Vidal Sassoon’s HighHair, Mimi – 1980
Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre
Do you know your hair history? Soft waves and curls rose above it all for cloud-like, romantic, dreamy looks in this HighHair version by A. Vernon Keach, Vidal Sassoon NY, in 1980.
“Hair will be high on top for the 80s,” predicted Vidal Sassoon, and it was. Hair had not been high for an era and HighHair, a new direction for Sassoon, influenced hairstyles world-wide in the 80s and beyond. Months of experimentation went into this Collection photographed with a surreal theme. The innovative cuts and perms were done with the clients heads upside down. There was not teasing. I invented the name HighHair, later much copied!
For full credits, how-to’s, more versions, anecdotes, go to HairThen, Vidal Sassoon, HighHair on www.helenoppenheim.com
Hair: A. VernonKeach, Vidal Sassoon, NY, 1980 … Perm: Allie Galizia and Edward Moore … Clouds: Ansell Adams … Art: Avram … Model: Mimi Young… Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre … Concept/Produced by Helen Oppenheim
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