Selkie Angel @ NY Fashion Week SS2024
Photos: Helen Oppenheim
This Selkie Angel is from the Selkie whimsical fantasy fairytale New York Fashion Week Show for Spring/Summer 2024 at the St. Regis Hotel. The show was inspired by the Cottingley Sisters, who convinced the world in 1917 that fairies must exist.
Creative Director and Designer Kimberly Gordon (@Selkie), who created a superspectacular show. asked “Do You Believe?” She does. And she transported everyone back in time to play dress up – “to embrace your inner child” with her cream puff dresses modernized with magic.
Feminine pretty hair was by Linh Nguyen for Cutler/Redken and the makeup by Lottie for Color Pop featured soft bow lips, a flush-like blush and a mole (not shown here). To see 27 photos with the designer’s nostalgic fantasy fashions, CLICK HERE
Hair: Linh Nguyen for Cutler Salons/Redken … Products: Redken
Makeup: Lottie for Colour Pop. … Photos Helen Oppenheim
Nardos Amam’s Gilded Age @ NYFW – 2024
Photos: Helen Oppenhiem. Collage: helenoppenheim.com
Nardos Amam’s opulent New York Fashion Week Collection for Fall/Winter 2024 was held at The Lotus Club. The couture and ready to wear fashions featured plants, birds, flowers – embroidered or appliqued onto the gorgeous gowns. The collection was inspired by the Gilded Age with a contemporary twist. The eye makeup by Marcello Costa was stunning, with 5,000 Swarovski crystals glittering from eyes, the hair by Brian Buenaventura for Cutler/Redken was casual, updos with wisps flying here and there, the hats and headgear by Christine A. Moore Millinery were fun, and elegant. It was all very elegant.
To see 35 photos, CLICK HERE for the Nardos Amam album on this website (full info coming soon to the album, along with my Instagram and Facebook photos and videos, etc.
Lead Hair: Brian Buenaventura for Cutler Redken … Redken Texture Spray … Makeup: Marcello Costa … Shoes: Manolo Blahnik … Jewelry Verstolo … Hats: Christine A. Moore Millinery … Gloves: Portolano… Atelier PR … Photos: Helen Oppenheim
CommentPlayful at Tara Babylon’s NYFW S2024
Photos: Helen Oppenheim. Collage helenoppenheim.com
Playful hair, makeup and fashions at Tara Babylons’s New York Fashion Week’s Presentation for Spring 2024. The makeup, by Maite Moreira for New York Make Up Academy was “very pastel looking, very pinkish and very girly, yet very sexy, creaed to match a dreamy vibe.” A multichrome pigment flake decorated eyelids, a pastel pink draping blush, iridescent cheekbones and rhinestones were added for extra texture. Mascara was pink or white. While Rodney Cutler’s hair for the Presentation was Edwardian and romantic, there was also this classic bob. Flowers by Doan Ly decorated all heads. To see 33 photos including the playful pastel Tara Babylon fashions archived on the website, CLICK HERE
Lead HaIr: Rodney Cutler, Cutler Salons … Products: Redken … Makeup: Maite Moreira for New York Makeup Academy … Flowers: Doan Li … Photos: Helen Oppenheim
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SELKIE FAIRY MAGIC NYFW SS2024
Photos: Helen Oppenheim and Getty Images (two center) … Collage helenoppenheim.com
The Selkie New York Fashion Week Show for Spring 2024 which took place in the St Regis rooftop ballroom was something else. It was a whimsical fantasy fairy tale showcasing models of all sizes, ages, one gorgeous girl in a wheelchair, two burlesque performers. Inspired by the Cottingley Sisters, who convinced the world in 1917 that fairies might exist, Creative Director and Designer, Kimberly Gordon, produced a superspectacular show. She asks “Do You Believe?” She does, and she transported everyone back in time to play dress up – “to embrace your inner child” with her cream puff dresses modernized with magic.
The feminine pretty hairstyles, many with hair extensions, was by Linh Nguyen for Cutler/Redken, and the make up by Lottie for Colour Pop featured a mole, soft bow lips, a flush-like blush.
To see the album with 27 photos CLICK HERE and to see videos of the show on Instagram CLICK HERE (check Posts and Highlighted Stories)
Hair: Linh Nguyen for Cutler Salons … Products: Redken … Hair Extensions: EasiHairPro …
Makeup: Lottie for Colour Pop Cosmetics … Models: Daphne Marleen Iaan (top left & center) … Pearls Daily (top right) … Kaitlin Sommer (bottom left and center) … Photos: Helen Oppenheim (top left and right, bottom left and right) … Getty Images (top center and bottom center)
Biodegradable Crowns @ PH5 NYFW– 2023
Photos: Fred J. DeVito
For the PH5 New York Fashion Week Presentation for Spring Summer 2023, innovative sustainability was a focus for the whimsical knitwear brand, which is New York and China based, and was designed by Win Lin and Zoe Champion. The designers were inspired by mermaids and sirens, and the collection was dedicated to ocean preservation.
The biodegradable hair crowns and other accessories by Caroline Zimbalist made a statement, For fashions and more on this show, CLICK HERE
Lead Hair: Carly Loura, Cutler Salons … Products: Redken … Lead Makeup: Maile, New York Makeup Academy … Photos: Fred J. DeVito.
CommentFuturistic Men @ Bosideng NYFW – 2022
Photos: Helen Oppenheim. Collage helenoppenheim.com
Futuristic men captured backstage at the Bosideng Spring Summer 2023 New York Fashion Week Show designed by Toray Wang and styled by Creative Consultant Carine Roitfeld, the former Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Paris, now founder and editor-in-chief of CR Fashion Book. For more backstage photos, CLICK HERE
Hair: Rodney Cutler, Cutler Salons/Redken … Hair Products: Redken and Cutler … Makeup: Romana Lai using Decorté … Photos and Collage by Helen Oppenheim
CommentCynthia Rowley Peluquerias Magazine – 2022
Photos: Fred J. DeVito
This is the Cynthia Rowley Page for NY Fashion Week Spring 2022 in my Peluquerias Magazine column. It is one of 7 pages in the January issue. The hair for the show was by Rodney Cutler, Cutler Salons, NY, and was “elegant, deconstructed, a return to glamour with a young attitude. The girly, playful sexy show, held at Wagner Park, was inspired by the early 2000s. To see these photos and more from the show bigger, with full credits, CLICK HERE
Hair: Rodney Cutler, Cutler Salons, Products: Redken … Makeup: Cassandra Garcia, Bobbi Brown … Photos: Fred J. DeVito
CommentLa Perla Veil Look @ NYFW – 2017
Photo: Jane Kratochvil
“The La Perla woman is the epitome of sexy and strong,” said Teddy Charles at the first ever New York Fashion Week Runway Show for the La Perla lingerie brand. He played up the texture of the hair and topped it with a veiled headpiece to add a sense of chic mystery and fun. For more from the show, CLICK HERE
Hair: Teddy Charles and Cutler/Redken … Products: Cutler Volumizing Spray, Redken Windblown 05, Forceful 23 Super Strength Hairspray … Makeup: Erin Parsons, Maybelline … Photo: Jane Kratochvil
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