freshly dead

When I created this hat I was in the zone, for real.   I wanted to create something that looked like it was about to fly.  One morning while I was walking my dogs I found a freshly dead crow.  I brought it home and to my boyfriends horror I cut the wings off.  I then mummified them.   I placed them in cornmeal in a shoe box in a closet for 45 days.  This prevents any contamination or odor.  They don't smell and they look fresh.  I finished by fixing it on a suede like material, added 40'' laces and several giant black crystals.  J.C can rock this look for days.

the BARRETTE!

I can't wait to try this. It's just amazing!

Guido (Redken): They’re Goody barrettes! They sent me 6,000 barrettes…we’re not using all of them. Sarah [Burton] showed me pictures of the past and pictures of the future, and I wanted it to be a head that wasn’t too big…I wanted it to be very modern and hard, but kind of soft at the same time. I was thinking of reflection—plastics and metals—and that movie Tron, the original and the remake. So all those kind of things. I’d done a ponytail covered in barrettes before, but here I flipped it up and did the whole head. So that’s how I got here. It’s amazing that something so inexpensive—these drugstore things that you get on a card—can be made into something so beautiful. I always say to people about hair accessories: it’s not what you spend, it’s what you do with them.