Coveting: Chanel Couture Hair

While in the midst and thick of Mardi Gras, I can’t help but start mentally planning for other festivities this year– my birthday, Halloween, New Year’s Eve, and, of course, the random nights it is just fun to dress up.

Since moving back to New Orleans, I haven’t actually found the time to play at one of my favorite shops in the city: Fifi Mahoney’s. And in case you haven’t noticed, I like wigs a LOT.  Going in to a place like Fifi’s is a bit like stepping in to the Willy Wonka factory, and it’s not an occasion to be taken lightly.  I can’t go in without buying something– and so it seems best to just not go in, rather than buying another wig that’ll be difficult to incorporate in to my wardrobe.

Thanks to the wonders of Fashion Week… I’ve discovered my reason to go in, to get a piece made I’m passionate and enthused about…

The inspiration?  Chanel’s Couture Show, S/S 2010….

(via Jak and Jil)

(images via Style.com)

For a while I’d been wanting a Marie Antoinette style wig, but one that was built out of more realistic, natural looking hair (ala Kirsten Dunst in Marie Antoinette). That being said, a wig of that style is fairly limited in its uses.  I love the Chanel hair because while it has this slight reference to Marie Antoinette styling with the height, the volume, and the shape, it’s more modern, it’s more playful.  I love the heart shape from behind and how the adornments following through the back spine, and I love the natural hair color with slightly unnatural streaks.  Most of all, I love the many outfits I can see myself pairing a wig like this with…. antique Victorian dolls, Marie Antionette, steampunk pieces, bloomers and corsets, Lolita skirts, black doll lips…

Now the biggest problem is deciding what hair color and what accent colors…