{"id":863155,"date":"2025-09-10T19:35:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=863155"},"modified":"2025-09-10T19:35:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:35:32","slug":"katie-holmess-fishtail-braid-is-so-back-to-school-coded-see-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=863155","title":{"rendered":"Katie Holmes’s Fishtail Braid Is So Back-to-School Coded \u2014 See Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Katie Holmes’s Fishtail Braid Is So Back-to-School Coded<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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Finally, some realistic everyday hair inspo from a celeb.<\/div>\n
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By <\/span>Marci Robin<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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I’m not sure what it is about the combination of a turtleneck, jacket, and braid that sends me back to the excitement I used to feel about putting together back-to-school looks with my mom during my elementary school years. And that’s exactly what Katie Holmes<\/strong> delivered when she attended Veronica Beard’s Icons Party in New York City last night. Her look felt very grown-up schoolgirl. No, not in that<\/em> way. In the effortlessly sophisticated way we’ve come to expect from the actor and director.<\/p>\n

Holmes was spotted at the West Village’s Corner Bistro for the pre-Fashion-Week soir\u00e9e, which was also attended by fellow great-hair-havers like Natasha Lyonne, Nicole Ari Parker, and Karen Gillan. She wore wide-leg jeans with a black mock turtleneck and a cropped, navy jacket\u2014an absolutely ideal September outfit.<\/p>\n

But what really completes the start-of-fall feel is that low fishtail braid. The perfectly imperfect artsy-meets-preppy plait was secured with elastics at both the base and the ends, because who has time to do the whole hair-wrapping thing? This looks just as good!<\/p>\n

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OK, so, not everyone is a skilled self-braider, but hairstylist Tommy Bucket once gave Allure<\/em> some great tips on how to nail this relatively easy alternative to the typical braid: Name, pull sections from underneath<\/em> when you cross over to get that scaly look. You’ll want to use your index fingers to pull a half-inch section of hair from near the base of your ear and cross it over, and repeat from the other side.<\/p>\n

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So while it seems every celeb has been wearing the sleekest, takes-a-village buns I’ve ever seen (I’m looking at you, Hailey, Selena, and Lindsay), Holmes reminds us that a braid style we’ve dabbled in since childhood looks just as cool.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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More cool, casual celeb hair looks to try:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen Made Rare Appearances in the Most On-Brand Looks<\/li>\n
  • Zo\u00eb Kravitz Is Making a Strong Case for Wavy Bangs<\/li>\n
  • Nicole Kidman\u2019s On Vacation But Her Natural Curls Are Going to Work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    Now, watch Selena Gomez’s Allure<\/em> cover shoot:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Source URL: https:\/\/www.allure.com\/story\/katie-holmes-fishtail-braid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Laid-Back Braid Katie Holmes’s Fishtail Braid Is So Back-to-School Coded Finally, some realistic everyday hair inspo from a celeb. By Marci Robin September 10, 2025 Photo: Getty Images I’m not sure what it is about the combination of a turtleneck, jacket, and braid that sends me back to the excitement I used to feel about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":863162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-863155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-allure-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=863155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/863162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}