New Trend: Grey Hair on Young Style Setters
Posted on December 13, 2009
The Times Online examines this year's hottest trend for young style setters: grey hair. It all started with Pixie Geldof, who sported grey locks back at the Elle Style Awards in February. Since then the granny look has been picked by London socialites and club kids.
Yes, the colour wheel has finally twirled full circle. Growing numbers of women are no longer eschewing the very thought of grey, but embracing a gunmetal mane with pride -- and attitude. As Brownsell and the Teasdales prove, this is not only about silver foxettes going au naturel. This is a youth movement: from east London's cool set to models on the Paris catwalks, women are throwing the tonsorial rulebook out of the window and going with the grey. Even Victoria Beckham and Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs are getting in on the act by letting their own silver strands peep through.
Hilary Alexander of The Telegraph chatted with the celebs on the red carpet at the Elle Fashion Awards in North London back in February. She interviewed Pixie Geldof, just after her Italian Vogue covershoot. You can get a good look at Pixie's grey locks in a post on Pop Sugar. There's also a good photo of Pixie and her grey locks on the runway on Mirror.co.uk.
Trendsetting Pixie told the Times Online, "I'd been blonde for three years and fancied a change. I wasn't thinking about the colour, I just put on a bunch of toner one day, and there it was. It was rad. I didn't want to do another colour like pink, grey just seemed obvious."
This video from Real Simple says "going gray is beautiful." It also features 8 women that embraced their gray hair.