Lucire fashion editor Samantha Hannah has the three finalists in Blue Cactus’s promotion, one of whom will take away an $8,000 prize package that we previewed last month.

Above, from top The venue at the Friedrichstadt Palast, Berlin. The Trio Style Nite team. On the stage. Below Trio creative director Reinhard Olschowsky.

While we did not attend Berlin Fashion Week, we did get some images courtesy of Trio Hair & Company.
   Last Friday, to conclude Berlin Fashion Week, Michalsky held his Style Nite.
   Michalsky did what he did best: be the showman. His autumn–winter 2010 show featured a stage-musical production on German history. Trio worked backstage on the hair.
   Trio also worked on the hair for Lala Berlin and Kaviar Gauche.

Check out this great promotion from Blue Cactus (in which we’re involved, too), where you can win an NZ$8,000 prize package, as explained by our fashion editor Samantha Hannah. If you have a friend who you’d love to makeover, you can nominate them for the Blue Cactus Hairdressing Ultimate Makeover, which includes NZ$1,950 of hair care from Blue Cactus, NZ$1,850 of products from L’Oréal Professionnel, NZ$1,482 of gym memberships from Exodus, NZ$500 to spend at Harry’s Designer Clothing Boutique, NZ$347 worth of deluxe accommodation package from Ohtel, and more.

At the end of last month, we covered a publicity stunt from BMW, where former Miss Bundesliga Sylvie van der Vaart put two BMW 3er convertibles, separated by 20 years, the hair test. Sitting in a wind tunnel, van der Vaart, arguably Germany’s and the Netherlands’ most famous WAG, had her hair blown about severely when sitting behind the wheel of the 1980s’ model. After having her make-up and hair redone, she got behind the wheel of a modern 3er Cabriolet where the wind, cranked up to 60 km/h barely affected her hair at all.
   Although we showed a summary video of the hair test, we have a few more clips from behind the scenes in north München.
   We begin with van der Vaart getting collected in the morning in a new 7er-Reihe saloon, and getting prepared for the shoot. There are some more sound bites from her on what she expects from the shoot, getting her hair done for the 2009-model test, and a brief interview with Thomas von Salomon, the photographer.

Former Miss Bundesliga and the Netherlands’ and Germany’s most famous WAG, Sylvie van der Vaart, puts the BMW convertible to the hair test in the company’s München wind tunnel. The full story is here on our website.

Alaskan David Walker has won the Supreme award at the Montana World of Wearable Art Awards (WOW), held Friday night at the TSB Bank Arena in Wellington, New Zealand.
   Walker’s Lady of the Wood, which takes the silhouette of an eighteenth- to nineteenth-century ball gown, but is made of mahogany, lacewood, maple and cedar, impressed the international judging panel, which included Oscar winner Richard Taylor and Taiwanese TV host Kevin Tsai.
   The model’s hair was made from pine wood.
   Speaking to Lucire after his win, Walker says that he was still feeling ‘numb’, with his victory having been ‘unimaginable’ to him.
   ‘My inspiration comes from the material and how to form it. I use that material in a way that it has never been used for,’ he says.
   The garment cost Walker $1,000 to ship to New Zealand.
   Walker takes home a prize worth NZ$10,000 plus an American Express-sponsored international travel prize and a Höglund Art Glass trophy.
   Earlier in the evening, Walker won the avant-garde section of the Awards.
   Now in its 21st year, the Montana World of Wearable Art Awards is an international event, with designers from 10 countries participating. This year, a record 39 entrants were from outside New Zealand.
   A full article on the annual event will appear in Lucire.

I gave Balliage (22 Brandon Street, Wellington 6011, New Zealand) a plug on telly a few years ago, and I think John Birnie and his team deserve another. This year, only Karen at Vanilla (also a fantastic salon) and various stylists at Balliage, principally Ahn-Tuan Dinh, have looked after my hair. Here are some of the shots from inside Balliage, which were sent to me late last year.

There are a few other salons I want to talk up, but you’ll have to look inside the print editions.

Above: The iconic image of Twiggy, aged 16 and weighing 90 lb, photographed by Barry Lategan in 1966.

It has been known that a book celebrating Twiggy’s 60th birthday, Twiggy: a Life in Photographs, will be published by the National Portrait Gallery this year, but only today has news emerged about the dates for an exhibition commemorating the event.
   The London Evening Standard reports that the exhibition will run from September 19 (Twiggy’s birthday) to March 24.
   Cecilia Joicey of the National Portrait Gallery says, ‘Twiggy has worked with leading portrait photographers from Cecil Beaton and Bert Stern in the 1960s to Steven Meisel in the 1990s and Annie Leibovitz in the 21st century, and combining these iconic images with her insights will provide a rare glimpse into the life of the world’s first supermodel.’
   The iconic photograph of Twiggy and her bob cut by Barry Lategan will be on display, as will more recent portraits by Bryan Adams and Sølve Sundsbø.
   Twiggy was born Lesley Hornby in London in 1949 and is married to the actor Leigh Lawson.