Wild Hair on Website – 1983-2012
Photo: Miguel Reveriego, Eddie Collins, Archivo LLongueras, Lance Staedler, Helen Oppenheim
There’s some wild and wonderful hair archived on this website. over 5,000 photos and many are not to be missed. Time to explore. Here are just some of the photos to inspire you. 1. Peter Gray’s 2012 fantasy for L’Oréal Professional, in a WorldGreats album …. 2. Ezel’s 2012 black wig over blonde hair, also in a WorldGreats album … Salvador Dali, and his famous mustache, and how it stayed up, also his hair in rollers and Lluis Llongueras doing his hair, as he did for 30 years, in an Icons album … Linda Mason’s impressionistic face art, hair Dwight Miller for Zotos, 1983, in a ThisThat album/The Mix … The pink wig by Julien D’Ys is from the Anglo Mania exhibition at the Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006, in a Museum album.
Photos: 1. Miguel Reveriego … 2. Eddie Collins … 3. Archivo Llongueras … 4. Lance Staedler … 5. Helen Oppenheim
Comment“Punk Mozart” Head by Julien D’Ys @ Met – 2017
Photo: Helen Oppenheim
“Punk Mozart” is how the amazing hair artist Julien D’Ys describes his masterpiece head treatment for the Rei Kawakubo Met Museum not to be missed exhibition featuring the inspirational fashion art by Commes des Garçons designs which opened in the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4 and will continue to September 4. This is just one of the awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping “hair” heads by Julien D’Ys on show at the exhibition, this one from the Clothes/Not Clothes: Fact/Fiction gallery. To see a few more and some of the fashions, click HERE
Head Treatment: Julien D’Ys … Photo: Helen Oppenheim
CommentThink Punk – For 2013
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute exhibition due May 9 to August 11, 2013 is going to make punk hot again. Not that it ever really went away. With buzzed ‘dos already happening, I dread to think how some punk hair cuts will ruin many a lovely face!
Fashion is another story. Punk. Chaos to Couture will examine punk’s impact from its birth In the 1970s through its continuing influence on high fashion today.
There will be approximately 100 designs for men and women, by all the usual suspects. Original punk garments from the mid-1970s will be juxtaposed with recent, directional fashion showing how pailettes were replaced by safety pins, feathers by razor blades, bugle beads by studs. Presented as an immersive multimedia, multisensory experience, the clothes will be animated with period music videos and soundscaping audio techniques.
Organized thematically, gallery sections will include Rebel Heroes, Pavillions of Anarchy and Elegance, Punk Couture, D.I.Y. Style, La Mode Destroy, all organized by my favorite Curator, Andrew Bolton. No news yet on who will create the hair. Meanwhile, here’s some punk from the Met Museum’s 2006 Anglo Mania Exhibition with hair concoctions by the great Julien d’Ys to get your inspirational juices going..
Photo: © Helen Oppenheim
For more on the amazing Anglo Mania Exhibition, go the Museums on helenoppenheim.com –
and watch out punk influences everywhere…