Bangs have been one thing of a focus on the males’s exhibits in Milan over the past week, with hair shorn excessive above the eyebrows into child bangs at Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana, or styled into swooping side-parts at Fendi. Probably the most seductive hair of the season to date, nonetheless, got here by way of JW Anderson.

For the autumn 24 runway present, the reliably subversive designer heated the boys’s schedule up with a set impressed by Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 film Eyes Huge Shut. As Jonathan Anderson informed Vogue’s Luke Leitch, it was “the sexiest we’ve ever gone.” This was clear within the sternum-baring cardigans and thigh-smothering tights, naturally, but in addition within the bedhead bangs: Ruffled up and slept-in, they caught sweatily to foreheads or dangled throughout the forehead.

For British hairstylist Anthony Turner, who created the appears to be like for the present, the deliberately grubby fringes have been a riff on Tom Cruise’s easily slicked hair within the erotic thriller, however drew out extra of the chaos mendacity beneath. “We deconstructed it as if it was as soon as neat however now wilder,” he informed Vogue. A gappy, greasy-looking fringe may be the bane of any bang-bearer’s life, however Turner leaned into it. “The impression it provides, I hope, is that even one thing that’s taboo can look actually cool.”

Reaching the look by blowdrying the fashions’ hair into neat and tidy facet partings, Turner then purposefully destroyed them, tousling out any sense of perfection into one thing subtly corrupted. “Actually within the line up because the boys have been strolling out I spritzed them with water and pulled the form aside,” he mentioned. “It made for some very completely happy accidents!”

It was additionally a intelligent extension of the studied seediness of the remainder of the gathering. Had been these bangs that had simply come out of a post-coital bathe? Or perhaps they have been the results of a steamy night time below the sheets? “It’s enjoyable and attractive, and felt proper to do one thing that isn’t so correct,” defined Turner. “Why is the hair like this? What’s occurred? It’s all open to interpretation.”