Attendees of Marc Jacobs autumn/winter 2023 show had (far) less than the usual amount of time to register the beauty references that coloured the evening’s storytelling — that by design, of course. Lucky for us, the centre-separated, fried-meets-frizzed chops — the work of hairstylist Duffy — shouted their message, one in keeping with the show’s fast-paced format.
As noted by Vogue Runway’s Nicole Phelps in her review, the cadre of bowled shags that fluffed and bobbed down Jacobs’s 29-look runway called to mind 1982’s ever-iconic Blade Runner, or more specifically replicant Pris, played by Daryl Hannah. Rather than a simple nod to an ’80s-imagined future, though, the hair teamed with the show’s expedited format and AI-penned show notes (thank, Chat GPT!) to posit that a time of replicants and blink-and-you’ll-miss-it creative communication has already arrived.
Are wolf cuts and stylised mullets destined for a crisped, crimped evolution? The answer is likely no — but as the present continues to merge with a sort of future previously resigned to our imaginations, we must admit that anything is possible at this point.
