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Five Minutes with Odile Gilbert

The French hairstylist takes a break from backstage primping to share her favorite products and more.


Odile Gilbert

What’s in your purse? Caudalie lip balm and Alaia perfume. I love it. It’s very powdery.

What’s your earliest beauty memory? Taking baths. When I was a kid, I had to have everything in the bathroom with me: music (the Beatles, of course), books, my pets, food, and chocolate. It was very Marie Antoinette.

What was your worst beauty mistake? Getting a body wave when I was about 16 or 17. They used the tiniest rollers on my baby fine hair—it was awful. My hair looked like a duster and there was nothing I could do.

What is your beauty pet peeve? Too much plastic surgery. My friends and I go for drinks at the Beverly Hills Hotel and watch all the people walk through. Everyone looks so fake, and it’s so weird to me that they don’t see it! I don’t mind plastic surgery, but it has to be good. It can’t be obvious.

What are you currently obsessed with? Spas. It could be Ayurvedic, could be in Brittany. I love going to spas and getting great massages. I usually go in winter, when it’s dark, and I stay one week minimum. And food. Good food. I love Japanese. My favorite Japanese restaurant in New York is Ayana on Thompson Street, but I also love Balthazar, Saint Ambroes, Petite Cocotte, and The Mercer. The Mercer has the best truffle pizza. Food is very important to me. I’m French!

Backstage at Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

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Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

Rodarte Spring 2016

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