PEABODY — Local hairstylist Stephanie Agneta packed her bags and flew to Paris on Saturday with the plan to display her work at Paris Fashion Week. Unfortunately, Agneta didn’t make it to the fashion week runway. “I’m really disappointed about what happened,” she said.
“It was definitely the craziest thing I’ve ever experienced,” Agneta said. “The worst part of it was that I should have never left Logan Airport.” Her passport was invalid because it was flagged at the airport in France as lost or stolen, she said.
“‘You’re being deported,’ Agneta recalls being told by an officer. “I immediately started crying.” She was then placed in a holding cell — “gray concrete room with a glass door” — for seven to eight hours before traveling home, she said.
Agneta had been one of three stylists asked to create a piece of avant-garde work — experimental and wearable — for a model on the runway at Paris Fashion Week. She was planning to accompany the model wearing her artwork as they walked down the runway together. “I never thought I would get to do something like that,” she said.
She said she built the hair piece with hot glue, pipe cleaners and synthetic hair, all in two days. “It’s like a big hair crown.” It is inspired by singer/songwriter Melanie Martinez’s style.
Whether you find her at Salon CC or see pictures of her walking down the runway next to a model at Paris Fashion Week, Agneta has a smile on her face. Despite the set.
