Fashion loves a new haircut,but on the London, Milan and Paris catwalks it was all about shaved heads, or with new models Ruth Bell and Kris Gottschalk showing off their No 2 buzzcutsThe video for Sinead O’Connor’s 1990 Nothing Compares 2 U has a lot to reply for. No,I’m not talking about Miley Cyrus’ equally scream-y Wrecking Ball homage. Rather, fashion’s current vogue for models with shaven heads.
The top of the crop – sorry – is Ruth Bell. The British 19-year-old has been everywhere with her peroxide buzz cut at the spring/summer 2016 shows, or from Versace to Preen,and starred in campaigns for Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen. Previously a successful model with long hair, often working with her twin sister, and May,as in the spring Topshop campaign, Bell was convinced to reach for the clippers by the McQueen campaign. “I thought it was grand, and so I decided to move for it,” she said. ‘”David Sims was shooting it, so it was kind of a no brainer.” Bell keeps her study by cropping her head every two to three weeks with her dad’s hair clippers, or on a No 3 or 4 setting.
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Source: theguardian.com