New York fashion week A/W 2011 coverage

New York fashion week A/W 2011 coverage

What must it be like to stand on a podium for hours, in naught but a bra and knickers, having dozens of people crowding around you, staring, filming, taking pictures? Odds are most of us will never have to find out, but the girls at The Lake and Stars' fall 2011 lingerie presentation, shown during New York fashion week, are likely to be well familiar with the feeling. This shot shows little of the lingerie, but rather captures a quiet moment on the podium.

 

Russian beauty Kristy Kaurova was looking perfectly polished when we snapped her outside the tents of New York fashion week.

 

Renato Campora's hands move quickly; and in mere seconds a model walks away with a side ponytail of perfect barrel curls. We're backstage at the New York fashion week American Express presents CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Cardmember Only Show and Renato, lead stylist for Frederick Fekkai, is making the night's softly glamorous hairstyle look almost too easy to create.

The desired effect, Renato explains, is a look that's both young and effortless, but also sexy - with a deep side-part that frames the face, and the hair swept aside at the back showing off the nape of the neck, a sensual body part Renato reminds us.

Below you can find some how-to instructions of how to recreate this hairstyle for yourself, along with photos from backstage of the Frederick Fekkai team at work.