Vidal Sassoon’s Queue 1980
Photo (from laser copy) by Lorraine Sylvestre
Wishing the US Fencers at the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil good luck as they lunge, parry, and allez. Which brings to memory, the 1980 Vidal Sassoon Queue Collection, photographed with a fencing theme. The hair, not for actual fencing, was romantic, the shirts had frills and ruffles, very new that season, and short hair was made long in a flash, with one movement, for her and him, using an all-in-one hair ornament invented by Avram of the Vidal Sassoon New York Salon. More from the collection, click HERE
Her Hair: Avram, His Hair: Barbara Melser, Vidal Sassoon, NY, 1980 … Makeup: Ted Nadel … Models: Lynn Snowden and Avram … Photo (scan from a laser copy here, original lost) : Lorraine Sylvestre
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Photo (from a laser copy): Lorraine Sylvestre
There was a fencing and romantic theme to Vidal Sassoon’s 1980 Queue Collection. The hair was romantic, the shirts had frills and ruffles, very new that season. The Queue made short hair long, in a flash. For both him and her. The all-in-one hair ornament, invented by Avram of Vidal Sassoon, NY, included a brushed gold bow to cover the ponytail, clipped onto the hair in one simple movement.
For more on The Queue, and a great anecdote, click
Her Hair: Avram, His Hair: Barbara Melser, Vidal Sassoon, NY, 1980 … Makeup: Ted Nadel … Models: Lynn Snowden and Avram … Photo (scan from a laser copy here, original lost) : Lorraine Sylvestre
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Romantic Duel, hair by Barbara Melzer, Vidal Sassoon NY, 1980
6. There was a fencing and romantic theme to this campaign… went with the hair… the shirts had frills and ruffles, very new that season.
Her Hair: Avram, his hair: Barbara Melser, Vidal Sassoon, 1980
Makeup: Ted Nadel
Photo (scan from a laser copy here) : Lorraine Sylvestre
Produced by Helen Oppenheim
Anecdote: Avram later wore his ruffle shirt with a flowing black cape when we went to Venice and
Rome after a hair show for Llongueras in Barcelona, Spain. I remember he was a big sensation
everywhere and when we went to a trendy restaurant in Rome, the other customers actually put
down their knives and forks when we walked into the restaurant.
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