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
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Photos Helen’s Blog Mar 26-Jan 20 – 2025

Full Photo Credits in Blog and archived on website. Collage by helenoppenheim.com
Collage of photos, hair history, info and inspo on Helen’s Blog from March 26 to January 20, 2025. Full credits on The Website Like No Other – helenoppenheim.com
Top Row L-R : Me in Zara top, blog on Brigitte Seguara to Fashion Styling Rescue, photo Joe Rivers … RIP Trevor Sorbie, Hair Legend … Baby it’s cold outside, keep warm fashions for frigid days, Nicholas K Photos Helen Oppenheim, Vera Wang fur coat Photos courtesy Vera Wang … Adam Lister “Lady with a Pikachu” pixelated art painting at the GR Gallery “Graphic Serendipity” exhibition …
2nd Row : Curly and sleek hair by Linh Nguyen for Cutler Salons/Redken at Patbo NYFW show Fall 2024, photos Fred J. DeVito … Dear Karmala. You Hair Needs Help, photos Helen Oppenheim thanks to ABC TV and MSNBC TV … PH5 NY Fashion Week Fall 2024 witty fashions, hair by Carly Loura, Cutler Salons/Redken, photos Fred J. DeVito … Meike “Heist” Humor, NY Fashion Week Fall 2024, hair Britt Dion for Aveda, makeup Michelle Webb, photos Fred J. DeVito …
3rd Row : Holiday Hair Inspo Then & Now, full credits archived on Website … NAHA /PBA Winners announced 2024, hair Brayden Pelletier, Just B Salons, Photos Chrystopher Benson … Happy Holidays 2024, illustration/hair George Karkoulas, 1992 … Happy Thanksgiving 2024, image Pixabay … Easter Parade on 5th Avemue 2024 photos by Helen Oppenheim … Happy New Year With Bottoms Up, hair by Kim Lepine, La Coupe for L’Oreal 1975, Photo Klaus Lucka (colorized and upside down by Helen Oppenheim.) To see the latest Helen’s Blogs highlighting work archived on this website, CLICK HERE
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Photos Helen’s Blog Mar 26-Jan 20 – 2025

Full Photo Credits in Blog and archived on website. Collage by helenoppenheim.com
Collage of photos, hair history, info and inspo on Helen’s Blog from March 26 to January 20, 2025. Full credits on The Website Like No Other – helenoppenheim.com
Top Row L-R : Me in Zara top, blog on Brigitte Seguara to Fashion Styling Rescue, photo Joe Rivers … RIP Trevor Sorbie, Hair Legend … Baby it’s cold outside, keep warm fashions for frigid days, Nicholas K Photos Helen Oppenheim, Vera Wang fur coat Photos courtesy Vera Wang … Adam Lister “Lady with a Pikachu” pixelated art painting at the GR Gallery “Graphic Serendipity” exhibition …
2nd Row : Curly and sleek hair by Linh Nguyen for Cutler Salons/Redken at Patbo NYFW show Fall 2024, photos Fred J. DeVito … Dear Karmala. You Hair Needs Help, photos Helen Oppenheim thanks to ABC TV and MSNBC TV … PH5 NY Fashion Week Fall 2024 witty fashions, hair by Carly Loura, Cutler Salons/Redken, photos Fred J. DeVito … Meike “Heist” Humor, NY Fashion Week Fall 2024, hair Britt Dion for Aveda, makeup Michelle Webb, photos Fred J. DeVito …
3rd Row : Holiday Hair Inspo Then & Now, full credits archived on Website … NAHA /PBA Winners announced 2024, hair Brayden Pelletier, Just B Salons, Photos Chrystopher Benson … Happy Holidays 2024, illustration/hair George Karkoulas, 1992 … Happy Thanksgiving 2024, image Pixabay … Easter Parade on 5th Avemue 2024 photos by Helen Oppenheim … Happy New Year With Bottoms Up, hair by Kim Lepine, La Coupe for L’Oreal 1975, Photo Klaus Lucka (colorized and upside down by Helen Oppenheim.) To see All Collages archived on the Website, CLICK HERE
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Adam Lister Art @ Graphic Serendipity Show

Adam Lister “Lady with a Pikachu” 2024 (acrylic on canvas 30 x 24″)
This brilliant work of art is “Lady with a Pikachu” by Adam Lister. It can be viewed at the “Graphic Serendipity” exhibition January 16 (through February 8th, 2025) at the GR Gallery, 255 Bowery, near Houston Street in NYC.
The exhibition features the artworks of three artists – Adam Lister, Gavin Lynch and Jiri Mayer and takes inspiration from the “Cybernetic Serendipity” groundbreaking event in London, which was the first exhibition to demonstrate all aspects of computer-aided creative activity in 1968, then toured across the United States. GR Gallery say this 2025 exhibition “focuses on the mechanical sense as a new manner in art, seeking to explore how digital sensibilities are integrated into contemporary painting through the unique perspectives of the three artists.”
Lister’s pixelated pop art paintings, inspired by recognizable famous paintings, are in the spirit of cubism. Regarding the process for “Lady with a Pikachu” Lister says he “first made a loose sketch of the original subject on the canvas, then I went through to breakdown the initial drawing through a sort of reductive process. I draw over my first sketch, turning all curved and diagonal lines into horizontal or vertical lines., Then, I begin the painting process. Using acrylic paint, I fill in one shape at a time, gradually building up the blocks of color. With this piece, I painted the background first, then the figure of the Lady, then the Pikachu. I sample the colors from the original subject, while also using a palette that slightly varies across the surface of each field. For example the yellow of Pikachu is actually made up of different blocks of 4 different shades of yellow.”
This colorific Lister work of art can be viewed as a modern interpretation for today – and beyond.
Adam Lister, “Lady with a Pikachu 2024
(after “Lady with Ermine” by Leonardo da Vinci 1489)
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Holiday 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
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.
CommentRIP Trevor Sorbie, Hair Legend – 2024

Trevor Sorbie Hair Photos – Collage helenoppenheim.com
Trevor Sorbie, MBE, Award-Winning Hair Legend, Icon Like No Other, passed away at 75 years old – 1949-2024. The hair world has lost one of the greatest ever. His work was beyond amazing. In my archives – somewhere in a closet jam-packed with fantastic hair images from all over the world – I have a lot of his early press releases, with some of his great innovations. Here are just a few.
Top Row: Here is how I remember Trevor Sorbie. With me, in 1996. at an industry event. I used to publish his extraordinary pioneering work in articles for many magazines and admired him and his work tremendously. Around this time, he called me and asked me to do PR for him/his products in America. I had just left John Sahag and never wanted to do PR again (!) so told him he’d have to persuade me. He replied something like, you will have to persuade me. And that was that! On the right, is Sorbie’s famous Waves of Stone, The Sphinx, 1989.
Bottom Row: The Wedge, 1974 by Sorbie when he was with Vidal Sassoon and Flames 1992.
More on trevorsorbie.com … Instagram: @trevorsorbie … facebook.com/TrevorSorbie/
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