Is the Sleek Blowout Making a Comeback? New York Fashion Week’s Slick Hair Story

This week on runways from Chelsea to SoHo, hair was as slick as the ice coating Manhattan’s sidewalks. “It’s about perfection,” said hairstylist Eugene Souleiman backstage at Donna Karan, where he trimmed **Kendall Jenner’**s extensions into a sharp, straight line before misting the finished product with a shine-boosting hairspray to make it look, in his words, like it had been airbrushed. For both The Row’s collection of neutral car coats and Thakoon’s textural mélange of gilets and dresses, Odile Gilbert executed “old fashioned” blowouts that were as lustrous as they were luxurious—with not so much as a baby hair out of place. Over at Prabal Gurung, **Caroline Trentini’**s cascade of blonde shone as brightly as her blue sequined gown, thanks to **Paul Hanlon’**s deft use of a flat iron and mousse; and tonight at Narciso Rodriguez, the hairstylist put a twist on the concept by giving models a deep side part before combing hair flat and smooth across the crown. Here, a look at why you’ll be breaking out the blow-dryer and round brush this fall—and, possibly, ditching the downtown waves.