{"id":22461,"date":"2024-09-09T07:29:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T11:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/?p=22461"},"modified":"2025-02-13T09:40:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T14:40:25","slug":"from-brooklyn-to-the-runway-braids-steal-the-spotlight-at-fashion-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/from-brooklyn-to-the-runway-braids-steal-the-spotlight-at-fashion-week\/","title":{"rendered":"From Brooklyn to the Runway: Braids Steal the Spotlight at Fashion Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Brianna Robles<\/a><\/p>\n

Braids, beads, crimps and curls is the best way to describe the action that takes place at\u00a0Braided<\/a>, a Crown Heights hair salon specializing in braided hairstyles owned by celebrity braider\u00a0Xia Charles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During a recent visit, the salon\u00a0was filled with models as Charles and her stylists prepared for their\u00a0New York Fashion Week<\/a>\u00a0showcase,\u00a0The Darling Salon: Where Fashion + Hair Collide<\/em>\u00a0on Sept.\u00a06 at Manhattan’s\u00a0Lume Studios<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show is a collaboration between\u00a0Darling Hair<\/a>, a textured hair extension company,\u00a0Hype Hair<\/a>\u00a0magazine and\u00a0African Pride<\/a>, a Black-led natural hair care line. The show features clothing designs from\u00a0Joseph McRae<\/a>\u00a0and Hulu\u2019s\u00a0Dress My Tour<\/em>\u00a0winner, Keiandrea Daniels, also known as\u00a0K. Daniels Designs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The New York Fashion Week showcase, The Darling Salon: Where Fashion + Hair Collide runway show takes place on September 6 at Lume Studios in New York City<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The fashion show includes 18\u00a0models, nine\u00a0for each designer, according to Charles. Beforehand, Charles sat down with each designer to create a mood board for each of the looks. This way, the designers and hairstylists could know the theme and direction they wanted the styles to go.<\/p>\n

Some styles included traditional braiding techniques like cornrows and a three-strand braid, to braids that mimicked other hairstyles like finger waves.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to marry the hair with the clothes,\u201d explained Charles, the founder of Braided and head stylist.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, this is their time to shine, right? So, I didn’t want to overshadow rather than to compliment it, [I] just [want] to marry the two. I don’t want it to look like a hair show. I want braids to look like fashion because braids look like fashion,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t Charles\u2019 first NYFW showcase. In fact, alongside her various fashion week showcases, Charles has worked with popular icons like Cardi B and Beyonc\u00e9 for the\u00a0Black Is King<\/em> visual album.<\/p>\n

She attributes her love for braiding to her family while growing up. At an early age, while living in Trinidad and Tobago, Charles would lay on her grandmother\u2019s back to braid her hair\u2014 a skill she learned from her mother before she migrated to the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cXia and Braided have really been very critical to introducing Darling Hair to the U.S.,” explained Jazzmene Ford, senior brand manager at African Pride.\u00a0\u201cShe’s been a brand ambassador for Darling [since] we debuted it in America in 2021. She has been just a key part of pushing the brand messaging.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the fashion show, Charles hoped that the stylists at her store, many of whom she trained, would get the opportunity to experiment with the diversity of braids and participate in the show.<\/p>\n

Many of her stylists have never participated in a fashion show before, which makes this moment even more special for Charles.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s prideful,\u201d Charles explained when asked about her stylists’ progress.\u00a0\u201cA lot of them, how they start, they know how to braid it\u2026but it’s just like fine-tuning it. To see what they’re doing now, with little guidance from me, I would say\u00a0like they could show their creativity. It’s just a prideful feeling.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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