After my jaw dropped  last week at the beautiful Emma Stone on the red carpet in her beautiful plum Lanvin dress at the Golden Globes, it got me thinking (as a natural redhead myself) about the wonderful world of redheads in fashion. I’ve noticed that these days more and more women seem to be  turning to the bottle for a fix of the fiery hair colour, and i love it! Be it bright red, purply red or a proper auburn (ginger) Im loving the celebration of this hair colour. As to be honest with you, for  a long time it was and still can be perceived  as something similar to being disease ridden here in the UK (now thats obviously a little bit melodramatic, but i think you guys get what Im saying!) Throughout much of my younger years, I spent a lot of the time being embarrassed about my hair colour and teased for it and was often on the receiving end of chants such as “get back in your biscuit tin, ginger, ginger” and “knock knock, carrot top” on a daily basis; which now that I look back on, I can say with ease that I find these chants amusing, as I’ve always had a pretty decent sense of humour about the response that my hair colour gets. However, that sense of humour has only got stronger due to me growing up and learning that red hair is something to love and I’ve also learnt that actually, more people love it than they do hate it. So with this in mind, I wanted to take the chance to have a look at & celebrate some of the truly gorgeous women that I think, really make redheads rocking! Although… can you guess whose real and whose fake? 

An all time favourite faker of mine has got to be Julia Roberts, for years I thought that those coppery locks were au natural and was quite surprised when I found out they weren’t . Yet, however fake her fro may be, she’s a wonderful actress and even better, she looks great with red hair! Another actress whose famed for fakery is the gorgeous and marvellously curvaceous Christina Hendricks who is a firm favourite  of mine.  As a big fan of the television series Mad Men and all things vintage, it’ll be no surprise that she’s on my list of fierce females, due to her elegant style and the way in which she pulls of false colour. 

Now a favourite true redhead of mine, who planted herself firmly in the world of fashion and in my opinion made redheads ‘cool’ again in the nineties is the stunning, Karen Elson. With an edgy yet feminine style, Karen is a fashionable and fiery icon of mine, I just simply love her look! Another ultimate redhead who has undeniably been a fearless force within the world of fashion is the wonderful Vivienne Westwood, not only do I love her designs and work but I also love the fact that she too, enjoys being a strawberry blonde beauty!

So there you have it just some of my most adored redheads in the fashion world, yet these are only a few of my most loved fiery haired maidens, I could simply go on forever. So to stop myself from overloading you guys with redhead mania, I’ll just add a few more names to the list of whom I think we should all take a little inspiration from, be it the hair colour, the style or the statement; Florence Welch, Amy Adams, Isla Fisher, Julianne Moore, Marcia Cross and somewhat controversially David Bowie (I know, I know, he’s not a woman, but still gotta love him!) have all proven that redheads really do have more fun! 

Words by Ellis O’Gorman