Hair Trends with i-D Magazine
Beauty insiders on the hair styles that will dominate spring 2023
From Caroline Polachek’s halo bleach to animal print buzzcuts, this is your sign to try something new.
BY FRANKIE DUNN
We might still be in the throes of fashion week, but beauty stops for nobody and we’re forever seeking inspiration for our next hair era. Marc Jacobs' AW23 love letter to Vivienne Westwood was a good shout, all peroxide blonde pixie cuts and pops of pink; Marni’s bed hair looked refreshingly achievable; as did the slicked-back balletcore buns at Schiaparelli. Looking to broaden our options though, we asked around and called on some industry insiders — from the owner of a gender-neutral barbershop with locations across the US, to the East London-based Japanese hair stylist beloved by your fave pop girlies — to highlight the trends they love and recommend for the coming season.
Magda Ryczko & Sam Maynard, founder and barber at Hairrari, NYC & LA
Leading the way when it comes to gender-neutral barbershops is Hairrari, whose founder Magda Ryczko opened the brand’s first NYC shop all the way back in 2011. “The hair space was still very cookie-cutter in regards to gender and what styles were offered to who,” they explain. “We've been proudly breaking those rules ever since.” Known for their mullets, shags, creative buzzcuts and androgynous styles, they take an almost anti-fashion approach, instead looking to music for inspiration. Stylist and colourist at Hairrari’s LA outpost, Sam Maynard, seconds this, noting that they’re, “a bit of an outsider in the industry”.
Tell us about a style that you love right now.
Magda: Give me 80s glam rock, 60s mod and 70s everything. I love fun, messy, big hair and a lot of colour.
Sam: I’ve been doing a ton of patterns on buzz cuts — animal prints and flowers and stuff. Lately I’ve been really into using just bleach on natural hair to make the patterns. I just think it’s so punk to rock the raw bleached hair look — very DIY.
Would you say these trends are specific to particular places?
Magda: Every city has its own feel. We have locations in New York City, Portland and Los Angeles. New York has a very street style feel. It's cool and low-key. L.A. is bold and editorial. Portland is very art school, which we love.
Sam: I guess to some extent it’s very LA, very punk, very queer, to have these wild hairstyles. But I love seeing it in small conservative places. I remember seeing these kids in Ohio a couple of years ago with neon hair and I thought they were so badass. It’s really about self expression and that exists everywhere.
Where do you think the inspiration behind the trend comes from?
Magda: I think a lot of people are drawn to these old school rockstar looks not just aesthetically, but because of attitude. I love the gender-fluidity of a lot of these styles. I love the freedom that creates.
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