Here Come the Braids! Fake, Real and Hair Extensions

Here come the braids! Jessica Alba, Nicole Richie, Fergie, and Sienna Miller wear their hair in braids. So do Anne Hathaway, Mary-Kate Olsen, Scarlett Johansson and countless other celebrities. Braids were all over the runways in the Paris and New York fall fashion shows, they’re seen on the red carpet and all over downtown New York and LA, and they’ll be everywhere soon.

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Teddi Cranford, a stylist at Bumble & Bumble in New York told the New York Observer she was seeing a lot of braids in New York several months ago, but that L.A. is just now catching on. ?Hair kind of follows fashion,? she said, citing flowing, bohemian looks being sent down the runway by designers (many of whom have also featured braids, among them influential and decidedly non-bohemian Alexander Wang).

?There are a million different ways,? Ms. Cranford enthused of braids? permutations. ?When they get a cut, I?ll style them with a really natural blow-dry and then just do a cute little braid in the front, and it kind of spices things up a little bit. But I?ve seen women come in and they?ll get a big braid off to the side and then pin it back into a low chignon, a low bun, and then they?re going to put on their fancy dress and off they go!?