Fashion: A Haughty Year

Depending on which foreign film actress was in vogue, U.S. women over the past few years have tangled their hair until it swelled out to blimp proportions or plastered it down on their skulls as if it were Saran Wrap. Now hair is headed in the only remaining direction: up, up, up. Last week Saks Fifth Avenue Hair Stylist Adrian, the personally trained protége of Saks's famed Antoine, offered the U.S. the look that topped this summer's Paris collections—swirling, soaring swatches of hair that take off into the sky like the aftermath of atomic attack. Unlike wigs, which cover...