Basket-woven hair

Here's a bizarre-but-striking couture moment: basket-woven hair.

“There were many permutations,” Palau said to Style.com of the technique, “but in the end it was highly technical yet very simple.” Palau divided models’ hair into three sections before adding extensions over and under natural strands for a woven effect, ending each panel in a skinny braid. Back panels were folded flat against the head and pinned in place before the entire head was sprayed with Redken’s Forceful 23 hair spray. Sixty bottles of hairspray were used to hold everything in place!

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60 cans o’spray = ?? models?

I’m guessing 12 models. Let’s start a pool!
- awjt
  
  1 can of Cabot polyurethane would have been more cost-effective.
Over the River

This woman has a beautiful classic profile.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  The whole thing screams Italian Renaissance.
  - Christhegirl
    
    I thought it screamed Janice Rand, but yours is better.
  - awjt
    
    It all screams Flexi-girl to me… how in the hell did she get her hand stuck back there like that?
  - rattypilgrim
    
    The model sure has a Renaissance profile, hairstyle-wise though, the women of the Renaissance were into waves and curls and whisps. This hairdo is rustic (basket weave) and 20th century hard edged angles at the same time. It seems odd this idea hasn’t appeared until now. Seems like a no-brainer when you think about it, if that isn’t an oxymoron.
  - niktemadur
    
    Although it would probably get me locked up in a Vatican dungeon, oh, to whisper sweet nothings in her ear, such as “Four celestial bodies revolve around Jupiter, yet none as resplendent as thee”, or “Pythagorean geometry cannot account for the motions of the heavens, nor thine fair visage”.
  - Over the River
    
    I was also thinking A Young Woman Reading by Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard
    - niktemadur
      
      I love Fragonard. Can you tell the difference between @Antinous_Moderator:disqus picture post and your own? There’s like an opium threshold between the two. I mean paintings, not posts.
      - Over the River
        
        I have always been in love with the girl reading. It seems there is a difference in nationality between the two subjects.
bolamig

Oh, the humanity.
BombBlastLightingWaltz

Wiggy-wig?

Basket-case for sure.

Enterprising none the less. Good show.
rattypilgrim

The next step is to use something other than hair extensions in the weave. A material that would be a stark contrast to human hair would be fun. If you used fleece (real or synthetic) your hair could become a hat in the winter e.g.
EH

I used to see tons of net-weave hairdos in the style books at my extremely non-stylish haircutter in the early 80s. They weren’t as ratty as these (apologies if it’s intentional rattiness).
- CH
  
  I assume it’s intentional rattiness, but yeah. A “messy” type of hair do can look really nice, but they seemed to have gone for “ugly” in the way they finished off that do. And 60 cans of hair spray? How on earth did they need that much????
  
  I’ve seen a lot of basket weaving hair styles for children’s hair-dos, like this one: http://www.princesshairstyles.com/2011/11/basket-weave-hairstyle-design-by.html
  All of them really super nice looking… unlike the one in the picture above.
  - rattypilgrim
    
    This basket weave is lots less uptight and more romantic than the ones on your link.
    
    60 cans of hair spray is an insult to the planet, not to mention everyone in the room who had to breathe that air. I wonder why the hair dresser needed to use that much. I think I read somewhere sugar water was used before hairspray was invented.
  - EH
    
    The ones I’m remembering are more like macrame visors and such. Very open weave.
emo hex

It’s simply waffle!
purple-stater

It is a cool look, but extensions? That’s no more impressive than wearing a wig.
voiceinthedistance

Sixty bottles of hairspray? Please explain . . .
lsamsa

Are breathing masks provided for the model & the stylist?
What amount of shampoo…or whatever…is required to remove ‘sixty cans of hairspray’ residue from this woman’s hair?
jackie31337

I saw some similar styles in the style book at the hairdresser recently. Those seemed to use the model’s own hair, though: the woven section was on the back of the head, and the rest of the model’s long hair hung down. I wish I could remember the name of the salon/stylist.
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Almost competes with the Kazon(sic?) bird-nest hairstyle from ST:Voyager!