Edie Campbell’s Latest Hair Transformation at Bottega Veneta! Why Fashion Loves Her Ever-Changing Color Story

 

 Yes, there was that knockout opening look at Bottega Veneta—a highly desirable, imminently wearable printed number that promises to become a favorite Saturday standby in any woman’s closet. But when the lights came up at Tomas Maier’s fall 2015 collection, all we could think was this: Edie Campbell has changed her hair again! The English model is fashion’s most fearless beauty chameleon, volleying between a punkish black crop and a bleached-out blonde bowl in recent seasons. After going dark once again to open the Hugo Boss show in New York (and debuting a graphic new set of bangs there on the runway), she swung by colorist Victoria Hunter’s Whittemore House Salon once more before flying out—this time dying her hair a slightly more gingery shade of ashe.

 Representing a new breed of thoroughly original It model, Campbell’s electric presence on the runway has always had less to do with hair color than with a cult of personality—and the refreshing sense that she does what she wants, when she wants, and only to please herself. It’s a spirit that’s resonating with designers in Milan this season, who seem more interested in sending out a cast of real characters than an assembly line of identical-looking girls. “Tomas was very much thinking of individuals,” said Guido Palau of the designer’s request to style each girl slightly differently, according to her natural texture, which he was heightening using a range of Redken products. “If a girl had curly hair, we left it curly, if [she] looked great with her hair back, we put it in a messy knot. Some girls got haircuts, too,” he said of giving four models—including Esmeralda Seay Reynolds—freshly shorn, pillowy bangs. How did they decide who got fringe? “It was whoever said ‘yes,’ ” he admitted with a laugh. Now that’s the supermodel-in-training spirit.