Catherine, one of our therapists at Lucy & The Powder Room in Newmarket, showed her creative talents when she produced a whimsical and slightly haunting makeup look for the Minuit video clip 'Wayho'. See stills below. For full video clip click here.

Upstairs in the Stephen Marr studio Charlotte Rust from Fast & Loose is being filmed
for our website, as she fashions two of our customised vintage Fashion Week t-shirts and some shoulder pads into an amazing cape. The project was filmed for a competition we had running throughout Air NZ Fashion Week.

The beauty of youth always provides the centre of gravity for Karen Walker shows, as well as the coolest hats this side of the equator. Glowing skin was called for and model faces were prepped with mini facials from Lucy and the Powderroom then sweetly colored with powder-pink cheeks and coral lips, hair was blown out smooth and clean keeping a floaty volume through the top and drawn from a centre part over the ears into a low ponytail at the base of the nape.

In an ode to Judith Baragwanath, conspicuously unfashionable Auckland scandalizer, Kate Sylvester sent out a collection with a masculine bent and cross gender dressing. Makeup featured the trademark Baragwanath black lip and hair was scrapped back and dewey, mimicking the look of morning hair that still carries the residue of the night before. To get this look mix Sebastian Matte Paste and Taming Elixir together in the palm of your hand and rake your fingers through your hair, secure it with a couple of tortoise shell slides low at the back, and finish off with a generous spray of Sebastian Halo Mist shine spray all through the ends.

Salasai designer Kirscha Witcher pays tribute to the 90’s with a mix of androgyny, power dressing and big hair. Texture created with mini crimps and tongs is blown out and flung from a low side part. 90’s perms make a comeback for this show.

The NOM*d show was a spin on rights of passage in religion. The coming-of-age and loss of innocence. The hair look for the show represents the transition between childlike innocence and worldly sensuality, bound by hand in sections around the head in a reconfigured version of green room wig wraps.

An epic combination of designers, both have a talent for capturing the freshness of youth with their collections, adding a twist of course and calling for flat out beautiful hair. The hair for this show reworks the brash beauty of 1940’s New York, this time leaving the can of hairspray at home in favour of a soft and sleepy silhouette.

Take a look at the beautiful short film, 'Serpentine', by Special Problems for Cybele. The film showcases Cybele's latest 'Serpentine' range in a way like no other. Hair by Lauren Gunn with assistance from Teresa Grice and Elyse Scott.

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belle du jour gets into double trouble with 6X2 drop dead looks created by the Stephen Marr team especially for girls who like to have fun at the ball and look good while they're at it.

LONELY HEARTS MISS CRABB JULIETTE HOGAN

CYBELE KAREN WALKER    FAST AND LOOSE

TWILIGHT This is a look for creatures of the night, severe centre parts and falling ragged waves, blood black lips, stained eyes and pale skin. An homage to Stephanie Meyer’s fascinating novels, the modern undead are darkly feminine in frills and heels from lonely hearts.

OLD FASHION A cheeky remake of old fashioned glam with the volume turned up a notch. Hot red and magenta lips, navy cats eyes teamed with frocks of electric teal and gold from cybele and an old time set of waves in the hair taken away over one shoulder puts an eighties spin on things.

THE NEW STRAIGHT Volume is hot and this classic 60’s bouffant is beaten into shape with a kinky mix of textures we call the new straight. There’s not a hint of color to be seen with contoured eyes framed by sweeping black liquid flicks, matte nude lips and short, billowy sleeved, shift dresses from Miss Crabb.

ANGEL An halo of braids and coils in the hair makes a simple sillhouette, while a little bit of matted texture gives it an otherworld edge, mixed up with karen walker’s deep blue ruffles and offwhite belle shapes the look is sweetened with eyes shadowed gold and peachy pink lips.

SUNDAYS CHILD All at once young, innocent and wild in Juliette Hogan flowing floral dresses. With hair swept up in a loose top knot with rebelious fraying edges and pale rose smudges across eyes and lips this is romance undone.

POMPADOUR Todays power dressing for hair is the new pompadour, sleek and androgenous with a top heavy twist. Fast and Loose unleashes monochromatic style with bodycon bandage dresses and oversize fur coats and the look is pushed that little bit further with heavily emphasised cheeks and brows in earthy matte browns.

Air New Zealand Fashion Week 08 is now behind us! Stephen Marr brought you all the news, updates and behind-the-scenes sneak-peeks you could want. Visit our dedicated Fashion Week site below to catch up with all the hottest designers, from up and comers like Alexandra Owen and Alex Kim of Jaeha to the superstars of New Zealand fashion Karen Walker, Nom*D & Adrian Hailwood plus many many more of our favourite people!

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