The Fat Jew (aka Josh Ostrovsky)—social-media provocateur and soon-to-debut “dad fashion” designer—is popping up everywhere in New York City this week. So, too, is his trademark radio-antenna coif: a spindly, vertically oriented ponytail sectioned off by rubber bands (as if in search of a taller profile among the legs-for-days models). Such skyscraping hair is very much in the air, it turns out, as seen backstage this afternoon at Thom Browne—a designer known for decidedly more highbrow, hyper-aestheticized theatrics. There, hairstylist Jimmy Paul was transforming models into antigravity Pippi Longstockings, with long braided pigtails reaching up like Gothic spires, tied off with the label’s dainty red, white, and blue ribbons. “The set is a playground or schoolhouse upside-down on the ceiling,” Paul explained of the inspiration behind the dangling-from-the-monkey-bars illusion.
To achieve the architectural effect, Paul relied on off-site prep work—and no small amount of floral wire. Using extensions in shades that matched models’ hair, he thoroughly teased each of the three sections and threaded in wire, weaving the strands into a “simple, simple schoolgirl braid with a dread-y look,” he said; each faux plait was then anchored to a small comb. Once on-site for the show, Paul slicked each model’s hair into super-high pigtails using generous mists of Bumble and Bumble’s Thickening Hairspray, slipped on the towering braids, and then wrapped their actual ponytails into loose clouds around each base. Of course, this being Thom Browne, the look didn’t end there. The already elaborate hair was capped off with a variety of open-topped hats—some diminutive, others wide-brimmed, still others veiled—which let the twin braids poke through like untamed weeds.
What to expect when The Fat Jew presents his debut collection on Wednesday? The sky’s the limit.
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