Graham Wren Vidal Sassoon 70s/80s RIP
Photosa; Unknown and Lorraine Sylvestre.Collage helenoppenheim.com
Graham Wren, RIP. This very special man and talent will be missed. He was International Art Director, Vidal Sassoon, based in New York and without him, all the great work in North America from 1979-1981 would not have happened Here are just a few of his hairstyles, from 1979 and 1981, not his usual hairstyles but all lovely and. innovative at the time
Top Row: Graham Wren, late 70s. 1. Modern Marlene from the Soft Cubism Collection, 1979, inspired by Marlene Dietrich in the 1931 movie “Dishonoured”, Photo Unknown.
2. Crimped up/down look from the HighHair Collection, 1980. Makeup Ted Nadal, Model: Danielle,
Photo Lorraine Sylvestre
Bottom Row: 3. From the P-P-Puff Collection, 1981. Makeup: Mariella Smith-Masters,
Model Kay Romero, Photo Lorraine Sylvestre.
4. Gold Lamé Rags set the Kay Romero P-P-Puff left. Photo Lorraine Sylvestre
5. The P-P-Puff, a soft sexy look, Makeup: Mariella Smith-Masters, Model: Danielle,
Photo Lorraine Sylvestre
To see more Graham Wren work and more late ’70s/early ’80s inspo, go to HairThen on
this website, Vidal Sassoon.
Happy Happy New Year – 2023
Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre
Wishing all my Blog followers a very happy happy New Year and all the very best for 2023 with this “Loop-de-Loop” stunning hair look for drop dead entrances, by Avram of Vidal Sassoon New York, in 1980. This was Sassooning for Evening, part of the innovative HighHair Collection which I produced. For full credits and more HighHair, CLICK HERE
CommentRare Vidal Sassoon HighHair Photo – 1980
Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre
This is a color version of the famous Vidal Sassoon HighHair black and white photo with hair by Graham Wren, with the same model. It is rare, not known at all. It was photographed in 1980, as part of the iconic collection, which included this Sassooning for Evening look with crimped hair, half up and half down. “For dreamy nights out,” I said in the press release. For more info, how-to’s, CLICK HERE or for just a few of the best of the 20 HighHair photos archived in the website album, check two pages on Helen’s Blog – CLICK HERE
Hair: Graham Wren, Vidal Sassoon NY, 1980 … Makeup: Ted Nadal … Opalescent Dress/Background: Avram … Model: Danielle … Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre
Concept/Produced by Helen Oppenheim
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Vidal Sassoon HighHair Collage – 1980
Photos: Lorraine Sylvestre … Collage helenoppenheim.com
1980. A memory. Some of the photos from Vidal Sassoon’s famous inspirational influential HighHair Collection. At the time, fashion hair was not high. Having hair rising up on top was new. The concept for this collection was mine and some big talents at the Vidal Sassoon New York Salon in the General Motors Building in NYC helped make it happen. To see each photo bigger, more HighHair, to read the whole story, click HERE
CommentVidal Sassoon’s HighHair Updo – 1980
Photo: Gérard Gentil
This is Tom Principe’s asymmetric up version from the romantic, dreamy and innovative HighHair Collection created in 1980 at the Vidal Sassoon NY Salon.
There was no teasing, two rats were placed inside the hair, which could be worn as high or low as one liked, asymmetric or simply going up high, as here. For more on this, including an Anecdote and more HighHair inspiration from the famous collection, click here
Hair: Tom Principe, Vidal Sassoon NY, 1980 … Makeup: Ted Nadel … Clouds: Ansell Adams … Art: Avram … Collage: Jan Kosarin of Norman Kosarin, Inc. … Model: Vivienne … Photo: Gérard Gentil
Concept/Produced by Helen Oppenheim
CommentVidal Sassoon’s HighHair, Mimi – 1980
Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre
Do you know your hair history? Soft waves and curls rose above it all for cloud-like, romantic, dreamy looks in this HighHair version by A. Vernon Keach, Vidal Sassoon NY, in 1980.
“Hair will be high on top for the 80s,” predicted Vidal Sassoon, and it was. Hair had not been high for an era and HighHair, a new direction for Sassoon, influenced hairstyles world-wide in the 80s and beyond. Months of experimentation went into this Collection photographed with a surreal theme. The innovative cuts and perms were done with the clients heads upside down. There was not teasing. I invented the name HighHair, later much copied!
For full credits, how-to’s, more versions, anecdotes, go to HairThen, Vidal Sassoon, HighHair on www.helenoppenheim.com
Hair: A. VernonKeach, Vidal Sassoon, NY, 1980 … Perm: Allie Galizia and Edward Moore … Clouds: Ansell Adams … Art: Avram … Model: Mimi Young… Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre … Concept/Produced by Helen Oppenheim
CommentVidal Sassoon HighHair Illusion – 1980
Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre
This HighHair style was part of Sassooning for Evening conceived to be a totally new direction for Vidal Sassoon in 1980!!!
The illusion of HighHair, the height of style, was achieved by pulling the model’s own hair through the center of a matching false hair-covered ornament place high on top of the head – made by Avram, who also made the cloud cube as part of the surreal/cloud theme of the collection. For more, HairThen, Vidal Sassoon, HighHair on helenoppenheim.com
Hair/Cloud Cube: Avram, Vidal Sassoon NY, 1980 … Makeup: Ted Nadel … Clouds: Ansell Adams … Model: Oksana Dykyj … Photo: Lorraine Sylvestre … Concept/Produced by Helen Oppenheim
CommentMagritte-Inspiired Vidal Sassoon HighHair – 1980
Photos: Lorraine Sylvestre
The Museum of Modern Art will be inspiring the fashion and hair worlds with Magritte: The Mystery Of The Ordinary, 1926 -1938, the first exhibition to focus exclusively on René Magritte’s breakthrough surrealist years. The exhibition opens in New York on September 28, 2013, before traveling to Houston and Chicago in 2014.
Magritte inspired Vidal Sassoon New York In 1980 – with these versions of romantic, dreamy HighHair, by Graham Wren, photographed with some Magritte-like clouds and curtains, designed by Avram. Apologies to René Magritte’s “Le Beau Monde” (“High Society”) created in 1960 (not the exhibition’s time frame) but we thought any Magritte is motivational. For more surreal hair, go to HairThen, Vidal Sassoon, HighHair, on www.helenoppenheim.com
Hair: Graham Wren, Vidal Sassoon, 1980 … Makeup: Ted Nadel … Dress: Patrick Wise … Model: Vyctoria … Photos: Lorraine Sylvestre … Art Director: Avram … Concept/Produced by Helen Oppenheim
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