Elizabethan Contemporary Hairstyles / Inspiration for my Design

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I really like this image because I have decided that I want to create a fashion themed final design with a slight Gothic edge. The colour of the hair in the image is a red, which in the 16th century was classed as fashionable, but not exactly the red that the Elizabethans would have had. The Elizabethans would have one for a more natural red/ginger colour but this is modern because the red is not a natural red but a dyed deep red almost purple toned colour that is fashionable today.  I like the use of the netting at the front because it looks like a caul which would normally be positioned at the back of the head in the 16th century and fashioned with pearls. But continuing with a modern theme it is turned to the front of the head. The shape of this hair also fascinated me as well because it is curled and frizzed as well as backcombed. It has the center parting and there is two padded sections just like a a heart shaped hairstyle often worn in the Elizabethan times. 

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This image caught my eye because of the length, colour and crimp technique used. If you look closely they have also included a plaits and twists down the right side of the head.  This certainly interested me again because of the Gothic feel coming from it. This hair style looks like it was achieved with hair pieces, crimping, frizzing and possibly padding. The frizzing as been left and brushed out to create height and texture and a 'zigzag' shape. The colour of this hair is a dirty blonde colour which has different shades of blonde running through it, this seems very Elizabethan because they used to bleach their hair to get it lighter. I like the hair piece added to this style because it seems darker and different to what the Elizabethans would have used like jewels and gems, they still used feathers but in a different way to the stylist has for this shoot. 

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This image got my attention because I really want to try a big extravagant hair style for my final design. The Elizabethans had bigger hair the more upper class 

they were and I think as I want to explore a royal theme to my design and creating the biggest hair possible will be fun to try and achieve. I believe this style was created with the whole head being crimped leaving a section at the front all the way around the head. The crimped section is then styled with some sort of padding and the front section is back combed and the smoothed over the top. I think this look, also has a Gothic feel about it, like a Halloween/supernatural look. The colour is also good because Elizabethans liked lighter locks. 

Contemporary Hair Styles Research

Contemporary Hairstyles in Fashion, Television and Music.

http://beautyhigh.com/chanel-prefall-2013-hair-heights/

Chanel pre-fall collection 2013, Hair stylist Sam Mcknight took inspiration for this look from the Elizabethan period with the height of the style, crimping, backcombing, curls and braids. As well as using modern day hair pieces which had the same extravagant look as the hair adornments used in the Elizabethan period.

http://www.vogue.com/slideshow/858545/chanel-pre-fall-2013-runway/#27

http://stylewithstylebabe.com/2013/02/28/crown-royal-fab-videowith-mfw-dolce-gabbana-fw-2013-collection/

Dolce and Gabbana Milan fashion week Autumn/Winter 2013.

With the central parting in the hair and crowns this takes inspiration from Elizabethan style.

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Video sourced from youtube.com Dolce and Gabbana Milan Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2013

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Beyonce portrays a queen in her O2 advert as she is known as 'Queen B'. This has Elizabethan references in this advert because of her hair. This is because it features Elizabethan techniques like crimping, frizzing and padding. Also the colour of the hair is very Elizabethan as the blonde and lighter hair was preferred in the 16th century. To make this contemporary they positioned it on the side of the head instead of in the middle which I think goes very well with the accessories such as the crown and the fashion styling. She also has a zig zag look falling down by her ears, which Queen Elizabeth I used to wear all the time which is shown through her portraiture. 

http://reign-cw.wikia.com/wiki/Season_One

'Reign' is a non-factual television show spin on the Tudor/Elizabethan 16th century. It is deliberately a modern/contemporary interpretation of this time period to be understandable to its target audience of teens.It has modern fashions, modern hair, modern make up and slightly modern story lines with a supernatural theme included in it. 

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Reign has incorporated plaits into a lot of their hairstyles which were used widely in the Elizabethan times. The one thing that stood out to me with the hair styling was the use of hair accessories. This was very fashionable in the 16th century with jems, pearls and jewels. Headbands encrusted with diamonds as well and I believe the hair and fashion department had thought about this when deciding how to create each character their look. 

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The hairstylist, Dana Kalder designs are very modern and she seems to have a theme of the hair pretty much always being down where as in the Elizabethan times they would pretty much always have it up. I like her take on this because I think it matches the supernatural theme of the show and keeping the show contemporary and high fashion. 

Project Brief and Elizabethan Hair

Red Heads and Royalty





The ‘Redheads and Royalty’ brief focuses upon collating historical research and technical observations of the hairstyles used in the Elizabethan era. You may begin by considering the hairstyles you have identified in paintings from the Elizabethan era, but also consider that they various hairstyles and hair colours used by Elizabethan women with references to their age, class and status.

You are required to create a variety of historically accurate Elizabethan hairstyles in class, you are also going to create a more contemporary version using clear references to a style of Elizabethan hair you are inspired by. Develop the project by referencing contemporary versions of Elizabethan hairstyles – do this by looking through newspapers, magazines and websites. Gather visual evidence that references Elizabethan hair and begin to consider how you may adapt it to a contemporary style.

Elizabethan Hairstyles

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Elizabethan hairstyles were mostly big, extravagant looks. They were mostly made out of techniques such as curling, frizzing, crimping as well as using hair pieces and padding to achieve them. The major style icon of the time was called Elizabeth I. She eventually lost all of her hair due to lead poison so turned to using wigs which could be styled even more extravagantly.  They really liked to accessorize and use different things depending on class and social status.

Caul: Is an Elizabethan hair net which could be a full covered piece of material or netting customized with pearls or other jewels.   

Atifet: This was a type of french hood, favored by Mary queen of Scots. Normally finished with lace trimming and pearls. 

French Hood: This is a headband which may have had a veil attached to the back of it. Adorned with pearls and glass beads.

The Pillbox hat: rounded type of hat, may have had a veil attached and decorated to match clothes. 

Coif: Often wore by the lower class Elizabethans but could be customized with jewels and adornments. 

http://designsfromtime.deviantart.com/art/Elizabethan-Costume-Atifet-Heart-Shaped-Headdress-452243033

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/139400550938693717/

http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-hats-women.htm

http://www.thetudorswiki.com/page/The+Tudors+Costumes+%3A+Women's+Dress

http://www.theknightshop.co.uk/catalog/renaissance-ladies-renaissance-clothing-c-470_477_622.html

http://www.verymerryseamstress.com/hats.htm