Hair Royal Highness at Chanel

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The scene was a Chanel homecoming of sorts, a show that dramatised Coco Chanel's love of tweed, tartan and cashmere, played out in the courtyard of Linlithgow Palace, birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots. It gave it a real Elizabethan feel with ruffled necklines, doublet corsets and ballooning sleeves.

Sam McKnight added plaits up the back of the hair, serious height and jewels, including baroque headdresses, tartan thistle, camellia corsages and pheasant feathers to the models hair to create an Elizabethan feel. 

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I think that Chanel's Pre-Fall 2013 catwalk had lots of interpretations of the Elizabethan era. Sam McKnight created the hairstyles in a way that captured many aspects of the era including; red heads, pale skin, rouged cheeks, frizzy hair, beehives etc. When you look at photographs you can see that it has been influenced by the 16th century. Not many people bring royal history into their collections from that far back, but the Elizabethan era has become so iconic and recognisable in todays fashion that everybody seems to be doing it! There are so many interpretations of this era out there but there are so many new looks you can create by using the same techniques as they did in the 1500's.

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