Gia By Sahag French Vogue Cover – 1980
Photo: © Aldo Fallai
This is the famous model Gia Carangi on the cover of the August 1980 issue of French Vogue. Hair by the legendary John Sahag, John Sahag Workshop. Giorgio Armani also used this image in promotional ads in Vogue Italia and American Vogue. The tragic life of Gia was portrayed by Angelina Jolie in a made for TV motion picture, and she won the Best Actress Award at the Golden Globes for her performance. For more of Sahag’s famous editorials, click HERE
Hair: John Sahag, John Sahag Workshop, 1980 … Makeup: Joey Mills … Photo: © Aldo Fallai
CommentRare Photo, Avedon, Sahag, Brooke – 1988
Photo: © Richard Avedon
Rare Richard Avedon photo of Brooke Shields with curly hair, by John Sahag, John Sahag Workshop, 1988. No idea if this an Avedon collage or if someone unknown did it with three photos. I have a feeling it is a collage by Avedon, but I am not sure. For more of the lovely Brooke Shields, clck HERE
Hair: John Sahag, John Sahag Workshop, 1988 … Model: Brooke Shields … Photo: © Richard Avedon
CommentBrooke Shields Curly Curls – 1988
Photo: Richard Avedon
Rare Richard Avedon photo I have not seen before, Brooke Shields in 1988 with curly curls. Hair by the legendary John Sahag, John Sahag Workshop. For five more photos of beautiful Brooke by Sahag archived on the website like no other, click HERE
Hair: John Sahag, John Sahag Workshop, 1988 … Model: Brooke Shields … Photo: Richard Avedon
Comment“Star Appeal” Cindy Crawford Vogue – 1987
Photo: Irving Penn
This is fun fabulous ’80s hair by the legendary John Sahag from a “Star Appeal” editorial in American Vogue featuring SuperModel Cindy Crawford wearing hairpieces placed for art – under a hat! (Sahag always wanted to “score” so hats and makeup stories didn’t faze him! He just came up with amazing ideas, like this.) This was the first of the 4 page editorial photographed by Irvin Penn for “The Color Report” with makeup by Kevyn Aucoin, other pages featured more of Cindy, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington. To view, click HERE
Hair: John Sahag, John Sahag Workshop, 1987 … Makeup: Kevyn Aucoin … Model: Cindy Crawford … Photo: Irvin Penn
CommentJohn Sahag’s Birthday, January 2 – 2017
Photo: © Lawrence Ivy for New York Magazine
January 2. We remember John Sahag’s birthday. The legendary John Sahag is missed. Sadly missed. There was no one like him. His work has stood the test of time, not dated. He was tomorrow’s man, into the 21st century in the 20th. How easy it is to forget that he did this first, before anyone else. and that, and that too.
Here he is standing proudly with some of his work in a photo for a New York Magazine article on the launch of his first Workshop, late 1985. For more about John Sahag The Man, click this album
Photo: © Lawrence Ivy
CommentRemembering John Sahag June 15 – 2016
Photos: © Helen Oppenheim. Collage by Pascalain Gianello
I like to remember John Sahag (1952-2005) as in this photo I took of him when he beamed at me during a Wednesday Night Creative Evening with his “kids” in 1996. June 15 2016 is eleven years since he left us, far too soon. This collage is by Pascalain Gianello and you can see many more collages of Sahag, some by me, many by Gianello, the King of Collages, if you click HERE
Photo: © Helen Oppenheim … Collage: Pascalain Gianello
CommentSahag Hair Ready for Fashion Shows – 1996+97
Photos Top Row: © Helen Oppenheim. Bottom Row: © David Webber
Hair history is here. Check out the hair ready for Fashion Shows by John Sahag, his dedicated Workshop Teams, and all the hair staff, who worked day and night (often way past midnight) weekends and their days off to make it all happen. “Haute coiffure” hand-sewn 100% human hair pieces by the hundreds, Sahag-style. The hairpieces were spread out all over the place – on trestle tables, radiators, and the floor of the Workshop for days, even when the salon was busy with clients. This is why Sahag called his salon a Workshop.
Top Row: Hairpieces in color way before their time for high fashion shows. These were some of hundreds made for the Gen Art “Fresh Faces” Fall 1997 New York Fashion Week Show. To see models wearing the pieces from this “tour de force” show, click HERE
Bottom Row: Some of the 157 human hair pieces in 30-40 different textures created for 33 models at the Issey Miyake Spring 1996 Paris Fashion Week Show. To see the models wearing the “modern, young, playful, abstract hairstyles” click HERE
Photos Top Row: © Helen Oppenheim. Bottom Row: © David Webber
CommentTotally Modern Evening Sahag Updo – 1996
Photo: Diego Uchitel
Who says you can’t dress up a short bob to a wondrous evening look, as great for the Holidays in 2015 as it was in 1996, when the legendary John Sahag, always “tomorrow’s man” created this glorious pile up of hair on top of a totally modern short bob for Salon News, a Fairchild Publication for beauty professionals, no longer publishing.
The colorific color, by Albert Narcise, then with John Sahag ( now found on AlbertColor.com ) was also extraordinary, and totally modern. He worked with Sahag, who wanted “a bold contrast” which was finally achieved after 11 pm at night when John, who gave no other direction, suddenly said – “that’s it!” You can read all about it and see the side view of the bob which made the cover, if you click HERE
Hair: John Sahag, John Sahag Workshop, 1996 … Hair Color: Albert Narcisse, John Sahag Workshop … Makeup: Linda Mason … Model: Mila Watson/Company … Jacket: Roberto Cavalli … Beauty/Fashion Editor: Jacqueline Berthelot … Photo (Detail): © Diego Uchitel for Salon News.
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