Backstage Confidential: Odile Gilbert, La Visionnaire

Genius hairstylist Odile Gilbert has been a staple backstage at fashion shows since her first with John Galliano in 1994. Anna Dysinger shadowed the Parisian-born star at New York Fashion Week to get her take on the season’s key beauty trends. Karlie Kloss glides into the backstage hair area 30 minutes before the Jason Wu show is scheduled to start. Odile Gilbert, the epitome of comfort in black stirrup leggings from The Row and black UGG Australia slippers, whisks the supermodel into a chair and begins methodically wrapping small sections of her hair around a curling iron, chatting away with the leggy beauty like an old friend. Gilbert’s hands move meticulously at a rapid-fire pace, but she notes that the loose, wavy hairstyle is much more arduous than an intricate updo. “It’s often more difficult because it’s simple,” she says. “Natural hair has more movement and is alive.” A throng of photographers, editors, bloggers and other camera-wielding media folk close in, eager for a money shot of the duo. A petite male photographer with three cameras slung around his neck aims and shoots, holding down the shutter-release button so his camera sounds like a machine gun. Gilbert gives him a threatening sideways

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