Solid Gold @ The Brooklyn Museum – 2025
Photos Courtesy Edward Tricomi, Warren Tricomi. Collage helenoppenheim.com
Edward Tricomi’s heads shimmered at The Brooklyn Museum’s Solid Gold Exhibition, a dazzling gold mine featuring all that glitters with 500 works tracing the metal that has influenced cultures and legacies worldwide. The Exhibition runs through July 6, 2025 and is supported by Bank of America and Dior.
The Tricomi hair is equal to all the creativity in the exhibition dedicated to the element.
Hair: Edward Tricomi, Warren Tricomi … Makeup: Sady Linter … Makeup courtesy Pat McGrath Labs … Manicurist: Casey Herman … Wardrobe: Albright NYC … Models: Isabella Diana, Kuta Joal, Yang Xiaoyang … Photos: Courtesy Edward Tricomi
Brooklyn Museum: Solid Gold
Edward Tricomi website
Adam Lister Art @ Graphic Serendipity Show
Adam Lister “Lady with a Pikachu” 2024 (acrylic on canvas 30 x 24″)
This brilliant work of art is “Lady with a Pikachu” by Adam Lister. It can be viewed at the “Graphic Serendipity” exhibition January 16 (through February 8th, 2025) at the GR Gallery, 255 Bowery, near Houston Street in NYC.
The exhibition features the artworks of three artists – Adam Lister, Gavin Lynch and Jiri Mayer and takes inspiration from the “Cybernetic Serendipity” groundbreaking event in London, which was the first exhibition to demonstrate all aspects of computer-aided creative activity in 1968, then toured across the United States. GR Gallery say this 2025 exhibition “focuses on the mechanical sense as a new manner in art, seeking to explore how digital sensibilities are integrated into contemporary painting through the unique perspectives of the three artists.”
Lister’s pixelated pop art paintings, inspired by recognizable famous paintings, are in the spirit of cubism. Regarding the process for “Lady with a Pikachu” Lister says he “first made a loose sketch of the original subject on the canvas, then I went through to breakdown the initial drawing through a sort of reductive process. I draw over my first sketch, turning all curved and diagonal lines into horizontal or vertical lines., Then, I begin the painting process. Using acrylic paint, I fill in one shape at a time, gradually building up the blocks of color. With this piece, I painted the background first, then the figure of the Lady, then the Pikachu. I sample the colors from the original subject, while also using a palette that slightly varies across the surface of each field. For example the yellow of Pikachu is actually made up of different blocks of 4 different shades of yellow.”
This colorific Lister work of art can be viewed as a modern interpretation for today – and beyond.
Adam Lister, “Lady with a Pikachu 2024
(after “Lady with Ermine” by Leonardo da Vinci 1489)
Keep Warm Fashions For Frigid Days – 2025
Photos: Helen Oppenheim and Courtesy Vera Wang. Collage helenoppenheim.com
Wrap up with fur, best if fake, for the frigid days ahead. Get inspired with fashion blasts from the past because Baby, It’s Cold Outside.
These harsh weather Nicholas K inspirations are for urban warriors of both sexes, from their Fall/Winter 2014 New York Fashion Week Collection, which included this fake fur hood and fur headwraps. To see more of the keep warm fashions with an edge CLICK HERE
Hair: Jon Reyman for Aveda … Makeup: Lauren Anderson for Avon
Photos: Helen Oppenheim
Vera Wang’s multicolored fab fur coats, with colorful designs like works of art. are oversized, roomy, from the designer’s stunning Fall/Winter 2016 New York Fashion Week Collection. To see the hair and more from the collection, CLICK HERE
Hair: Paul Hanlon using Pai-Shau … Makeup: Lucia Pieroni,Cie de Peau Beaute … Photos; Courtesy Vera Wang
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Holiday Hair Inspo Part 2 – 2024
Full Credits Archived on Website helenoppenheim.com
More hair inspo from then, all still inspirational today. These Stories appeared or will appear on my Instagram page @HelenOppenheim, just for 24 hours. They highlight some of the over 6,000 photos archived on this website (helenoppenheim.com) and they will be there to inspire you forever. All with full credits Some with how-to’s, all by the top talents of the hair, makeup, fashion worlds, photographed by top beauty talents, and me, mostly backstage at New York Fashion Weeks.
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NYFW Backstage Hair Moment – 2004
Photo: Helen Oppenheim
A New York Fashion Week backstage hair moment. Love this. Polly Mellen, the famous former fashion editor of Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Creative Director at Allure, and Edward Tricomi co-owner Warren-Tricomi Salons having a hair moment which also affected the model at the Douglas Hannant NYFW 2004 show. Are you sure, Mellen seems to be saying? No one seems sure, except the hairdresser, who ended up doing a great job, as always. This scene is a testament to confidence, patience, experience and a lot of caring and how it is not easy to do the hair for a fashion show at this level. This is one of the few photos I have digitalized, so far, from the shows I photographed on film in the early 2000’s. I have a lot of great photos only on film.
Photo: Helen Oppenheim
RIP Polly Mellen. 1924-2024. She great fashion editor has passed away, at 100 years old.
CommentHoliday Hair Inspo Then & Now – 2024
Full Credits Archived on Website helenoppenheim.com
Some hair inspo from then still inspirational today, as the Stories appeared on my Instagram page(@HelenOppenheim) for 24 hours. These are just some of the over 6,000 photos which are archived on this website (helenoppenheim.com) – all with full credits there. Stay tuned for more on my Instagram and Helen’s Blog.
CommentRIP Trevor Sorbie, Hair Legend – 2024
Trevor Sorbie Hair Photos – Collage helenoppenheim.com
Trevor Sorbie, MBE, Award-Winning Hair Legend, Icon Like No Other, passed away at 75 years old – 1949-2024. The hair world has lost one of the greatest ever. His work was beyond amazing. In my archives – somewhere in a closet jam-packed with fantastic hair images from all over the world – I have a lot of his early press releases, with some of his great innovations. Here are just a few.
Top Row: Here is how I remember Trevor Sorbie. With me, in 1996. at an industry event. I used to publish his extraordinary pioneering work in articles for many magazines and admired him and his work tremendously. Around this time, he called me and asked me to do PR for him/his products in America. I had just left John Sahag and never wanted to do PR again (!) so told him he’d have to persuade me. He replied something like, you will have to persuade me. And that was that! On the right, is Sorbie’s famous Waves of Stone, The Sphinx, 1989.
Bottom Row: The Wedge, 1974 by Sorbie when he was with Vidal Sassoon and Flames 1992.
More on trevorsorbie.com … Instagram: @trevorsorbie … facebook.com/TrevorSorbie/
CommentDear Kamala. Your Hair Needs Help.
Photos with thanks to ABC-TV and MSNBC TV
Dear Kamala
Your hair. It needs some help, It can look better than it does. It really can.
With a slightly different haircut. With different long layers. In the right places. Which can help the style, the shape, fall into place. Then styling it with the right tools and hair products is also key.
The aim should be that your hair should not only look good most of the time but it should also be low maintenance for you because you won’t have the time, and shouldn’t have to spend the time needed, for a high maintenance look.
You probably like the long flowing look but you may want to also bear in mind that a simple long bob, with the right long layers, in the right places, could make your life easier. It isn’t the only look which could work, but it is the easiest to maintain, and worth some serious thought.
I know there are challenges. Maybe Keratin, or whatever you use takes up important time. But with the right hairdresser and the serious communication between you, you can save spending too much time with your hairstyling every day – and still look good all the time. Well, most of it!
From a fan, who wishes you good luck. With respect.
~Helen
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