Now that even Kate Moss is doing demented granny-hair, there’s no turning back:
(Okay, maybe there is, considering Moss has apparently already lost the touch of gray.) The ironic silver-haired-look is as old as time (well, as old as The Factory, anyway) but in the past few months it’s made a serious comeback. It’s appropriate only, apparently, if the gray in question is obviously artificial and unnatural – kind of like wearing SOS shoes or big-framed specs. Personally, I’m always reminded of Senta, the psychotic silver-haired protagonist of Ruth Rendell’s The Bridemaid, but that’s just me!
Obviously, this started with high fashion; elderhair was all over the Gareth Pugh and Giles Deacon runways, and the world followed. (This is Katie Shillingford.) It is particularly desirable to look like an aging, strung-out punk whose dye job is growing out and thinks CBGB’s is still a music club.
At Chanel.