Hot Pink Hair! Printed Buzz Cuts! Punk is the New Pretty at London Fashion Week

The best accompaniment to a collection characterized by old school anarchy? Endless possibility as presented by buoyant parade of hair color, of course. Just days after Marc Jacobs sent a line-up of pastel above-neck confections down the runway, Matty Bovan took the trend to super-saturated levels, hairstylist Syd Hayes and colorist Josh Wood having created a series of cheeky manes perfectly matched to the show s layered ballgowns and exaggerated silhouettes.

The spectrum began with Mariana Zaragoza s lengths, hued an overdyed hot pink which Wood called "strong coral" and secured in a punkish bouffant. Next came Dree Hemingway, her buzz cut colored a similar shade of roseate, while Ariela Soares s cerulean updo offered a pop art counter to the navy iteration that followed. But the main event came courtesy of Finn Buchanan, who closed the show in a blonde buzz stamped all over with iconic Coach monogram in a clever mimicry of animal print—and a nod to Bovan s seasons-long collaboration with Stuart Vevers.

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Finn Buchanan backstage at Matty Bovan s Spring 2019 showPhoto: Courtesy of Katie Grand / @kegrand

“I think this could be the season where we see colors switching up and changing overnight," said Wood of vivid, of-the-moment aesthetic. "It’s a passion of mine to demonstrate “on-off” color that s there one night and gone in the morning.” With the Public Image Ltd kicking off a North American tour next month, and front man John Lyndon (formerly of the Sex Pistols) premiering a documentary about the group, it seems the rebellious lean that defined the early 80s has legs in the present tense. And for the style set? Considering Bovan s cadre of dipped-and-dyed models, punk may just be the new pretty.


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