This was Senior Beauty Editor Celia Ellenbgerg’s take on the work of Lim’s long time collaborator Odile Gilbert:

«And the hair vacillated between too soft and too sleek, until Lim actually took out a pen and marker and drew the shape he was after. “I don’t speak the language [of beauty], so sometimes the only way to get there is to paint a picture.”

Gilbert won Lim over with a texturized updo that she prepped with Kérastase Mousse Substantive and then fashioned into a curled-under faux bob on one side with a long, sleek section hanging down in the back—for the short term at least. When we arrived backstage at Lim’s show yesterday, he asked her to change the look one last time. “I had to do all 42 girls in 45 minutes,” she exclaimed after the presentation. Magic, indeed.»

We live in a time when if you want to experience social unrest you don’t have to look back into social movements of the past, you just have to look outside your window. That was they kind of vibe the stylist of Phillip Lim wanted to create for this runway.

Phillip Lim has always had a tendency of being inspired by those outside the mainstream, so for his latest collection he turned to the young british punk of the 60s and early 70s. 

Suedehead counter-culture was an offshoot of the skinhead movement. They had a lot of similarities but their style was a little different: they grew their hair longer (grown-out crops with simple side parts) and they dressed more formally than skinheads.