“Che nobody thinks I’m one stupid, empty and useless influencer: I’m a business genius“. He believes it to the point of jail Anna Sorokin, for all Delvey, fake socialite and the same false German heiress arrived (actually, in 2017) one step away from obtaining a millionaire loan from an American bank without a shadow of a guarantee, without a past, without a reason. Who cares about the chasms of debt between hotels, restaurants, luxury shopping, a stolen jet, a $ 60,000 weekend paid with a friend’s Visa: Anna, the real one, in prison for four years, is the appearance that wins over reality, in person.
“I don’t really look like her at all,” he points out Julia Garner, actress-clone called to take on the shoes, – Alaia, Valentino & co – of Sorokin in “Inveting Anna“, series Netfix by Shonda Rhimes released on 11 February and for days in trend topic.
The reconstruction of the image of the real Anna goes through a careful research of styling, but also through a not negligible detail: a hair that is as transformative as she is.
Anna Delvey Sorokin, new red hair icon “red money”
Anna Delvey’s Hair Transformation – aka Julia Garner in “Inventig Anna2 (Netflix)
Interesting, in the path of construction of the fake identity but above all in the mad rush to the project of the art club “Delvey Foundation”, the aesthetics that accompanies Annain particular the hair color, that changes with her following the refinement of the scam until the ruinous fall.
Anna arrives in New York boasting a trust fund of millions blocked in Europe by her father, very blond. Platinum, vanilla, a total and dazzling blond, from the roots (look that’s that regular of actress Julia Garner, and which, on the other hand, marries her moon skin better. There is a though. Why doesn’t anyone take it seriously? For the young age? Why too inexperienced? Because it’s a Barbie. A cliché.
From blond Barbie to red “50 Euro”, the reason for Anna’s hair
In her, shrewd as a fox, the strategy “anti Marilyn “. Self Norma Jeane must cancel the anonymous brown to be able to emerge as the blondest star in Hollywood, Anna understands that if she wants to be taken seriously, from the vamp aesthetics he has to move away. She is a financial genius with smoky European origins, and her look should immediately tell it too. Isn’t that what women expect their hair to do? Speak without words.
Transformation Moment: Julia Garner aka Anna Sorokin in “Inventing Anna” (Netflix)
And yes dyes alone, in the bathroom of the umpteenth hotel where she is a guest without paying a shadow of account, choosing a very difficult shade. The Red. Tiziano soft, strictly cold, with an ash undertone, so that it marries best with diaphanous skin. A bright, warm red would be a disaster of contrasts. But the red “50 euro” is perfect, and what ever goes well with the goal: to collect.
The operation it would take at least two hours from a good hairstylist, but that’s a detail. Covering bleached hair is not a bath operation: it is essential to reintroduce the hot pigments into the shaft with a pre-coloring, and then refine the undertones of the final nuance in a second step. Switch of blonde to brown shot often brings green or muddy highlights as a gift. But not to Anna.
He does so right at the dawn of the meeting with the lawyer who will plead his project to non-existent guarantees with the main banks of the city. When the money is in sight, the hairstling fits.
The “red heads” of history, on the other hand, are archetypes: the bewitching Guildthe fatal Jessica Rabbitthe elusive Satine-Kidman in Moulin Rouge. How to resist the lure of a bewitching mermaid hair (in fact, what color was Ariel Disney?).
The charm of expensive red
The intuition is of costume designer Lyn Paolo, which has reconstructed the looks of the real Sorokin down to the smallest detail. And she has asked for help from Julia Garner’s trusted hairstylist, Bobby Eliot, linked to The Wall Group between Los Angeles and New York. Specializing in blondes, he customized the red twist of his favorite client.
The styling is flawless, a Hollywood-style shiny waves, always with a slight volume at the roots, at most pinned in ladylike collected seeds. The light red and coppery shades, from coppery all’auburn, have been in great trend since last autumn: thanks to Anna, the turning point of spring 2022 is served. Prove in fact the elegance and portability of the nuance, but above all the innate elegance that it communicates.
To the collapse, in “brown mouse”
On the set they took turns three teams of hairstylistseach for each stage of Anna’s story, so that the hair had three totally different moods along the miniseries. Towards the end, the reflex titian turns to ashesmore and more greyish, as the company straps and the fraud comes to the surface.
Deluxe reflexes go out, the shiny finish becomes frizzy, neglected. Anna goes out, even in the hairstyle. But for the $ 350,000 he came his affairs to Netflix for, something to shine again, he’s sure to come up with.
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