KEVIN.MURPHY Takes on Paris Fashion Week

Hair Director and KEVIN.MURPHY Pro Ambassador Eugene Souleiman are taking over fashion weeks around the world with breath-taking, fashion-forward hairstyles. Here we cover two A/W shows, Caroline Hu and Stella McCartney. A Dark Romance in Motion: KEVIN.MURPHY Backstage at Caroline Hu AW26 For the Autumn/Winter 2026 presentation of Reverie by Caroline Hu, Eugene Souleiman created a sculptural hair look that balanced fragility with drama, echoing the emotional world of the collection. Drawing inspiration from memory, softness, and the passage of time, Hu’s designs explored garments shaped by wear and sentiment — textiles built layer by layer into surfaces that appear delicate yet deeply considered. Souleiman translated this narrative into hair that felt both romantic and unsettling, refined yet raw, as though caught between beauty and disarray. “For me it’s about doing something that is kind of ethereal but also with a bit of drama to it,” says Souleiman. “I want it to look like she’s been chased through a haunted forest by a shadow she doesn’t understand but she knows it’s not good for her and she needs to get away.” The resulting silhouette was towering and abstract, designed to appear fragile and slightly undone — as though it could fall …