At Julie Kegels Spring 2027, one of the most curious details did not sit on the head at all.
It sat on the clothes.
A sleek black ponytail appeared neatly tied at the nape, but then the eye travelled down and found what looked like another ponytail attached directly to the back of the garment. Same dark hair. Same tied-off shape. Same unmistakable visual language.
Which immediately raises the question: did someone simply cut off a ponytail and sew it onto the top?
Probably not quite that literally. But visually, that is exactly the joke.
The Ponytail Leaves the Head
In the image, the actual hair is styled into a very clean, low ponytail. Then, hanging from the back of the brown top, is a second long hair-like tassel, positioned almost like an exaggerated continuation of the hairstyle.
It creates a strange little visual glitch.
For a second, you are not sure where the model’s hair ends and the garment begins.
And that feels very Julie Kegels.
The Belgian designer has already built a reputation for clothes that play tricks with perception. Previous collections have explored transformation, shadow, illusion and garments that seem to change identity as they move. She has spoken about wanting clothes to carry stories and about deliberately introducing humour, imperfection and visual misdirection into otherwise precise fashion.
So this hair detail does not feel random.
It feels like another little fashion magic trick.
Hair, Tassel or Second Self?
There are several ways to read it.
The simplest is that hair has been treated as surface decoration, almost like fringe. Fashion has spent years putting feathers, fur, crystals and fabric tassels onto clothing. Why not hair?
But there is also something slightly more surreal happening.
Because the piece mirrors the real ponytail above it, it starts to feel like a double. A shadow of the hairstyle. A second version of the wearer hanging from the clothes.
That idea would sit comfortably within Kegels’s existing interest in doubles, altered appearances and the gap between what we see and what is actually there. Her Fall 2026 collection, for example, explored aura, shadow and garments that changed how the wearer’s silhouette was perceived.
Could Hair on Clothes Actually Become a Trend?
Oddly enough, maybe.
Runway hair for Spring 2027 has already become much more experimental, with designers moving beyond the neat, invisible beauty styling that dominated recent seasons. Knots, exaggerated ponytails, extensions and more conceptual hair treatments have been appearing across fashion month.
Turning hair itself into a garment detail feels like the logical next step.
Would everyone want a ponytail hanging from the back of their shirt? Probably not.
But as an idea, it is fascinating because it blurs beauty and clothing completely. The hairstyle is no longer just styling for the look. It becomes part of the construction.
And that may be the most interesting thing here. Julie Kegels did not simply style a ponytail.
She made us wonder whether the ponytail belonged to the model or to the clothes.
