Makeup: Mary Irwin using Glow Oasis and La Fatale Beauty … Nails: Daria Hardeman, Sakar … Photos: Helen Oppenheim
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CommentBadgley Mischka Fashion Kid Now – 2022

Photos Helen Oppenheim. Collage helenoppenheim.com
This is 6 year old Violet backstage at the Badgley Mischka SS 2023 New York Fashion Week Show. She is wearing a dream dress designed by her Mom, Emily, Design Director at Badgley Mischka. Violet is holding my iPhone showing a photo I took of her which is archived on my website at the Spring 2016 Show, when she was 5 month fashion baby. To see the Morocco-inspired Badgley Miscka Colllection on this website CLICK HERE and to see more of Violet, CLICK HERE
CommentStunning white ruffled collar with stunning earrings photographed backstage at the Badgley Mischka Fall/Winter 2020 New York Fashion Week Show. The designers were inspired by “Downton Abbey” the hit TV series set in Edwardian Times and “Abbey Road” of Beatles fame in the 60s and 70s. Stay tuned for more, and the hair, some with jeweled headpieces, by Peter Gray.
CommentRuffled Collar @ Badgley Mischka – 2020
The high white ruffled collar was a stand out at the Badgley Mischka Fall/Winter 2020 New York Fashion Week Show held at Spring Studios. Inspiration “Downton Abbey” (Edwardian) and “Abbey Road” Beatles (’60s and ’70s). Stay tuned for more. And Peter Gray’s hair with a visual how-to.
Hair: Peter Gray/Home Agency using Kerastase … Makeup: Mary Irwin/Factory Downtown using custom Viseart … Photos: Helen Oppenheim
CommentShoulder Interest @ Badgley Mischka – 2020
Shoulders came into focus at the Badgley Mischka Spring 2020 New York Fashion Week Show. Big shoulders, puffy shoulders, frilly shoulders, decorated shoulders, all gorgeous. With a kind of tropical feel inspired by the American Glam elegance when Hollywood movie stars played in the Caribbean, in the ’30s and ’40s. The hair by Felix Fischer was classic, the lips by Mary Irwin were a cool red with a satin finish, finger patted on. For more from this show, CLICK HERE
Hair: Felix Fischer using Kerastase … Makeup: Mary Irwin, Factory Downtown/Viseart … Photos: Helen Oppenheim
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