Guido Palau on Blunt Cuts and Excessive Haircut Traits in 2020

“Once I was Zooming Kaia [Gerber] and doing her hair pink, she mentioned to me, ‘It is 2020. Hair, what does it matter?'” hairstylist Guido Palau casually tells me, effectively, over Zoom. 

In contrast to our ordinary interviews over the previous 4 years, we aren’t standing in the one free house backstage to talk concerning the search for he put collectively for no matter New York Style Week present is about to occur. This time, Palau is sitting comfortably in a Paris lodge room whereas I am in my Brooklyn condo. Though I am nonetheless working from house, the British hairstylist is again to working hands-on with fashions — with private protecting tools, after all. Security measures did not stifle Palau’s creativity at Paris and Milan’s Style Weeks, although. He is nonetheless a fan of pre-show haircuts (as we have seen through the years at Marc Jacobs and Miu Miu). If something, this yr’s chaos has incited a theme amongst Palau’s Style Month seems: blunt cuts. 

Younger folks, like Gerber, are spinning 2020’s bedlam into magnificence gold, if you’ll, and Palau is taking notes. They’re looking for extremes, particularly for hair with drastic haircuts, vibrant colours, amplified textures, and enjoyable braids, he says. All assist them have fun their very own concepts of magnificence whereas shaping magnificence tendencies. Sure, Palau believes younger folks at the moment are inspiring the runways as a substitute of the opposite manner round. “What you see in a present is a mirrored image of how younger persons are wanting,” Palau provides. 

The stylist shares he minimize a mannequin’s hair two days earlier than Valentino’s present, which featured Bettie Web page-like blunt bangs, and he or she ended up recutting her hair in between. “She mentioned, ‘I all the time tweak my very own hair. I am sorry,'” Palau recollects. I might be terrified to face him — a preeminent hairstylist within the business — if I did so, however Palau wasn’t offended. He welcomed the adjustment and appreciated she made his work her personal. An image of her even lives on his Instagram now.