Hair portraits

Tableaux

One piece, worn many ways across braids, locs, coils, and curls. A portrait series celebrating Black beauty in its many forms, textures, and expressions.

Black woman wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment across a natural Afro

Afro / Rivière standard

La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment styled on an Afro

Afro / Rivière standard

Black bride wearing La Rivière pearl hair adornment with an Afro slicked-back hairstyle

Afro sleeked back / Rivière standard

Front portrait of a Black bride wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment with an Afro slicked-back hairstyle

Afro sleeked back / Rivière standard

Side profile of a Black bride wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment with a natural hair high bun

Afro high bun / Riviere standard

Three-quarter portrait of a Black bride wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment with a natural hair high bun

Afro high bun / Riviere standard

Black bride wearing La Rivière pearl hair adornment with a sleek bun hairstyle

Bun on straight hair / Riviere standard (2)

Back view of a Black bride wearing La Rivière pearl hair adornment over a sleek bun

Bun on straight hair / Riviere standard (2)

Side profile of a Black bride wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment over a sleek bun

Bun on straight hair / Riviere standard (2)

Black bride wearing La Rivière pearl hair adornment with a natural Afro ponytail

Afro Ponytail / Rivière standard

Close-up of La Rivière Standard pearl bridal hair adornment cascading through a natural Afro ponytail

Afro Ponytail / Rivière standard

Black bride wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment across cornrow braids

Cornrows / Riviere Standard

Three-quarter portrait of a Black bride wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment across cornrow braids

Cornrows / Riviere Standard

Front portrait of a Black bride wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment across cornrow braids

Cornrows / Riviere Standard

Side profile of a Black bride wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment across cornrow braids

Cornrows / Riviere Standard

Back profile of a Black bride wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment with a cornrow bun

Cornrow bun / Riviere Standard

Back view of a Black bride wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment with a cornrow bun

Cornrow bun / Riviere Standard

Black bride wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment with a sleek wavy ponytail

Wavy ponytail / Riviere Standard

Side profile of a Black bride wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment with a sleek wavy ponytail

Wavy ponytail / Riviere Standard

Close-up of La Rivière Standard pearl bridal hair adornment cascading over a sleek wavy ponytail

Wavy ponytail / Riviere Standard

Side profile of a Black woman wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment with a natural curly ponytail

Curly ponytail / Riviere standard

Three-quarter portrait of a Black woman wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment with a natural curly ponytail

Curly ponytail / Riviere standard

Three-quarter portrait of a Black woman wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment with a natural curly ponytail

Curly bun / Riviere standard

Side portrait of a Black bride wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment with a natural curly bun

Curly bun / Riviere standard

Front portrait of a Black bride wearing La Rivière Small pearl hair adornment over long kinky-straight natural hair

Kinky straight hair / Riviere small

La Rivière Small pearl bridal hair adornment styled on long kinky-straight natural hair

Kinky straight hair / Riviere small

Side portrait of a Black bride wearing La Rivière Small pearl hair adornment over long kinky-straight natural hair

Kinky straight hair / Riviere small

Close-up portrait of a Black bride wearing La Rivière Small pearl hair adornment over kinky-straight natural hair

Kinky straight hair / Riviere small

Black bride wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment with a loc bun hairstyle

Bun on locs / Riviere standard

Three-quarter portrait of a Black bride wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment with a loc bun hairstyle

Bun on locs / Riviere standard

Black woman wearing La Rivière Small pearl hair adornment with box braids styled in a high ponytail

Ponytail on braids / Riviere small

Three-quarter portrait of a Black woman wearing La Rivière Small pearl hair adornment with box braids in a high ponytail

Ponytail on braids / Riviere small

Black woman wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment across long loose box braids

Braids / Riviere standard

Black woman wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment across a box braid bob hairstyle

Bob on Braids / Riviere standard

Side profile of a Black woman wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment across a box braid bob hairstyle

Bob on Braids / Riviere standard

Side profile of a Black woman wearing La Rivière Standard pearl hair adornment across long loose locs

Locs / Riviere standard

LA RIVIÈre

Our first piece, and the one from which everything else begins.

A cascade of pearls is strung on a dark filament as fine as a single strand of hair, designed to recede into black and brown hair so the pearls appear to float across it like light moving over water.

Created for Afro-heritage hair from the very first thread, La Rivière is built around movement, adaptability, and ease. Its dark, hair-fine filament recedes naturally into black and brown hair, allowing the pearls to hold the eye as the piece travels through braids, locs, coils, curls, wigs, weaves, and sleek styles.

Light enough to move almost unnoticed and striking enough to command a room, it moves naturally from one expression to the next.