Orlando Pita Origami Inspiration – Spring 2011
Photo: Helen Oppenheim
ORLANDO PITA’S ORIGAMI INSPIRATION
A Favorite Revisited. Orlando Pita’s origami hair at the Carolina Herrrera Mercedes-Benz NY Fashion Week Spring 2011 show was inspired by Asian, especially Korean influences. Love, love love it. For more of this beautiful innovative hair idea and how it was done, CLICK HERE
Hair: Orlando Pita, Orlo Salon, NYC for Moroccanoil … Photo: Helen Oppenheim
CommentThe Big Tease, Big Young Hair – 2012
Photo: © Helen Oppenheim
“Teased, big, young,” said Orlando Pita about this dramatic free-flowing polished bouffant hair to there. A thin headband is added to the front of the head for this big tease from the Carolina Herrera Fall 2012 New York Fashion Week show. Step by steps, other versions, some fashions later, click here:
Hair: Orlando Pita, Orlo Salon, for Moroccanoil … Makeup: Diane Kendal for MAC Cosmetics ….
Photo: © Helen Oppenheim
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Trending. Tiny Treats – 2014
Photos: © Helen Oppenheim … Collage by helenoppenheim.com
Tiny treats are trending slowly but surely – and none too soon for those weight challenged who also have a sweet tooth. I had one small brownie yesterday at Pain de Quotidien Bakery in NY. It was enough (Photo top left and right, seen here with small madeleines.)
At the Betsey Johnson Spring 2012 NY Fashion Week show I photographed the tiny treats, bottom left, Baked my Melissa, who has since opened in a dozen mostly NY locations. Carolina Herrera has been offering tiny bagels and croissants backstage for years, but I don’t see them anywhere else, except sometimes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Press events. Why not? In fact, I see croissants bigger than ever with zillions of calories in too many otherwise good bakeries, often not baked as well as they should be! Time for tiny treats, Let’s help make it happen …
Photos: © Helen Oppenheim
CommentChignon With Beads @ Carolina Herrera – 2010
Photo: © Helen Oppenheim
As New York Fashion Week nears for Spring 2015 (September 4th to 11th) here’s a look-back to Spring 2010. With hope and a prayer there will be more ideas like this, and not too many ponytails and nothing hair! This modern chic chignon had bronze, gold or silver beads embedded by Orlando Pita for Carolina Herrera’s New York Fashion Week show that year. The beads, on a headband, showed through easy-going, gently-twisted, tucked-under knots of hair resting elegantly on napes. The hair wasn’t stiff, structured, or too perfect and was exquisite. For more versions and details how to do it, click
Hair: Orlando Pita, Orlo Salon, NY using Moroccanoil … Photo: Helen Oppenheim
CommentA Collage Mistake, Revisiting Favorites – 2011
Dancing Hair Photos by Geoffrey Hargrave Thomas … Origami Hair Photos: Helen Oppenheim
Sometimes, mistakes can be beautiful. Right, a collage which just happened, a mistake. But so interesting, I thought you’d like to see it. Top and to both sides are photos from the website cover (Dancing Hair, La Coupe’s Antonio da Costa Rocha, 1986) and center are photos from Carolina Herrera’s Mercedes-Benz NY Fashion Week Spring 2011 (Orlando Pita’s Origami Hair.) All photos just happen to be my all-time favorites. Revisited, the Origami Hair to left, a beautiful innovative hair idea, the kind of hair not seen often enough at NY Fashion Weeks!
For more Dancing Hair and a video of Fred and Ginger Dancing Cheek to Cheek in Top Hat, click here:
For more Origami Hair, backstage photos, more versions and fashions, click here:
ORLANDO PITA @ CAROLINA HERRERA – 2010
Photo: © Helen Oppenheim
Third in a series featuring the talent in action working on the photos in the Archives.
Orlando Pita, Orlo Salon, demonstrating his beaded headbands for TV backstage for Moroccaanoil at the Carolina Herrera Summer 2010 Fashion Week Show. To see the album on this show and how creatively the headband was worked into the hair, click here:
Photo: © Helen Oppenheim
CommentCurled, Low, Polished Hair, Orlando Pita – 2008
Photo: Helen Oppenheim
Please, God. Please no ordinary everyday ponytails at any of the shows I am going to photograph at during New York Fashion Week for Fall 2014, which starts for me on Thursday. At least this one is a low curled polished ponytail with a little something going on. Hair by Orlando Pita, Orlo Salon, for Carolina Herrera’s Spring 2008 Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week show. For more from various Fashion Week shows, click
Photo: Helen Oppenheim
CommentOn A Roll, Carolina Herrera – Fall 2013
Photo: Helen Oppenheim
For Carolina Herrars’s Fall 2013 NY Fashion Week show, Orlando Pita, Orlo Salon, designed sleek mid-parted styles – elegant hair rolls designed close to the head, tightly coiled, wider at the front.
The modern, graphic 40s-inpsired styles went with the many high necks in the fabulous show. The fashions were for today’s dressed-up woman with fur details on the sleeves, waists, necks, dresses, everywhere – all worn with flirty skirt movements and red lips by Diane Kendal for Mac. For more, go to NY Fashion Week, Fall 2013 on www.helenoppenheim.com
Hair: Orlando Pita, Orlo Salon, using Moroccanoil … Makeup: Diane Kendal, Mac Cosmetics … Model: Daphne Groeneveld … Photo: Helen Oppenheim
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