“Hair Fit for the Oscars Article” – 2014
Collage: helenoppenheim.com
Thrilled Harold Leighton loves La Coupe hairstyles and photos from the ’60s to the ’90s on helenoppenheim.com for his 2014 article “Hair Fit for The Oscars” just published by The Epoch Times – both print and website versions. One boo-boo, boo hoo, but hope they can inspire all who need to be inspired even if some other good ones Harold loved even more weren’t selected!
Photos selected are The Frizzie Lizzie, 1967, Hair: Charles Booth, Photographer/Model: Unknown … Dancing Hair, 1986, inspired by Ginger Rogers in the 1935 movie Top Hat, Hair: Antonio da Costa Rocha, Model Marilyn Coe, Makeup: Honey Twigg, Photo: Geoffrey Hargrave Thomas, … The Drape Chignon with tiny frills by Kim Lepine, 1987, Makeup: Honey Twigg, Red Gown: Cathy Hardwick, Model Alayne/Zoli, Photo: Geoffrey Hargrave Thomas … Pageboy with rhinestone barrettes, 1993, Hair: Charles Booth, Makeup: Barbara Sansone, Photo: David Webber. All produced by Helen Oppenheim. More info, how-tos, go to HairThen, La Coupe, 60s, 80s, 90s on website.
To download the print PDF version of the article, click links below.
PDF of page 1 is:
http://epoch-archive.com/a1/en/us/nyc/2014/01-Jan/30/B01_EET_20140130-NY-US.pdf
PDF of page 2 is:
http://epoch-archive.com/a1/en/us/nyc/2014/01-Jan/30/B02_EET_20140130-NY-US.pdf
To see the web version of the Oscar article, click here.
CommentThe Frizzie Lizzie – 1967
Photo: Unknown
This 1967 photo of The Frizzie Lizzie inspired by glamorous ’30s hair was by Charles Booth for La Coupe in Montreal (before he opened in NYC.) The photo inspired Harold Leighton in 2014; he has written an article for The Epoque Times – “Hair Fit For The Oscars” which also shows more La Coupe photos from the ’70s to ’90s. We love the fact Harold and Epoque love our hair from the Archives on this website all these decades later. To read the online version of the article, click here. (Full page newspaper version to come.) For more on the Frizzie Lizzie and La Coupe’s ’60s hair, click
Hair: Charles Booth, La Coupe … Photo/Model: Unknown
CommentCool Half a Billion Dollar Hairdo – 2013
Collage: helenoppenheim.com
Harold Leighton sure knows how to work it. In 1970, while Creative Director at Harrods Beauty Salon in London, his hair was featured in an ad for Laurance Graff scattering jewels all over “The Million Dollar Hair Do.”
Cut to 2013. To celebrate his 60th year as Founder and Chairman, Graff has reproduced Leighton’s hair idea for an ad campaign featuring probably the most expensive hairdo ever – with a “cool half a billion dollars’ worth of Graff Diamonds.” The ad, featuring 22 of the best baubles is now running everywhere, like in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal Sunday Magazines, and on the cover of Leighton’s local magazine, Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach, Florida. See the 2013 photo right, the Leighton 1970 version top left, the current 2013 ad left center, the December 2013 Avenue Magazine cover bottom left.
To make your mouth water further, you can drool over the Graff Promotional Video for the half-billion dollar hairdo with the diamonds and jewels in big close up – click here
Photo 2013 … Hair: Eamon Hughes, Model: Dalia Gunther, Photo: David Slijper…
Jewels: Graff Diamonds
Photo 1970 … Hair: Harold Leighton, Photo: Vic Singh …
Jewels: Laurence Graff
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