Happy New Year With Bottoms Up – 2025
Wishing all my Blog Followers a Happy New Year with this 1975 photo called Bottoms Up which I art directed and fashion styled way back then. The hair, by La Coupe’s Kim Lepine for L’Oreal, was a classic one-length bob, angel curled with the bottoms up, just at the ends. The color was a gorgeous Mandarin shade, so new then it had to be flown into New York from Paris. To see the color and more versions as well as the whole collection, CLICK HERE.
Hair: Kim Lepine, La Coupe 1975 for L’Oreal … Makeup: Electa, Electa & Corrado …
Diamonds by the Yard Necklace: Elsa Peretti/Tiffany’s … Model: Paul Seigman
Fashion Styling: Helen Oppenheim …
Photo (Colorized from the original black and white, turned upside down): Klaus Lucka
Marcel Waves Return, Again – 2023
Photos: Serge Beauchemin, Lorraine Sylvestre, Helen Oppenheim
Hair Trend Alert – The New York Times published “Put a Crimp in It” article by Ruth La Ferla in the Style Section, April 18, 2023; Subheading – “Rihanna, Halle Berry and Zendaya are just a few of the high wattage stars to have revisited the Marcel wave.”
Yes, Waving Beauties with Marcel Waves are returning as salons and people are enjoying the good life again. The fashion forward are fed up with beachy waves and nothing hair. More groomed and interesting hair has started to appear on fashionable heads walking out of salons now, inspired by past eras like the Twenties and Thirties, again.
Photos here from a ‘70s HairThen album in my Archives which were inspired by past eras and updated then, still modern today, plus some photos I have taken backstage at New York Fashion Weeks when the hair was more groomed.
Top Left to Right : Détente Hair by Kim Lepine/Antonio Da Costa Rocha, La Coupe Montreal, Photos: Serge Beauchemin 1974…. Retro Modern Hair by Kim Lepine, Coupe, New York, Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre, 1992 Bottom Left to Right : Chic Faux Bob Hair: Paul Labreque, Paul Labrecque Salon,NY, Spring 2008 … Waving Beauty Hair by Marco Vogt for Grubenhelden, Fall 2019 … Romero Jennings, Mac Cosmetics wearing his signature look at the Frederick Anderson Show, Spring 2022.
To see more details and more inspo archived on the website, CLICK HERE and go to HairThen. To read the full New York article, CLICK HERE
Collage by helenoppenheim
La Coupe’s Great Gamine – 1977
Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre
Hair History. “This great gamine will survive all weathers,” said Kim Lepine, La Coupe’s International Design Director in 1977. Not only would it survive all weathers, it has survived for all of time, and is not dated at all decades after it was created. “The hair was cut using :”modern seventies’ cutting techniques to achieve the chewed effect of the fifties’ gamines but the difference was that La Coupe’s gamine wisps were precision cut and shaped to stay, cut into the shape by cutting on an angle to suit the face and working with the natural growth patterns of the hair.” The background is from a 1921 Harper’s Bazaar cover from Charles Spencer book by Erté For more on this gamine and other styles from this Collection, CLICK HERE
Hair: Kim Lepine, La Coupe, Montreal/New York, 1997 … Makeup: Electra & Corrado … Model: Guylaine… Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre
Concept/Produced/Fashion Styling: Helen Oppenheim
Femme Fatale Hair With Front Flicks – 1971
Photos: Klaus Lucka
Raphael, one of the greatest and sexiest hairdressers of all time, very famous in London and Europe in the 60s as the Raphael of Raphael & Leonard, launched a salon in Montreal with Femmes Fatales, featuring front flicks of hair, soft and romantic, very new then and inspirational now. For more on Raphael and more of his Femme Fatales, CLICK HERE
Hair: Ralphael Santarossa … Makeup: Jacques LaFleur … Model: Donna Clarke
Photos: Klaus Lucka. Produced by Helen Oppenheim.
Art Deco Hair Inspiration – 1974
Photos: Serge Beauchemin
Hair History, In 1974, the Art Deco Collection put La Coupe Salons on the map all over the world. Almost overnight. The most successful collection La Coupe probably ever did included not just the Deco Cuts and Styles but also a colorific “Shine-On” highlighting color idea which made almost every major magazine in New York, including a full page in Harper’s Bazaar. The Deco Cut here, by Charles Booth, featured cut- in waves with many angles, very accentuated, all fitting in, with the front the same length on one side, 1/4″ on the other and a very square back. For 23 photos with more versions and more Deco styles CLICK HERE
Hair: Charles Booth, La Coupe Montreal/NY … Makeup : Electa, Electa & Corrado … Long Black Leather Gloves: Iona Monohan Collection … Dress: Anne Klein … Deco T: Tania Vartan for Ruby-T … Model: Danielle … Mirror Graphic: Eric Neil Weiss … Photos: Serge Beauchemin.
Comment’70s Hair Flicks Flicking by Raphael – 1971
Photo: Klaus Lucka
Know your hair history. From the 1971 Femme Fatale Collection these flicks flicked softly and romantically, curled at the front of a bob. Hair by Raphael Santarossa, former partner of Raphael & Leonard in London, who married a Canadian and moved to Montreal, where this look was photographed. “A woman should be a woman, and I want to make her more woman, I love women and know to make them more so,” Raphael, perhaps the sexiest hairdresser ever, said at the time. Versions of these famous flicks made it internationally, it was such a flattering look, so new-looking then, easy to do, with the front left longer at the crown. And anyone could wear this look today – it has stood the test of time. To see more, CLICK HERE
Hair: Raphael Santarossa, 1971 … Makeup: Jacques LaFleur … Model: Donna Clarke
Photo: Klaus Lucka
Cadette Chignon – 1978
Photo: Larry Nichols
REMEMBERING ALL WHO SERVED ON THIS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
The Cadette Chignon was designed for an Armani fashion show in Toronto, by La Coupe, in 1978. It was worn with hair half up, half down, or all up. Jerome Pinsonneault, George Karkoulas and La Coupe’s staff made khaki-colored, satin-covered forms and the hair was tucked under, with an Armani medal added at the front. For more, HairThen, La Coupe, 70s, Hat Chignons on www.helen oppenheim.com
Hair: Jerome Pinsonneault, La Coupe, Toronto … Makeup: Stace Long … Blouse: Holt Renfrew …Model: Danielle Carbonneau … Photo: Larry Nichols …Produced by Helen Oppenheim
CommentUnruly Naturally Curly Hair With Wisps – 1977
Photo: © Lorraine Sylvestre
1977. This La Coupe photo made US Vogue. They probably loved the earrings as much as the unruly naturally curly hair of this star performer. There was a new-looking volume at the back and charming little wisps flirting on the forehead. The earrings were by Niky, an award-winning Jewelry Designer, who created the super modern spray to fit over the ear with assorted-sized diamonds on 18 carat gold. For more on this collection and more details on the hair, click HERE
Hair: Elmer Olsen, La Coupe, Montreal, 1977 … Makeup: Electa & Corrado … Model: Lillian De Freeze … Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre
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