Head Games

With Halloween less than a week away, CC can’t help but post some of the costume-y runway looks of late. Today’s focus is the fantastical headdress. Even if you wouldn’t wear these feathered fripperies to the club, perhaps they can inform your Marie Antoinette costume?
At right, Daphne Guinness, courtesy Paul Pincus.
At left: a plumed headdress at Chanel.
Comme des Garçons' cottony pouf. Runway pics courtesy style.com except where noted.
John Galliano (at right and next three, below)


Gloria Swanson, photographed by Edward Steichen for Vanity Fair, 1924.
Junya Watanabe cornucopias, via nytimes.com.
CC loves Hussein Chalayan’s angular net headdresses!
Photo trio courtesy zimbio.com.

At Ralph Lauren’s Spring 2009 show, the turban was all the raj!

Tulips & Pansies: The Headdress Affair to benefit Village Care of New York in May 2008.

These three photos via fashionwiredaily.com.

CC leaves you on this somewhat dreary Saturday with a gorgeous, inspired collage by Fellow Fashionista Neon Stilettos.

HEAD GAMES

The options are limitless for crown adornment these days. While Mary-Kate Olsen was lambasted for wearing the Marc Jacobs Jazzercise-inspired headband pictured above in a recent W Magazine spread, she was ahead of the fashion curve and should be applauded! Below, HEADGEAR REDUX:

THE TIARA: overused by brides, pageant winners, and royalty; underused by the rest of us! Would that we could get our hands on the fabulous pieces worn at the recent Chanel Couture show (runway detail photo at right courtesy style.com)!

HEADBAND: the Stacey Lapidus three-row crystal band (above left) is very Blair Waldorf - try it! Go to http://staceylapidus.com/insideha1.cfm. Couture Carrie also enjoy the SATC-ified the Jane Tran flower/feather version, pictured at left.

WRAP: whether DIY or J. Crew "no-hassle" (pictured at right and available in a variety of preppy patterns at jcrew.com), the headscarf is an excellent summer solution, whether your problem is overheating, frizz, or chemically-treated, sun-phobic tresses.