When we at Modelinia say we care about models, we really mean it. We care so much we even saved one from having a potentially catastrophic wipeout backstage at Proenza Schouler.
Irina Kulikova was making her way from hair to makeup when the paper slippers from her recent pedicure caused her feet to fly out from under her. Standing right there, we lunged forward and broke her fall with our left arm basically hooking her whole torso. “Holy sh*t!” flew out in unison and the floor was blamed. “Wow! That’s bad,” Irina said as she then scurried off.
A flame-haired Rianne Ten Haken flipped through the international news section of The New York Times before moving onto a book in Dutch—the first of four languages she speaks. When asked what other reading materials she planned on tackling while backstage, she lifted a little blue envelope and said, “I have a letter to read next.”
There was ample reading time for the gals as Didier Malige of Frédéric Fekkai and his team of stylists curled, parted, and tousled the girls’ hair to create wavy, a-day-at-the-beach hair.
“The look we are going for is a little skater, beachy, and raw,” said stylist David Von Cannon. “We definitely don’t want it to look too done.” Von Cannon is also responsible for turning Anastasija Kondratjeva’s hair purple and Valeria Dmitrienko’s a teal-like hue.
Karmen Pedaru, who closed the show, was having her own grooming conundrum: She couldn’t remove the remnants of dark nail polish from her nails and took to the polish with a cuticle pusher. “It will not come off,” she said exasperatedly. Do we spy a perfectionist? ~ Alia Mansoori
