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As models took to the final runway and editors boarded evening flights out of Paris Fashion Week, the week’s standout beauty looks almost seemed deceptively simple. For example, models backstage at Isabel Marant said the best antidote to doomscrolls for fall/winter 2026 is getting lost in a novel, and they shared their book club recommendations with us. Fashion beauty. Then there are the simple part switches by Duffy, the hairstylist at Saint Laurent, and those by Anthony Turner, the hairstylist at Hermès and Acne Studios. Finally, the once-mocked side part is back in its full prominence (a styling detail Fashion Discover upcoming seasons).
After a lot of creepy, gothic looks in New York and smoky looks in Milan, Paris washed away everything but the traces of eyeliner from Dior makeup artist Peter Philips and Schiaparelli’s Pat McGrath’s morning makeup. Whether it’s Chloé’s Turner hair extensions wrapped in gold-plated jewelry, or Chanel’s Duffy braided sparkling wire hair accessories, sparkling hair accessories make the overall look more sophisticated. This is enough to encourage anyone to pick up a baubles, a brooch and a bunch of hairpins and try something new.
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Photo: Courtesy of Chloé
High and low hair accessories have arrived. At Chanel, Duffy attached thousands of tiny wires to models’ hairlines to create what looked like holographic comb marks, while at Celine he just wrapped a simple string around the model’s forehead. At Dries Van Noten, hairstylist Olivier Schwalder affixed hundreds of shiny barrettes to models’ heads, occasionally adding gold jewelry to the ears. Turner was undoubtedly one of the busiest artists this season, adding jewel-wrapped hair accessories and an elf tiara he called “a memory tied to the hair” on Ann Demeulemeester, where he carried a can of L’Oréal Paris Elnett hairspray in his back pocket. Turner said Chemena Kamali was inspired by a woman discovering the world and herself. “The hair is meant to reflect her journey in her natural environment,” he explains. “We made a braid in her hair that was adorned with Chloé jewelry—I thought it represented the little trinkets she found on her travels and wore them in her hair.”
