There have been clues that braids, these days, are for “big girls”—think Jemima Kirke in the first season of Girls, long-haired Lorde in her gothic-milkmaid mode, Sara Bareilles at the Grammys. The final proof that plaits are free from schoolgirl associations is offered by “Desert Flower,” the Western-themed portfolio shot by Mikael Jansson for _Vogue’_s February issue, featuring Russian stunner Sasha Pivovarova and costarring some mesmerizing fishtail braids by the ever-innovative hairstylist Eugene Souleiman. Today’s ideal braid is at once controlled and mussed, artfully natural in a way freckle-faced Pippi’s never were. Here, a peek at plaits—from French to fabulously fake (courtesy of Dynel)—in the Vogue Archive.
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