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“Lawrence does a really good job of keeping up with fashion. I feel like we have a pretty good handle on what’s ‘in.’”
— Pamela Brown
ALI EDWARDS
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couple weeks ago, Lawrence resident Pamela Brown got to cross an item off her bucket list. This 30-year-old hairstylist and fashionista hopped off the plane at La Guardia airport in New York City on Feb. 10 and headed straight for an Express photo shoot. A couple days later, she assisted Peter Gray, a highly respected coif creator, on a Badgley Mischka runway show. Yes, that’s right — Brown, who works at Lou and Co Hair Studio at 31st and Iowa streets, got to do what only a handful of hopeful hairstylists get to do in a lifetime: she worked New York Fashion Week. She was invited after impressing Gray during a fall Aveda hair show in Minneapolis. “I’ve never worked so hard in my life. It’s so cutthroat there,” she said. “I didn’t talk, and I didn’t complain; I just listened.” Badgley Mischka showcased an array of metallics and furs for fall 2012, and trends are showing nudes and pastels as being “in” for spring 2012. Pamela says she thinks color blocking, pairing large blocks of complimentary colors together,
Pamela Brown photos
will still be a trend to follow during in the fall, but she’s hoping for a bit of a different color blocking approach. “Pastels will be huge in the spring, and so will color blocking. What I’d like to see is color blocking pastels with pops of neon,” she explained. As for the “nude color” trend, I have to admit, it scares me. My fair-skinned,
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freckled complexion does not bode well for nude-hued garments. Pamela reassured me, though, saying that I should choose clothes with a beige base instead of a creme or pink base, like darker skinned people can get away with. Hair for fall 2012 is refreshingly not a sleek pony tail or straight hair. In fact, Pamela claims it’s going to be all about texturized curls, like these two photos show. I can assure you my unmanageable locks
are screaming with delight. But what about right now? What’s “in” at this moment? What were the audience members wearing to runway shows? A lot of scarves, a lot of neutrals, and, because it’s New York, a lot of black. “Lawrence does a really good job of keeping up with fashion. I feel like we have a pretty good handle on what’s ‘in.’ People who were watching the shows look like people walking around the streets here,” Pamela said. While I do believe Lawrence is an anomaly when it comes to fashion in the Midwest, Pamela noted that high fashion is becoming accessible to the everyday person. Labels like Prada and Burberry have started offering live streams of their New York Fashion Week runway shows, and some designers have begun advanced contemporary categories of labels that cost less than high-end designer collections. So, you heard it here first (maybe): 2012 is going to be all about nudes, pastels, metallics, free-flowing hair and accessibility to high fashion. Bring it on. — Ali Edwards can be reached at go@ljworld.com.
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