Olympic Hair History – 1976
Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre
Olympic and hair history is here. Montreal’s controversial, futuristic Olympic Stadium was in the background and the model wore the 1976 T-shirt for the Games of the XXst Olympiad. This photo, which was published in US Vogue, a huge achievement, possible at the time, was part of the famous La Coupe Hair Olympics Collection produced early in 1976 for maximum impact, released to the press in good time to take advantage of the Olympic coverage. I loved producing hair collections with themes, and this was one of the most successful. This hair, by La Coupe’s Peter Green, made a point, which followed the natural growth of the hairline with very fine layering, so it would lay flat at all times, and very fine graduation at the back left the hair heavy behind the ears. Of course, one has to have the natural point to get the point! To see more versions of this and other styles of the era from the collection, click HERE
Hair: Peter Green, La Coupe, NY, 1976 … Model: Debbie McManus … Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre. Concept/Fashion Styling/Produced by Helen Oppenheim
CommentWishing US Olympians Wins in 2016 – 1976
Photos: Lorraine Sylvestre. Graphics: Georgine Strathy
The Olympic Games start Friday, August 5 in Brazil. Here’s wishing the USA teams success as imagined here for winners in photos from La Coupe’s 1976 Olympic Hair press release, early 1976, before the Montreal Olympics. I wrote that the girl on top might have been winning the 800 metres on a hot day, with a time of 1:58.2, beating West Germany’s Hildegard Falck’s 1972 record of 1:58.6. Our hero might win the 5,000 and 10,00 metres faster than Finland’s Lasse Virren. How times have changed! Both for the atheletes’ times and for the hair styles we would have made hair winners for La Coupe’s atheletes today. I sewed all the vests myself, added names, numbers, trimmings for La Coupe’s athletes, having trudged in sub-zero Montreal January weather to find the plain vests and all the additions. Talk about dedicated! More from this famous collection, click HERE
Top Hair: Charles Booth, La Coupe 1976 … Model: Debbie Keyes. Bottom Hair: Kim Lepine, La Coupe, 1976 … Model: Elmer Olsen. Graphics: George Strathy … Photos: Lorraine Sylvestre. Concept/Fashion Styling/Produced by Helen Oppenheim
CommentHair Olympics Remembered – 1976
Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre
As the 2016 Olympic Games start on Friday, August 5, 2016, I remember the 1976 Olympic Games held in Montreal and La Coupe’s Hair Olympics Collection. “I dreamed I was Mark Spitz and won my eighth gold medal,” I wrote for this photo which showed a wet-hair look. (For those who don’t know, Mark Spitz was the Michael Phelps of his era and had won seven gold medals at the Berlin Olympic Games 4 years earlier.) To see hair history and more of this famous campaign, released at the beginning of the year, in time for maximum press, which included one of the press photos published in US Vogue, check the album, click HERE
Hair: Kim Lepine, La Coupe, Montreal/NY … Medals: Olympic Coin Jewelry … Model: Elmer Olsen … Graphics: Georgine Strathy … Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre
Concept/Fashion Styling/Produced by Helen Oppenheim