When Karl Lagerfeld turned his couture show into a giant garden, complete with 300 mechanic flowers that opened in bloom during the show, it must have been a meeting of minds with our very own Sam McKnight, the most green-fingered hairdresser in the industry. Speaking backstage Sam said: “Hair in the Chanel garden was in soft, romantic, loose braids, some fastened with a plastic flower on the end and accented with veils and hats a-plenty”. And what was Sam’s technique? To extend the length of all the models’ hair and to braid it into a fine point so it tapered in child-like fashion. To give hair playable texture, he blow-dried hair smooth and made it workable with Oribe’s Hair Texturiser and finished off the style with a smoothing spritz of Sebastian Forte Hairspray. “It was important to me that the hairstyle was light and natural”, Sam explained. “I wanted it to have a feeling as if blown by a gentle garden breeze”. Chanel hair? Easy breezy. All that remains is to get our hands on one of those couture hair accessories… Perhaps not so easy!
See more of Sam’s backstage imagery on Vogue.co.uk
See each individual look up close and in detail on Style.com
Watch the video of the show in all its glory.
