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June 9, 2008 10:34 am
When Camilla Staerk sent all the models at her Fall ‘08 show down the runway in head scarves, observers might have assumed that the gesture was an homage to the collection’s muse, sculptor Louise Nevelson. Not so. Stærk just really, really likes head scarves. “I wear one every day,” she says. “I probably have five or six ways of tying them that I like—one of which was the way Louise Nevelson wore her head scarf. Maybe that’s why I connected to her so instantly.” Though Stærk’s passion for scarves is seasonless, her Nevelson-style wrap makes for an elegant solution to summer hair woes. With the months of muggy hard upon us, she agreed to give Style.com a lesson in tying one on.
Step 1: Find the right scarf. Any silk too slick makes the tying difficult, so try to find a scarf in a matte silk, approximately 3 x 3 feet, or a little smaller.
Step 2: Make the first fold diagonally along the center of the scarf; folded in half, it should look like an isosceles triangle.
Step 3: Make a small, horizontal fold along the long side of the triangle and grab onto both ends.
Step 3: Lay the long side of the triangle over the top of the forehead with the open end of the fold away from the face. Knot the two ends of the long side at the back of the head, by the neck. (Take care not to catch the hanging end of the scarf in the knot.)
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