Fashion week teams - autumn/winter 2010 looks
London Fashion Week, as well as the other major fashion weeks in Milan and Paris presented platforms for UK hairdressing teams to showcase their creative skills and work with top designers in their autumn/winter 2010 collections.
We look at an overview of the teams that worked tirelessly backstage at Fashion Week and some of the looks that they created.
London Fashion Week
Maria Grachvogal and Wella Professionals
The Team: A Wella Professionals styling team with Christopher Cox - Marc Antoni, Martin Quenault - KH Hair, Charlotte Vernon from Francesco Group and Alex Green - HOB Salons, and led by international hairstylist, Kenna.
The Clothes: The collection celebrated the power of women by combining creativity with functionality including tailored cuts to enhance the female form.
The Hair: Hair was styled to have loose movement and texture, complementing the ruffled edges This softened the structure of the pieces.
Create the look: A textured base was created on the hair, then added volume to the roots and movement through the ends with a rough blow-dry.
Hair was loosely fixed at the back of the head in a messy, Parisian plait providing the curves and movement the look required.
Hair was then sprayed to finish and tailored around the clothes to work with the sculptured shoulders and high necks of the seasonal collection.
MariaFranscescaPepe and Redken
The Team: Hair by Raphael Sally for Redken
The Clothes: Says Raphael Sally: "The inspiration behind the MFP clothes collection was the wolf - there's been lots going on with wolves in recent months, including the release of the film Wolfman.
The Hair: "To fit with this theme for the hair we looked to American Indian culture for inspiration and then changed the texture of the hair. It call it psychedelic Indian."
Create the look: Create an extreme middle parting and slick the hair down with Redken Pure Force 20 used very close and in excess at the roots. This will give the root area a slick or greasy texture.
Take sections either side of the head starting just behind the ear and bind the hair around ear level with black band.
The band should wrap around for a couple of centimetres to give the sqaw effect. Brush the remainder of the hair back mattifying the ends with Redken Style Connection matte sponge
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Marios Shwarb and BaByliss Pro
The Team: Headed by Adam Reed this year's F.A.M.E Team - Kim Rance (Clipso, Watford), Ross Taylor (Falltrick's, Essex), Ben Moth (Brooks and Brooks, London) and Olive Tucker (House of Colour, Dublin). Current London Hairdresser of the Year, Darren Bain (hob salons), Danielle Hollis, also from the award winning hob salons; BBC3 Young Hairdresser of the Year, Christopher Appleton (George's Hairdressing, Leicester) and Lisa Shepherd's, Katie Mulcahy, who was a member of the 2009 F.A.M.E Team, Dom Capel, Harriet White and Percy & Reed's, Paul Percival, Massi Revenni and Andrew John
The Clothes: Pinafore-style dresses were combined with sleek white shirts, structured jackets and cut-out fabrics.
The Hair: The BaByliss Pro team created gorgeous, sleek, almost wet-look hair with a deep side parting, tucking into the nape to join a perfect fishtail braid, running centrally down the 
back - inspired by, and representing the spine.
Create the look: Says Adam Reed, BaByliss Pro Creative Director for the show: "To achieve a glass-like finish and with not a hair out of place, preparation is key and you need products that can perform.
The new BaByliss PRO Advanced Ceramic Styler glides through hair quickly and with ease, leaving a high gloss shine on all hair types.
The fishtail is a two strand plait and is technically quite hard to master but a traditional three strand braid looks just as good as long as the finish is high gloss."
Scroll to bottom of page for behind-the-scenes video from Marios Schwab/BaByliss Pro
House of Holland and Sebastian Professional
The Team: Shay Dempsey Sebastian Professional's Global Creative Style Artist headed up the Sebastian Professional Design team and worked closely with Henry in the run-up to the show to create the key catwalk hair style.
He led a skilled and experienced session backstage team comprising of Sean Dawson and Dom Capel. Also in support were six members of the Sebastian Professional CULT team.
The Clothes: Down-town Harlem ghetto girl with a backing track of UK hip hop. With classic bandeau prints in subtle candy hues, on tactile cashmere wool, suede shearling 
and silk crepe.
The Hair: Sebastian Professional created stunning, bold hair styles to complement the collection, using NEW VOLUPT Spray, adding the edge to the show's look. Hair was ghetto with a soft, voluminous modern twist.
Shay Dempsey, Global Creative Stylist to Sebastian Professional created voluminous, playful ponytails placed high on the head and finished with pastel bandanas. Ponytails fell over the face covering one eye, adding a little coyness to the ghetto-chic style.
Create the look: Says Shay Dempsey: "Key products for this show were new VOLUPT Spray and Zero Gravity Hairspray. Hair was prepped using VOLUPT Spray from root to tip and then blow-dried with a paddle brush.
The spray's gel formulation builds volume into hair and keeps it there. A ponytail was formed to fall over the left eye, held as far as possible at the front of the head. To re-create the look, one the ponytail is secured, take three to four sections of hair and wrap them around big barrel tongs to create big waves and then back-brush the sections underneath that can't be seen to create volume.
Smooth over the surface with a Mason Pearson brush and form a point at the end of the ponytail. Finish with Zero Gravity Hairspray and for that gangsta edge just tie a ban dana around the ponytail."
Paris Fashion Week
Giles Paris and Toni & Guy
The Team: Paul Hanlon supported by the TONI&GUY Session Team using label.m Professional Haircare.
The Clothes: A muted palette of browns with sparks of orange and screen prints gave a subtle grown-up feel. From bulky leather hoods worn with tailored silhouettes, statement puffer jackets in metallic fabrics, to layers of cloud-shaped silk gowns.
The Hair: Vintage techniques met modern textures for a retro approach to bubble-shaped hair. French pleat roles worked into an anti-head shape, with detailing created at the front to add a tailored finish.
Create the look:
Load the hair with label.m Extra Strong Mousse and blast dry.
Starting at the front hair line, hair is backcombed away from the face, section by section throughout, to create serious volume with a dusty texture.
Hair padding is secured with pins from ear-to-ear across the back of the head and hair is swept back and wrapped around the shape, before manipulating into a French pleat. Hair is secured with grips into an anti-head shape.
An elastic band is placed Alice Band-style to create a 'mark' in the hair, using label.m Hairspray and heat to secure. Top tip - use a hair net to diffuse the heat and avoid the hairspray 'marking'.
Remove the elastic and visually pin to create the perfect bubble-shape and anti-head profile.
Final touch - a generous helping of label.m Hairspray to fix the look.
Milan Fashion Week
Anya Blumarine and Francesco Group
The Team: Anya Dellicompagni joined Eugene Souleiman and his team for the show
The Clothes: The AW '10 Blumarine show "Street Deluxe" featured a contemporary, urban variety of casual luxe shapes and the collection featured fringing.
The Hair: The Glunge hair look was both groomed and slightly dishevelled to continue the theme of playing with contrasts. Hair was wild and sexy and created a sense of movement on the catwalk.
Create the look: Start with freshly washed hair. Spray Wella Professionals High Hair Crystal Styler on to the roots then with a large round brush blow dry out from a centre parting to create moderate root volume.
Use SP Startup on the ends of the hair to hydrate and create shine. Take a large section of hair and weave a finger through this section so you retain 50% of the hair.
Use a large tong and work down the hair section to create loose curls. Once cooled, loosen the curls with hands so that they combine with the straighter hair to produce a textured, unstructured, wild look.
Watch behind-the-scenes footage from BaByliss Pro for Marios Schwab
