Paris fashion week: issey miyake

Eugene Souleiman created contrasting textures for the Issey Miyake Spring/Summer 2013 show at Paris Fashion Week.

Show: Issey Miyake

Stylist: Eugene Souleiman for Wella Professionals

The inspiration: Ethereal femininity 

The look: "Although this collection is rich in colour and prints, it was actually the movement of the clothes that caught my eye," said Eugene. "They seemed to literally bounce on the catwalk and I wanted to create a hair look with a spring-like buoyancy that captured  this movement." 

"The Issey Miyake collection is always brilliantly conceptual and although I wanted to complement this in the hair, I also wanted to bring in a sense of randomness, as if the hair had been styled by the elements; technical but with emotion" added Eugene Souleiman.

The finished hair look seemed to suggest that it was breaking free of restrictions, encompassing hard and soft textures with an ethereal femininity that was unique to each girl.

Get the look: Start with freshly washed and conditioned hair using Wella Professionals Enrich Shampoo and Conditioner.

Rough dry the hair and when completely dry, apply Wella Professionals Create Character to the roots and massage in with hands.

Dry the hair at the roots, using a vent brush to pick up the hair and pull away from the face.

Repeat this process all over the head using Wella Professionals Ocean Spritz, applying to the hair section by section until the hair is full of texture.

Using only your hands, pull the hair back in to a ponytail positioned in the middle of the back of the head.

Pull the ponytail back on itself and bind it to itself to form a very small bun. Pull the remaining ponytail down over the bun and thread elastic through the bun and secure the ponytail again. 

Split the remaining ponytail in two and divide each in to two again, then knot the two strands of hair together repeatedly then tie off.  

Apply Wella Professional Perfect Setting Blow Dry Lotion to the knotted sections and then apply heat first of all from a blow dryer and then secondly by clamping with hair irons.

Let these sections set, then carefully release the ponytail sections and brush through with a soft bristle brush to finish.

Key products: Wella Professionals Enrich Shampoo, Wella Professionals Enrich Conditioner, Wella Professionals Create Character, Wella Professionals Perfect Setting Blow Dry Lotion