A NEW York hairstylist has flown 16,000km to Melbourne to tend to the short tresses of star client Paris Hilton for designer Wayne Cooper’s fetish-themed show tonight.

The Herald Sun has learned the elder Hilton sister called the Sydney designer and asked if she could be in his Mercedes Australian Fashion Week autumn/winter fashion parade tonight.

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