"The Birds": The Unexpected Icon

The Unexpected Icon: "The Birds"


Clockwise from left: The Birds, Universal Studios/Handout - Getty, Bottega Veneta FW2011 - Gianni Pucci, GoRunway.com, Lulu Organics, Archive Photos/Stringer - Getty, Mason Pearson, Davines, Proenza Schouler SS2011 - GoRunway.com

The disheveled glamour of Tippi Hedren in Alfred Hitchcock's film "The Birds" is sort of undeniable. Even in the throes of widespread, unexplainable avian chaos, Hedren manages to look ladylike--if not a little tousled. But all for the better. This 1963 movie, based on a 1952 novella, depicts a series of violent, quasi-apocolyptic bird attacks on a small Californian town -- mostly targeted towards Hedren's character, Melanie Daniels.

This week we're channeling the slightly bedraggled-yet-elegant heroine of this eery, classic horror film, which reminds us of the coiffed beehives at Bottega Veneta this fall and the appealingly-undone hair at Proenza Schouler this past spring.

Click here to learn more about Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds"


Where to buy:

Davines No. 12 Cement Powder, $34, davines.com

Mason Pearson Tail Comb, $20, bigelowchemists.com

Lulu Organics Hair Powder, $30, luluorganics.com

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