We fell in love with her as a mousey-haired Australian hippie in 2009. Outspoken, sexually ambiguous, pierced and dripping in tye dye. After a cavalcade of identikit, Nordic fembot models that populated the early years of post-millenium fashion, Australian Abbey Lee Kershaw was just what the industry had been hungering for. Instantaneously, she was swept along by the current of the international catwalk and later, transformed into a platinum blonde, Helmut Newton type of icon. She flourished. 

But one mustn't rest on her golden laurels. So now, for Abbey Lee's next trick, she's turned her hair raven black for Gucci's AW/13 campaign. Have you ever seen a better advert for saying, 'F*** it, let's dye it black', during your next trip to the salon? Every tiny bone in her face has found an entirely new light to bounce off, her topaz eyes are suddenly lit from within and - thanks to her barely-there bleached brows - black hair hasn't aged her, as it so often does (or, made her look like Morticia Addams).

So, could this mean that black is the new platinum blonde? Well, evidence certainly does appear to be pointing in that direction. It was only a matter of weeks ago that the ostensibly sensible girl with countryside (read: polo) leanings, Edie Campbell dyed her virginal, chestnut lengths a spiky black colour and chopped it all off in the process. 

The industry gasped. And then fell in love with it all the same. Not least, thanks to the painfully brilliant Jil Sander campaign images that managed to make Edie's punky cut look both very cool and delicately beautiful.

 Whether it's inky, ebony hair that you're sensing a magnetic pull too (I am, I am) or the dizzy heights of white-blonde, one thing is for certain: highlights are dead. Autumn hair is anything as long as it's extreme.