Big Hair Then 1975- Big Hair Now 2023
Photo Left: Serge Beauchemin. Runway Photo Right: Zigen
In 1975, Elmer Olsen of La Coupe Salons, then in Montreal and New York, created this big hair, crimped with the first use of a crimper in the modern age – a fifty year crimping machine found in his Grandmother’s attic. The Collection was called “Sleeper” and it started the crimped hair trend which is still happening.
Hair: Elmer Olsen, La Coupe … Makeup: Electa, Electa and Corrado … Fashion: Renato Balestra Couture Gown/Jacket, Holt Renfrew Canada … Model: Rudi Maciukas … Location: The Royal Suite, Chateau Champlain Hotel, Montreal … Photo: Serge Beachemin For more on the Collection, CLICK HERE
In 2023, Tadashi Harada created his big hair for the Hiroko Koshino Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo A/W 2023 Show – “A Magical Mystery Hiroko Tribe.”
Hair: Tadashi Harada … Makeup: Setsuko Suzuki … Runway Photo: Zigen
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Hiroko Koshino Rakuten Fashion Week – 2023
Photos: Zigen. Collage: helenoppenheim.com
The hair at the Hiroko Koshino Show in Tokyo for Fall/Winter 2023 was something else, as were the fashions – “A Magical Mystery Hiroko Tribe.” Loved both. Congratulations to the designer, a top Japanese fashion designer for over 60 years, with Paris exposure on her resume for having the vision to innovate from head to toe, and to Tadashi Harada, who created one fabulous themed big hair look after another, which made the exciting fashions even more exciting. The show was part of the Rakuten Fashion Week in Tokyo where innovative fashions walked the runways. The Spring Summer 2024 Rakuten Fashion Week Shows will take place in Tokyo August 28 to September 2, 2023.
Hair: Tadashi Harada (@Tadashi.harada) … Makeup: Setsuko Suzuki (@ssetsu) …Photos: Zigen (@zigen’1) courtesy Rakuten Fashion Week
CommentLuxury Unapologetic Hair To Wow – 2019
Photo: Richard Monsieurs
This is hair to make an entrance. It is OTT (Over The Top) with the help of hair extensions. It is “unapologetic hair” for those who want to be noticed. Imagine the look without the sweep of hair rising up to there at the front, and it is less OTT and still beautiful. Nominated for NAHA (The North American Hairstyling Awards) in 2019, it is by the Ulta Pro Team which includes Danielle Keasling who said ” I love a good luxury look and this is all that!!” Yes, it is. Wow!
Hair: The Ulta Pro Team … Hair Extensions: Great Lengths … Makeup: Deney Adam … Fashion Styling … Winde Rienstra … Model: Lyokatyagnereva … Photo: Richard Monsieurs for NAHA/PBA
CommentSpectacular Extravanganza Big Hair – 2017
Photo: Peter Nguyen
Peter Gray Big Hair from the spectacular “post-apocalyptic” extravaganza show he and his team put on at the Contessa Awards 2017 in Toronto. The WorldGreat hairstylist said at the time the show was all about super humans that are futuristic – not alien – beautiful and a little extravagant.” To see more Big Rolled amazing hair, more spectacular hair, and all about this show, CLICK HERE
Hair Creative Direction: Peter Gray … Products: Moroccanoi … Makeup: Wendy Rorong, Christina Nguyen … Tattoos: Shirley Lang, James Chia Han Lee … Stylist: Amber Watkins with Benjamin Doig … Designer: Greta Constantine … Accessories: Armed Jewelry … Model: Sarah Barnes, Plutino … Photo: Peter Nguyen
CommentBig Hair Accessorized with Fashion Savvy – 90s
Photos: © Helen Oppenheim
I took these photos in the early ’90s, backstage during a Susanne Bartsch spectacular at the Manhattan Center. Bartsch, Queen of the Night then and now, attracted top talents to this amazing event – like Orlando Piita, Oribe, Danilo and more. I am not sure who the gorgeous model is, who did the awesome big hair accessorized with fashion savvy but they are all great, aren’t they? I think, fashions were by Todd Oldham.
Hair, Makeup, Model: Unknown … Photos: © Helen Oppenheim
CommentChristie Brinkley by Harry King – 1983
Photo (Polaroid) : © Francesco Scavullo
Christie Brinkley, SuperModel, around 1983, big hair by Harry King. This scan is from a Polaroid. Mind you a Polaroid by a great photographer with great lighting, model and makeup. (I have books of polaroids, must take another look ! Back then, we took them before every new set up. Now, it is another story.) For more by WorldGreat Harry King, click and scroll.
Hair: Harry King …. Makeup: Way Bandy … Photo (Polaroid) : © Francesco Scavullo
CommentWild Hair. Peter Gray. I.D. Sølve Sundsbø – 2008
Photo: © Sølve Sundsbø
Wild, big, fab fantastic hair by WorldGreat Peter Gray for I.D. Magazine. Photographed by the amazing Sølve Sundsbø. Fun, fun, fun, fun. For more Peter Gray, and Sølve Sundsbø, click here
Hair: Peter Gray … Photo: © Sølve Sundsbø for I.D. Magazine
CommentPeter Gray for Elle Magazine – 2013
Photos: © Txema Yeste
Two photos from an editorial by WorldGreat Peter Gray for Elle Magazine in 2013. Love the big hair, the shapes, the feeling for these marvelous modern looks for black and very curly hair by a hairdresser who is into hair with style and fashion, something we have to wish more editorial hairdressers would try harder to be able to do. Not always easy when it comes to editorial hair but sometimes something wonderful happens, as here. For more Peter Gray Editorials, click
Hair: Peter Gray, Home Agency … Makeup: Cyndle Komarovski … Manicure: Gina Edwards … Model: Tian Yi … Fashion Stylist: Lori Goldstein for Elle Magazine … Photos: © Txema Yeste
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