Throwback Hair Ideas From Your Favorite Decades

The sculpted front is a portmanteau of a 1950s pompadour and a victory roll—a 1940s style patriotically named in support of the armed forces during WWII (think: one of Gwen Stefani's oft-repeated retro looks, featuring an immense curl atop her head). Oribe Global Ambassador James Pecis emphasizes placing the rolls "to create a square shape, which gives this a more modern look." He blasted roots with dry shampoo "to catch baby hairs," then, after sectioning the top and sides into three distinct segments with elastics, twisted each part to create little bouffants, securing them with bobby pins.

Runway Inspiration: Brock Collection

Try: Oribe Gold Lust Dry Shampoo, $44; shop.nordstrom.com

Wella Global Creative Director Eugene Souleiman's bias- cropped wigs at Jeremy Scott were an homage to Vidal Sassoon. He blow-dried the hair with a round brush so that ends curved softly inward to frame the face, preventing the style from feeling too "geometric." Meanwhile, Garren, the cofounder of R+Co hair care, constructed the roughed-up beehives at Anna Sui—a collision of Amy Winehouse and '60s pop group the Shangri-Las—with a deluge of thickening spray, teasing top pieces "to a great height."

Runway Inspiration: Jeremy Scott; Anna Sui

Try: Varis Small Round Boar Brush, $24, beautycarechoices.com

Splashy customized hair ties, sideways hats, and single earrings all added up to a Tears for Fears–era extravaganza at Chanel. Hair honcho Sam McKnight positioned ponytails below the ear for a "nonchalant" vibe and tamed frizz with John Frieda Secret Weapon Touch-Up Crème. At Cushnie et Ochs, Moroccanoil Global Creative Ambassador Antonio Corral Calero employed a curling iron to give ends a swingy inward bend, an effect borrowed from Michelle Pfeiffer's drug-addled glamazon alter ego, Elvira, in the 1983 cult classic Scarface.

Runway Inspiration: Chanel; Cushnie et Ochs

Try: Chanel Hair Ties in styles
A89428 and A89419

The moodboard at Thakoon featured early-'90s ELLE covers (you know, the ones with the Amazonian models exuding sporty freshness). Hair expert Odile Gilbert doused the entire head with Kérastase Crème de la Crème for a wet look and scraped lengths up into a twisty chignon, allowing a lone front strand to coil alluringly into the model's face. At Alexander Wang, Redken Global Creative Director Guido Palau sprayed damp hair with Redken Fashion Waves, diffusing it halfway dry to create a "natty, gnarly" beach-bum texture.

Runway Inspiration: Thakoon; Alexander Wang

Try: Kérastase Crème de la Crème
Sumptuous Blow-Dry Control Cream, $37; kerastase-usa.com