Trend Alert. ’80s Big Shoulders – 1984

Posted by on Mar 19, 2018 in Helen's Blog | 0 comments

 Trend Alert. '80s Big Shoulders - 1984

Photo: © Irving Penn

Trend Alert.  Wide shoulders. As worn in the ’80s are returning.  One can feel it. Maybe not mainstream this year but watch out for more next year. This was first posted in 2016.  I post it again. It takes time, and now Marc Jacobs and others showed big shoulders on the Fall 2018 runways.  Meanwhile, check out this Vogue 1984 editorial with big shoulders, worn with hair by WorldGreat Ezel.    Check out all his work from the ’80s to the present, especially the hoot of a video at the end of Photo 8, click HERE

Hair: Ezel, Bumble and Bumble, 1984 … Makeup: François Nars … Model: Kim Williams
Photo: © Irving Penn for Vogue Magazine.

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Trend Alert. Hair Orbits Again- 1969

Posted by on Feb 18, 2018 in Helen's Blog | 0 comments

Trend Alert. Hair Orbits Again- 1969

Photos: Bob Fisher. Collage by helenoppenheim.com

Do you know your hair history?  ’60s hairstyle orbits in  2018.  Again. This look was very popular in the late ’60s.  Similar looks were done by many, first popularized by Vidal Sassoon, but I prefer this one by Charles Booth owner of La Coupe Salons from 1967 to early 90s and introduced as The Orbit in 1969, the year the US first  landed on the moon.  Now, Redken’s Guido has designed his version for Marc Jacobs F/W New York Fashion Week Show, colorized for the 21st century by Josh Woods, so there is another trend  alert for the look, which could catch on this time. It’s not flattering to all, but is for some, as it was here for Keitha McLean, at the time the Fashion and Beauty Editor of The Montreal Star, later  a reporter at WWD, and still  later the first Editor in Chief of Miss Chatelaine now known as Flare in Toronto.   Face on, it was just a cap of hair, with a heavy round smooth fringe rising up to a soft point in the middle of the forehead. It was cut  right from the crown and the hair orbited  all around.  The back was short and the  cap graduated to a “V” on both sides. For more details and a longer  version CLICK HERE

Hair: Charles Booth, La  Coupe Montreal, 1969 … Model: Keitha McLean … Photos: Bob Fisher, ARB

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’60s Space-Age Hair Orbits Again – 2016

Posted by on Feb 8, 2016 in Helen's Blog | 0 comments

'60s Space-Age Hair Orbits Again – 2016

Photo: © Bob Fisher, ARB

TREND ALERT.  Gucci have a similar style to this in their current ad campaign. I first posted on the trend in early in 2015. Which leads me to think something similar to this very popular hair shape from the late ’60s could well return. This version was by Charles Booth, of La Coupe in 1969. We called it The Orbit and it was inspired by the 1969 US Landing on on the Moon. Face on, the space-age hair style was just a cap of hair, with a heavy round smooth fringe rising up to a soft point in the middle of the forehead. It was cut right from the crown and the hair orbited all around. The cap graduated to a long, wide “V’ on both sides. For more, an anecdote, another version, click HERE

Hair: Charles Booth, La Coupe, Montreal … Model: Keitha McLean, Fashion Beauty Editor, The Montreal Star … Photo: Bob Fisher, ARB

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